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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 5 months ago
A recent post included some PowerScript code, and I thought I would pass along a tip for pasting code snippets that produces a slightly more readable result than simply pasting code into the website's text editor.
The toolbar contains a button to as...
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
UTF-8 encoding not working in PB for JSON results
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Louis Arena replied 1 month ago
I have a JSON result set that looks like the following.
[
{"id":"7d3bcd00-1fa8-4632-a733-08f504e171d4",
"fileName":"Jim W2.jpg",
"generalComments":"","status":null,"statusDate":null,"migrationStatus":"NEW","uploadedBy":null,"uploadDate":"2026-0...
Preparing for a PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Upgrade: Documentation and Analysis Tools
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 1 month ago
Hi everyone,
Following up on the post I shared some time ago about upgrading legacy PowerBuilder applications, its looking increasingly likely that well move forward with an upgrade to PowerBuilder 2022 R3.
Given how old some of our current version...
Image in a DataWindow row
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 1 month ago
I've been using PowerBuilder forever, but now I'm wanting to do something that seems simple that I haven't done before, but it's looking more complicated than I would have expected. I hope I'm not missing something easy, and embarrassing myself!
Say...
Were migrating an application from a PowerBuilder WinForm target (sybase - 12.5.2) to a Classic PowerBuilder target (Appeon - 2022 R3) and are running into an issue with exception handling when calling a .NET DLL.
In the WinForm target, we were call...
not isnull(object) not working?
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 1 month ago
You can see the code there is supposed to be guarding the dereferencing of g_apss.uf_(something hidden) by having an "if not isnull(g_apss)" first ... and you can see by the value shown by the hover that g_apss is actually null. HOWEVER I keep gettin...
Application Crashing during SaveAs/Print to PDF after Windows 11 Update
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
PB 2022
I wanted to put this out there to see if anyone else might be experiencing this. Customers that have applied the Windows 11 January Update (KB5073455 and KB5074109) are now crashing when they go to do a SaveAs or Microsoft Print to PDF. The ...
Camara HikVision ALPR
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 1 month ago
Hello everyone, I'd like to know if anyone has been in this situation. I have a HikVision camera, model 2CD7A26G0. This camera can read license plates, and I imagine it has web services to retrieve the list of read plates and/or add/delete plates fro...
Nested reports slow to open
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 1 month ago
Hi, I have a window that has 3 reports inside. d_pod_scambio which performs a query to fetch values from the database) then from that it has to connect to its connected ones and goes to report 2 (d_pod_collegati1) which consequently checks if it ha...
PB 2025 R2 Build 6324,SLN, compile with STRG-L saves object automatic.
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- André Monz replied 1 month ago
Hi,i have a small (Solution) Project with PB 2025 R2 Build 6324.When I compile using Ctrl-L in the script editor, the current object is saved automatically.Is this a bug or s feature or something i can change on my own?
Applications.json database password encryption.
- Misc
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Our IT security is asking the method in which the database password encryption is being generated and how the encryption key is being stored? (AES-128, Etc.)
DB2 database connection in powerbuilder 2025
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 month ago
We are upgrading powerbuilder 2017 to Powerbuilder 2028. In Pb2017we used DIR direct connect to connect DB2 database.but in pb2025 direct connect is not available.
How we can establish connection in powerbuilder for DB2 database
Converted to solution format, now can't compile at all
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Richard Hartman replied 1 month ago
I copied the workspace before I did the convert on the copy. So I have an ante-conversion folder and a post-conversion folder.
After converting to the solution format, when I attempt to build (incremental or full) I am getting the following error:...
Runtime issue with Excel export
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I have Powerbuilder 2025 build 3711. Our users have windows 11. This message appears when a user is exporting to xlsx format. How do I direct our technician to update the .Net desktop Runtime on the user's computer? Should we be concerned that by doi...
Buon giorno
Ho bisogno di visualizzare una immagine su una datawindow
Pre requisito
1- L'immagine su database
Soluzione corrente:
1- leggo un blob dal database,
2- lo salvo sul file system
3- poi assegno il path all'oggetti image.
De...
What are you using as a replacement for Appeon Mobile?
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Buck Woolley replied 1 month ago
I would like to know from all out there if your software extended to mobile devices what product do you use to replace Appeon Mobile? Our client are demanding it and I cannot say 'Well Powerbuilder had that capability but it doesnt any more'. I dont ...
Looking for DWNet.Data.DataStoreHost
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
Developing a .net middle tier to move PB business logic to. Having difficutlies with Xunit where models are not parsed as per
https://www.appeon.com/developers/get-help/knowledgebase/no-metadata-datawindow-xxx-found.html
While trying to im...
Identity column in Datawindow+Oracle
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Gimmy Susan replied 1 month ago
Buon giorno
Sto cercando di utilizzare le identity column in Oracle.
Ho creato la tabella:
CREATE TABLE pgmr.gimmy ( id NUMBER GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY INCREMENT BY 1 START WITH 1, nome VARCHAR2(100) );
e successivamente un breve applicativo ...
Hello,
I have updated our PowerBuilder environment from version 2019 to 2025. Generally, the application is running normally, but the menu is not displaying correctly. How can this be resolved?
Please find a screenshot of the issue attached. Any as...
Application crashes in citrix while using the GetFileOpenName function
- Issue
- Last updated 6 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Our application is running on the PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356 32bit version.
Windows version Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 OSBuild 26100.4652.
CITRIX version of the application crashes, when we call the GetFileOpenName function. Desktop and VDI ve...
Detail Band height per row
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 1 month ago
I have a datawindow where I have (text) labels above each column. It is really busy and tall when there are many rows. The text above the column gives the appearance that it is one 'square'. What I want to do, is only display the text above the colum...
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