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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 1 year 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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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Get references to different instances of Sub-report within a Composite report
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 hour ago
Hi there PowerBuilder gurus -
So, here is the problem statement. I have a composite Datawindow which has 2 simple sub-reports within it
Composite Datawindow: The composite datawindow is retrieved using a Stored Procedure and has the columns company...
Bad performance on Windows Server with PB22R2 app
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
Hi there,
I have received reports that our customers have bad performance with our PB22 app on Windows Server 16, 19 and 22.
Bad performance meaning that navigating the app in general takes a lot longer than usual. Apparently this was not a probl...
PB 11.5 crashing due to OLEACC.DLL interaction
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
Hi.
I'm having an issue in an old application built with PB 11.5.1 Build 4608.
The application is crashing due to some interaction with OLEACC.DLL. Apparently it has something to do do with DDDW's, but not sure about that. This started happening ab...
Opening & save large objects has become very timeconsuming
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
Hello,Im a 20+ years professional Powerbuilder developer thats experiencing slow object opening saving in Appeon PB on large projects.Adaptive Server Anywhere as backend DB and win 10 as OS.Opening, changing and saving menu objects or other large ob...
Confluence API from Powerbuilder
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Brage Mogstad replied 2 hours ago
We'd like to use PB to retrieve some data from a database page in confluence (atlassin sw).Any ideas on how to get me started would be greatly appreciated.
Perhaps a HTTP client envelope would do the trick? Something in the lines of:ls_url = "someth...
Hello,We're currently using PB2019 and OLE to send emails from our app. However, we'd really like to offer our customers the option of using the new MS Outlook email client instead of the old one, as it is way faster and less resource-demanding on cl...
Hi, again.
Is there a way to programmatically remove the series axis of a datawindow graph control?
Thanks in advance for answering!
Can you teach me about Update function of DataWindow ? ( wireless LAN communication response delay )
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- Last updated 13 hours ago
- Tatsuya Hayama replied 11 hours ago
Hi, Appeon Team,
Can you teach me about Update function of DataWindow ?
Our company recently made the switch from wired LAN communication to wireless LAN communication.
After that, the Update function took a lot of time to run.
Is there a sol...
Hi Community,
My application uses a 3rd party COM object - Micro Focus Content Manager COM SDK.
In this case it's the "TRIMSDK.Database" COM object.
After updating the product from version 10 to version 24, PowerBuilder can no longer access even t...
PB 2025 and GIT not using .gitignore
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Alfredo Santibanez replied 12 hours ago
Dear Friends
I am testing the migration to PB2025 (3683) so far without problems, except when moving to GIT.
Create a new folder with app required files
Create new Workspace (not yet a solution)
Add targets and they were migrated
...
Can you freeze a datawindow grid column like excel - not using the split scroll??
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 12 hours ago
We have a customer that wants the datawindow grid to allow for us to freeze the first column without depending on the split scroll?
Other than trying to have two shared datawindows side by side and trying to synchronize scrolling - is their a better...
PB2025 beta : opensheet issue
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- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Rob Stevens replied 15 hours ago
Hi,
Opening a main window within an mdi frame with opensheet() doesn't display anything. However, it appears in the opened windows list in the MDI frame's menu.
The same window is displayed when opened with open().
Running on Windows 11 Enterprise...
Single Sign On In Power Builder
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- How-to
- Last updated 20 hours ago
- Ashok Kumar replied 18 hours ago
Has anyone implemented Single Sign On in PowerBuilder? Please share steps if yes.
How to copy permissions from one user to another in PowerBuilder 2019 R3
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- John Fauss replied 1 day ago
Hi everyone,
I'm new to PowerBuilder and working on an application built with PowerBuilder 2019 R3. I have a window called w_xxx where I can see a list of programs and their associated users. For each program, I can see which users have permission a...
to change backgroud color in datawindow
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 day ago
- YuSeok Kim replied 1 day ago
I would like to know how to change the background color of dw_2.(ll_row, 'unpick_qty') when some condition is met
Pipeline doing INSERT instead of UPDATE
- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Konstantin Goldobin replied 1 day ago
Hello,
I'm using a pipeline object with the operation set to "Update - Update/Insert Rows", which I understand should update records in the target database that match the selected key criteria values selected from the source DB. However, instead of ...
2025 PowerServer Cloud App Launcher Permitted URLs
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi
I see in 2025 there have been security enhancements so that the cloud app launcher is locked down to only launch appeon applications. One of the enhancements is around allowing a list of permitted urls in the apprun.json - which I assume is used ...
Powerbuilder 2025 beta lot of errors C0203 Exception error
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 day ago
We are trying the latest beta of Powerbuilder 2025 and the compilation fails with a lot of erros like this
---------- Compiler: Errors (10:41:04)c:\repositories\XXX\uo_object.sru(102,5): uo_object.of_function(25,5): Error C0203: Exception type 'SM_...
Recommend a spell checker for Powerbuilder 2022?
- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Our current spell checker is from Visual Components is not working with the migration to PB 2022. Looking suggestions on a replacement spell checker or how to setup Visual Components to work with PB 2022?
CLOBS >32k from oracle stored procedures and PB 22r3
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- New
- How-to
- Last updated 6 days ago
- James Levin replied 2 days ago
We're running PowerBuilder 22r3 32-bit, Oracle 19c, and ORA database interface and it would be great to support CLOB 32k in and out of Oracle Procedures/Functions. is there a way to support this?
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