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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 8 months ago
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
  1. PowerBuilder
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerserver app connected to Oracle fails or times out
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Håvard Heide replied 3 years ago
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We have compiled out application to Powerserver and it works (mostly), but  after starting App from webbrowser (or shortcut) it times out - or fails (see errors below). Motly I get the first error, but sometimes the second. Any ideas ? I have trie...
  1.  32-bit
  2.  Database
  3.  Error
  4.  PowerServer Toolkit
Håvard Heide Håvard Heide
  1. PowerServer
icon missing after export data
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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hi  after program export to excel. the program icon missing. it seem need fine tune some configure file .  would you have advise before export excel after export to excel , icon missing       
william yau william yau
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How to delete temporary directory
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Brad Mettee replied 3 years ago
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Hi folks, My app creates a temporary directory then adds an unspecified number of pdf reports to it.  When I'm done, I want to delete the whole directory.  RemoveDirectory() requires the directory to be empty.  FileDelete() requires the file name. ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
Manage licenses
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
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Hi, we need to edit our licenses data. Unfortunately, no one knows how to do this. We don't have a user with administrator rights either. What do I have to do to get to the right page?How can I register as administrator to make changes later?More inf...
André Rust André Rust
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Save problem through DataStore command .Update()
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
5 replies
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Hi guys, We have a very strange problem. Our big application written on PowerBuilder, C#, VB and works with Oracle and Mss databases. The save process to database going by command dscontrol.Update() through array of datastores control. The problem ...
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Irina Tokar Irina Tokar
  1. PowerBuilder
PB license issue (appeon website issue?)
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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Hi. The appeon website indicates that I have not purchased any products. It will not allow me to download any products. We should have 4 powerbuilder IDE and 7 infomaker licenses.  The PB IDE indicates that I have 200+ days remaining on my license. ...
George Hannah George Hannah
  1. PowerBuilder
Runtime Path for SOAP Web Service on 2019 R3
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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With the change of the Runtime Path in 2019 R3 I am wondering if the SOAP Web Service has the same feature.  I do not want to add the '..\Runtime 19.2.0.2728' to the System Path.  Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Chris Craft
Christopher Craft Christopher Craft
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PowerBuilder Version Upgradation/ Reverse Engineering
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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This is regarding one of the PowerBuilder applications that I support. This application is based on an older version of PowerBuilder, probably 6/6.5. We need to upgrade the application to a supportable and stable version of PowerBuilder, preferably v...
  1.  PowerBuilder
Swaty Priyadarshini Swaty Priyadarshini
  1. PowerBuilder
How to get code coverage of unit test process
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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  Is there any way by which we can get the code coverage in unit test process. What I need is, say I call a function and then I can get no of lines executed in our process, and some statistics with line of code executed/not-executed, percentage cov...
  1.  Automated Testing
  2.  Automation
Kumar Rahul Kumar Rahul
  1. PowerBuilder
SRD Character Encoding
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  CJ Lai replied 3 years ago
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Hi all I have a question about the character encode types for (exported) DWObject srd files. I opened 3 exported SRD files in Notepad++ straight from my application's target. What I noticed is those 3 files are of 2 different character encoding - A...
CJ Lai CJ Lai
  1. PowerBuilder
Git - Connect to Workspace fails
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Environment: PB 2019 R2 Beta; Git; Github account with SSO enabled. Hello - I get this Login error,"Failed to perform the specified operation. Please make sure you can connect to the server repo" while i am trying to connect to a workspace on Github...
  1.  Git
Balu Krishnasamy Balu Krishnasamy
  1. Beta Testing
Tunneling Feature in PowerBuilder
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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It would be nice to have a tunneling feature in PowerBuilder. If you can access the database through tunneling, you can solve the C/S security issue. Currently, tunneling is solved using plink.    
Sang Chul Song Sang Chul Song
  1. PowerBuilder
PBNI SMTP control
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hello, PB 2021.1288 I have issue with PBNI SMTP control from Topwiz, Roland Smith. If I select to send email as HTML my attachment is not attached to mail. Receiver gets email where in the body is added name of file which should be attached but no...
  1.  PBNI
  2.  SMTP
TOMAZ KRALJ TOMAZ KRALJ
  1. PowerBuilder
.NET Framework version used by PB2021?
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kevin Ridley replied 3 years ago
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Which version of the .NET framework does PB 2021 use.  Is it 4.5?
Kevin Ridley Kevin Ridley
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Rich Text Printing
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
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Hi, I am using rich text control in a free form datawindow to display text from a database text field previously entered in a separate rich text control on a free form datawindow. So data is entered- then in a separate window the data is viewed. In...
  1.  Rich Text
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerBuilder
Creating PDF/A
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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Hello, how can i create PDF/A with "saveas" in a Datawindowcontrol? i am using Powerbuilder 2019 R2 ?Or what is the best way creating PDF/A Documents from Datawindows? regards Karl
· Baumann · Baumann
  1. PowerBuilder
How to call Power Builder Application in .Net Winform
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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Dear Support Team, I am using the Power Builder 2021 trial version. I have created one Power Builder sample application. Following is the detail information about the application. 1. Created the Workspace 2. Selected "Application" as Target. 3. ...
Satyam Mishra Satyam Mishra
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerClient Deploye Error
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 3 years ago
10 replies
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what is the reson for the below error...   2021-10-27 11:52:10.769 ERROR [2892] Error in detecting the update of the application runtime library files. Error code: 30012021-10-27 11:52:10.769 ERROR [3980] Failed to parse the file "C:\Users\Sha\AppD...
SHAMEEM KAKKAD SHAMEEM KAKKAD
  1. PowerServer
Find current position of cursor(not mouse pointer) in dw column(edit style)
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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How to get position of cursor in edittext style box of datawindow?   I want to open a small dropdown list at current position as I type with . (.dot notation).. I am unable to find cursor position in datawindow column with edit style... Any advise...
B P B P
  1. PowerBuilder
code for application close after x minutens of no activity.
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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Hi   I am looking for a piece of code or function so that my application will close after x minutens of no activity.  Anyone know how to code this Thanks in advanged Cheers Ingmar
Ingmar Thomassen Ingmar Thomassen
  1. PowerBuilder

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