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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
what needs to happen per pc and user to run only an infomaker report ( general users do no create/edit and are not licensed )
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  greg nichols replied 2 years ago
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if a licensed user creates a report what licensing is required for a general user to run   does it need to be saved in the executable package how does the database connection work within an executable? for sql they are in a role...
  1.  License
greg nichols greg nichols
  1. InfoMaker
PS2021 Session creation failed.
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Working on a POC for a client.  It works on localhost, but when we deploy to a remote MS Server 2019 w IIS, we are getting a session create error.  Followed the instructions in the documentation and we're able to deploy from PB 2021.  The site looks ...
Kevin Ridley Kevin Ridley
  1. PowerServer
PB 2017 R3 - Github Source Control Issue
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi Team,  Good Day!   I am using PB 2017 R3 version and I am trying to connect the Source control as GitHUB. I could able to create the local repository, but I couldn't able to configure my Remote repository URL in PB (while doing the action Push/...
Venugopal Rajagopal Venugopal Rajagopal
  1. PowerBuilder
Change font size in PB IDE
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Konstantin Goldobin replied 2 years ago
5 replies
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the size of the font that PB IDE is using in its main and popup menus, dialog windows (e.g. any Options window, any window in the datawindow painter like Filter, Sort, Update properties, etc, etc)...
  1.  IDE
  2.  PowerBuilder
Konstantin Goldobin Konstantin Goldobin
  1. PowerBuilder
Supports Windows 11
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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What version of PowerBuilder supports Windows 11?
  1.  Windows OS
James Arnold James Arnold
  1. PowerBuilder
Assertion Failure when migrating to PB 2021
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Everything was going OK... got my app migrated and a few things debugged.  I'm using the latest PFC files.  Was trying to debug an error when running the app from with the IDE, I decided to just copy my old pfc extension libraries and re-migrate.  T...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
'Input string was not in a correct format' getting this error while calling RPC from Powerserver Application.
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Marc Wietscher replied 2 years ago
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We are progressing with our POC and hit an issue with an Oracle RPC call. This issue occurs in the initial screen of our main application processing and this is stalling our POC progression. When we call this particular RPC, we are getting an error ...
Suvendu Dey Suvendu Dey
  1. PowerServer
How to get PrintScreen to print the secondary monitor
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
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PB 2019 R3 2728 This seems like a dumb question but I cannot get the PrintScreen function to print the screen of a secondary monitor (or third, etc).  It only prints the primary.  What am I missing? Chris Craft
Christopher Craft Christopher Craft
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue while running web application from Appeon PowerServer 2020.
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Hi. We had an old powerserver (Appeon for Powerbuilder v.2015) installed in a client. They had an web application running. Recently we decided to upgrade to PowerServer 2020. Everything went ok. We then redeployed the application using Powerbuilder...
  1.  Appeon Xcelerator Plug-in
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  PowerServer Web
Andreas Mykonios Andreas Mykonios
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
How to sign EXE and PBDs ?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Dan Harrel replied 2 years ago
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Hello,Recently, one of our client did a security audit of our application.As a result, he now wants us to sign the EXE and the PBD libraries.We are currently using PowerBuilder 2019 build 2170 and we saw on a previous post that signing of EXE's is cu...
  1.  .EXE
  2.  PBD
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Christophe Feyte Christophe Feyte
  1. PowerBuilder
Theme in PB 2021
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hi I use the theme and have all objects customized with it. Now I have a Datawindow object dw_cust in the Windows w_customer. Here the datawindow should not be customized with the theme. How can I set this in the JSON file? How can I exclude object...
André Rust André Rust
  1. PowerBuilder
DropDownDatawindow(dddw) disappears after retrieve
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Mohan Gawade replied 2 years ago
6 replies
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I have 4 DropDownDatawindow (dddw) in a screen, all retrieved and shared using ShareData () in a single/same datawindow object . Out of 4 the 3 DropDownDatawindow works as expected but for the account datawindow the data are not getting display. But ...
Mohan Gawade Mohan Gawade
  1. PowerBuilder
Problem with mail
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Hi, I have an application in android 10 and when I need to send a mail with an attach works great, but I have the same application in android 11 and when i want to send a mail with an attach there is an error because gmail application have not access...
Jesus Perez Jesus Perez
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Static hyperlinks go to IE despite our setting our laptop default to MS Edge
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Good morning,We are currently using PB2017 R3 (upgrading in 2 months to PB21) and we are having an issue with all URLs defaulting to IE. We are using Windows 10 and I have Edge set as my default. If I click a link within MS Teams, it opens in Edge. I...
Steven Turner Steven Turner
  1. PowerBuilder
Different tooltips for different DW radio button values
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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I have a radio button column in a DW with 3 options. I'd like to add a tooltip that explained each option as you hovered over it, but as far as I can tell there is only one tooltip for the entire column. Explaining all 3 options in one tooltip would ...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
Can I run both PB 2019 and PB 2021 on same machine?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Can I download and install PB 2021 without it affecting my PB 2019 installation? My license renews in May... does my license let me run both versions?  I have several customers using the most recent app built with PB 2019 R3 and release last Septembe...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
SQL Server database -3 code - what does it mean?
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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We are currently trying to convert all of our code from Sybase to SQL Server database (v19) using MSOLEDBSQL SQL Server database driver v18.5   Our latest critical issue is a datawindow update that is returning a -3 from a datawindow update. We tr...
Terry Schaff Terry Schaff
  1. PowerBuilder
The "IsNull()" function is not working
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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UPDATE:     FYI:  This works:boolean        lb_validstring           ls_columnlb_valid = IsNull (adw_object) IF (NOT (lb_valid)) THEN RETURN                    // --- the lb_valid value is FALSE at this point, as it should be.lb_valid = IsValid (adw_...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
SQL create scripts for EZ Order
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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I am following the PB Tutortials for PB 2017. I am having a problem running the applications cause it does not have the database for the examples. I do not want to use the SQL Anywhere and would like to get the scripts to create the tables and suppor...
Jeff Hamilton Jeff Hamilton
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerServer - DataWindow Error
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Rajaram Palanisamy replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Hello, PowerServer deployed application not able to find DataWindow objects and displaying below error.  Window objects and User Objects are loading fine.  Please let me know how to fix this issue.  Thanks.  Files are present under below folder ...
Rajaram Palanisamy Rajaram Palanisamy
  1. PowerServer

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