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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 11 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
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Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
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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
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Network proxy for PowerBuilder
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 weeks ago
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Hi, We are running PowerBuilder on a server which does not have direct access to the internet, therefore the license checking fails. Is there any way in PowerBuilder that I can specify to connect to the internet through an outgoing proxy? Regard...
Terje Schjønneberg Terje Schjønneberg
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I tried to call a function on a DLL which written by a VC++, it works fine until that function calling is compeleted, it gets crushed
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 weeks ago
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Hi this function was created before Powerbuilder supports Jsons and http requests, it's about calling a http webservice and return values. I have tried debugged it, what I found that it worked fine until that function was compeleted within VC++. here...
Aditya Kabir Aditya Kabir
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Using domain it user to PowerBuilder Connections
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 weeks ago
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Hi I'm trying to use my domain account to connect to MS-SQL from powerbuilder. I have crated login/user in SQL. I can select rows from a table using isql but I cannot update/insert data. Furthermore when I try do modify a DWs sql I get errors such ...
D Aggelis D Aggelis
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For PowerClient install , when I click "Open the Cloud Launcher" nothing happens
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 weeks ago
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The Powerclient install page is no longer working properly. I'm not sure exactly when this started happening but the "Open the Cloud Launcher" that appears on the top of the web page after you click "Start the Application" no longer launches the ins...
Mike Kennedy Mike Kennedy
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Powerbuilder connectivity Oracle OCI 19c
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 weeks ago
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Hello experts, I am using Powerbuilder 2019R3 with backend database as oracle. Around 50 users use this application. We are able connect to on-premise oracle DB and firewall connections were opened well. After we moved to Oracle OCI and the DB i...
Prabhakar Rathinam Prabhakar Rathinam
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Does PowerServer 2022 supports .NET Core Runtime 9.0.3 and .NET Runtime 9.0.3 ?
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 weeks ago
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We have a PowerServer 2022 application deployed on Windows using IIS. According to the official documentation (PowerServer 2022 supports .NET 6), the supported runtime versions are .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6.0. However, we have installed ASP.NET Core ...
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Gurtej Boparai Gurtej Boparai
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Best approach for using merge and Save
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 weeks ago
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Hi All, We have more than 200 psr files and need to generate pdf based out of them using datastore, Along with this we have a scenario where we need to merge 2 psr’s for each pdf (i.e. 100 pdf files to be created out of 200 psr’s). we are storing t...
Teegala Rajesh Teegala Rajesh
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Hosting PS application
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  VINOD NAIR replied 2 weeks ago
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We are currently hosting our PowerServer application within the Azure datacenter using their "Cloud Service (extended support)" project. However, Microsoft has announced that they will be retiring this project in March 2027, and we need to migrate ou...
VINOD NAIR VINOD NAIR
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Cloud app launcher not loading "pbjson.dll"
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  David Xiong @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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I have a question regarding the automatic downloading and running of the PowerServer application. I have an application that was working fine with PowerBuilder 22.2.0.3356, but then in February, the Cloud App Launcher just stopped working? I have n...
David Motty David Motty
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How to save to PDF when I change the Excel Save As Type dropdown to PDF in the Command Prompt window
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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When I use this code inside the Powerbuilder R2023 dw_sel.SaveAs("", Excel!, FALSE) ChangeDirectory(path) A command window appears where I choose the path where I want to save it and, in the Type, drop-down I change Excel to PDF and it did not sav...
Adelys Hernandez Adelys Hernandez
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Blob in InfoMaker Report not shown
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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I have an Infomaker 2019R3. And because bundled with another software exactly this version. I tried to embed a picture into a report using OLEDatabaseBlob. The retrieved table contains a blob field and an id field. The definition fields of blob con...
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Michael Rupp Michael Rupp
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How to integrate a webview C# visual object in Powerbuilder
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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Hello, We have a WebView2 component developped with C# that we intend to use in PowerBuilder. Is it possible ? How can we do this ?Is it accessible the underlying object instance of webview2 behind the webbrowser ? Thanks.
f bodet f bodet
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PNG Data from httpclient
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Stephan Schröpel replied 2 weeks ago
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Hi Powerbuilder Developers I try to get a png from google maps api. It runs well in Postman, in Powerbuilder I get statusCode200 and GetResponseHeader("Content-Type") says 'image/png', GetResponseHeader("Content-Length") is 146991. Good so far, I ...
Stephan Schröpel Stephan Schröpel
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I tried to call a window function in another window, but it hasn't passed the syntax check 
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Aditya Kabir replied 2 weeks ago
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hi here I created a function called wf_findnext in window called w_select_invo, it's a feature for find a value within a datawindow, i'd like to call it in another window when they both opened if dw_1.rowcount()=0 then return long ll_sta...
Aditya Kabir Aditya Kabir
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Difference in working with DropDownList, why?
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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Hi, When returning to dropdown list in the local desktop version (Deploy for desktop application), we saw a row with the selected value. In the cloud version (Deploy for Power Server), it goes to row 0. We don't see a row that was previously selec...
Isabel Ladyshzensky Isabel Ladyshzensky
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Recommend a spell checker for Powerbuilder 2022?
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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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?
Kevin Thompson Kevin Thompson
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PB ignoring 'CallEscape=No' parameter in dbparm
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 weeks ago
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We are using Powerbuilder 17 R3 and using the native odbc driver version 10 for sql server. We are doing migration from Sybase to SQL server. When the datawindows that are having stored procedures as datasource are retrieved, PB still sends the esc...
Sekhar Chitta Sekhar Chitta
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Multiple web_api under one apprun.json
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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Hello, I would like to know if there is a way to have one IIS website where the "web_api" in the apprun.json file can point to two ULRS instead of one? For example, we currently have two websites on the same server, one for the public and one for l...
Andreas Synthesis Andreas Synthesis
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Datawindow.NET
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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I need a replacement for DataWindow.NET. Are there any suggestions?
Mitchell Ryan Mitchell Ryan
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DataWindow.NET DLL Issue in Windows 10
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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Not exactly a PB question, but old DataWindow.NET issue.  At work, there is an old Client/Server VS2008 application written in VB with DataWindow.NET components throughout.  I have successfully migrated the application to VS2017 and can run the EXE o...
Cathy Henderson Cathy Henderson
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