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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 2 weeks 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.   :) 
            Send mails with Oauth2 authentication
- How-to
- Last updated 7 months ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 7 months ago
Hi,
Starting in September, Office 365 will no longer use simple authentication for sending emails. It will use OAuth2 instead. Is there a way to do this in PB2019?
Thanks
            Hello Team,
We are currently using PowerBuilder 2022 (Version 1878). In our application, we have a DataWindow column with the tag field set in the following format:TooltipTooltip description/Tooltip. During runtime, the tooltip description was getti...
                    
            Hello everyone,
I have a question regarding UTF-8 characters.
For context, I'm working on a PowerBuilder application which uses Chilkat to get mails from an adress to import attached files into our database.
However, we problems when we get mails ...
            Native PDF Subreports
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- Issue
- Last updated 8 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 7 months ago
Hello Powerbuilders,
I build a report with several subreports which runs well all the time. This report has several pages for each customer.
Since last Version R3 3397 I have some scary things happen generating and printing a report:
When I retrie...
                    
            Error on dynamic data window with big amount of data
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- Advice
- Last updated 8 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 months ago
Hi all,
On legacy application, I need to create datawindow dynamicly, based on various data, when the data reach specific number of records, the creation of the dynamic data window fail.
In other words, While tring create dynamic data window this w...
                    
            Issue with Debugging Across Multiple Functions, UserObjects, Parent Objects.
- How-to
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 months ago
Dear Experts
When debugging, I set a breakpoint, and when the code is executed, the cursor correctly stops at the breakpoint. Debugging works fine as long as the entire process occurs within a single page. However, if the code references other funct...
            Force SaveAs(Text!) to always use dots for decimals
- How-to
- Last updated 7 months ago
- David Peace replied 7 months ago
Hello,
The SaveAs method of a DataWindow or DataStore, when called with SaveAsType Text!, saves decimals using the decimal separator currently set in the Windows regional settings. What would be a good way to ensure that a dot is always used, regard...
                    
            PB25 title of the GIT branch
- Advice
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 7 months ago
In the new version 2025 do you see the location of the title branch-a somewhere on the PB bar? If not, it would be great if it was immediately visible :-)
            PDFDocument returns -49 when importing some PDFs, and is fine for others
- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- John Fauss replied 7 months ago
Hi All,
I'm using the PDFDocument object to save a client invoice datawindow as a PDF, and then append supporting documentation to that PDF. The supporting documentation is stored in various records in the same database.
It worked in testing, but i...
                    
            Datawindow.Modify returns error for Print Preview
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- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 months ago
Hi There to the PowerBuilder Guru's -
So, I have a window with a DataWindow in it that is run for all the Reports in the application that I work on. The Datawindow (called dw_report) is a composite DW and has a report DW embedded (dw_rpt) that looks...
            PB 2019 R3 IDE won't open
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Tillman replied 7 months ago
Hello,
All of a sudden my PB 2019 IDE stopped opening. I click the icon in the Windows menu, the splash window opens, and then PB's icon just sits in the task bar. Nothing happens when I click it, and when I hover the mouse pointer over it, an empty...
                    
            NativePDF not handling Newspaper Columns correctly
- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 months ago
PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1892
I have a fairly complex report with 31 nested reports and a similar number of computed fields.
The report has these settings:
Newspaper Columns = 2
Export = Distill!
Paper Orientation = Landscape!
The report is used...
            Looking for the runtime path when using built in Kestrel locally.
- How-to
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 7 months ago
Hi! I'm running PB 2022 R3 build 3397. My question is about the environment when running a local Kestrel server in development.
I have deployed files that Kestrel is not finding. Can anyone point me to the runtime path when using this?
Thanks!
            Getting an Error "Line1 Column 27: Incorrect Syntax" when try to change the Print Preview as No
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- How-to
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Rajesh Kanna replied 7 months ago
Hi,
Id appreciate your guidance on this.
The data object has been created with 85 columns spanning the page. When previewing the data object, the columns are displayed horizontally, with a group of columns appearing on one page and the remainin...
            Git Merge is not merging code correctly and leaving code out
- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Benjamin Gaesslein replied 7 months ago
Hi All,
Ive tried searching here in the community and nothing came up.
I use TortioseGit with PowerBuilder to handle Git processes for PowerServer projects with 1 other developer.
I recently did a merge from the other developers branch into my bra...
                    
            Connect Powerbuilder to PostgreSQL database without DSN
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- How-to
- Last updated 8 months ago
- Sivaprakash BKR replied 7 months ago
We are switching the database for our application from SqlAnywhere to PostgreSQL. I am having a hard time building the connection string to the database without using the DSN in the registry. I am open to using an ODBC connection, but I would prefer ...
            Powerbuilder application can't access dll folder
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- David Peace replied 7 months ago
Hi all,
We have a deployed application running under PB 2022 R3 Build 3289.
In some Windows environments (Windows 11, Windows Server 2022), the application can't access the dll folder and this leads to the suspension of the application in the task ...
            Unable to connect to named SQL instance
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- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- David Xiong @Appeon replied 7 months ago
We have a default instance and a named instance of SQL Server on our laptops. default instance is SQL 2019 and named instance is SQL 2022. When we go into the database setup for Powerserver it works fine if we select the default instance but when we ...
            Dear community
I was reading documentation for PB2019 and it includes the GIT merge option, now I am in 2022 R2 and I cannot find the option
Is there something missing in my configuration? or it was deprecated?
How would the merge should be handle...
            I'm trying to test drive PowerServer.
We have many applications but universally we use ODB ODBC to connect to either Oracle or SQL Server because our customer base uses both these databases and we decided to use ODBC so that we need only one set of ...
                    
            
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