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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
6 replies
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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
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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12 votes
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
IWA update prompt
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
1589 views
0 votes
Hi, is there any way to stop that constant IWAShell.exe prompt saying an "Update is available.  Install? Yes/No".    If I try Yes it installs but then prompts again!  As it's backwards compatible we are OK with not updating it.   We never want users...
  1.  IWA
  2.  PowerServer Toolkit
Michael Turton Michael Turton
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
mailResolveRecipient returning mailReturnFailure!
  1. Resolved
  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
2 replies
2045 views
0 votes
Hi Guys We have a problem with mailResolveRecipient returning mailReturnFailure! This is code that is 20 years old has worked consistently forever. Clearly it is something environmental that is occurring but the symptoms are as follows: 1. Some us...
David Peace (Powersoft) David Peace (Powersoft)
  1. PowerBuilder
Looking for a buyer for my PB software-based business
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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2 votes
I'm looking for an eventual retirement from my business, which sells two software programs we wrote in PB to small to mid-sized churches and charities. It's a high volume, low price business, so I'm not necessarily looking to get a lot of money for ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
PB Runtime Package Silent Installation
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
2338 views
0 votes
Hi Guys I'm installing the PB Runtime Packge MSI generated using PB2019R3 I'm using the following command for a silent installation: msiexec /qn /a "C:\Powersoft\LCIA_DC\PBCLTRT 19.2.0.2703.msi" /l* "C:\Powersoft\LCIA_DC\msilog.txt" The logfile h...
  1.  PowerBuilder
David Peace (Powersoft) David Peace (Powersoft)
  1. PowerBuilder
Not able to open href link tag from ole browser control.
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hi All We are using Ole web browser control and uninstalled Internet explorer, made edge as default browser. Not able to open href link html tag from ole browser control. Attached sample application for the above mentioned issue. Can you please le...
Prasanth Kalivarapu Prasanth Kalivarapu
  1. PowerBuilder
.Net Datastore add query parameters
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
1398 views
0 votes
Hi  I'm still leaning and trying things with Snapdevelop. I'm tying the generic .Net Datastore and l'm wondering if their is a way of adding DwParameterAttribute dynamically (Where statements). I know this can be done with the Snapobject via  SqlM...
Daniel Richard Daniel Richard
  1. .NET DataStore
Font Style modified by theme
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 3 years ago
1 reply
1365 views
0 votes
Hi Guys is there a way to change font style using theme?   Thanks in advance   Regards
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  Theme
Giuseppe moglia Giuseppe moglia
  1. PowerBuilder
powerbuilder 2019 funcky.dll
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
2 replies
1617 views
0 votes
I migrated PB.7 to appeon 2019 . but I found funcky.dll have some function did not work .   for example . num to dollars function , it output unreadable characters.  would you have any advice    Willaim   public  subroutine  _num2dollars(ref st...
william yau william yau
  1. PowerBuilder
How to print or share pdf documents on iOS?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
0 replies
2261 views
0 votes
Hi, we are using the eon_mobile_webviewex object to display a pdf which is located in the plugin folder of the appeon custom workspace on our ios device (iPad Pro 11" 2nd gen iOS 14.6). We want to print this pdf from the custom workspace or share it...
  1.  Appeon Workspace
  2.  File Access
  3.  iOS
  4.  PDF
  5.  PowerServer Mobile
S&F Datentechnik S&F Datentechnik
  1. PowerServer
Determine if a PowerServer project is being run from the PB IDE
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Michael Connell replied 3 years ago
3 replies
1437 views
0 votes
Hi, We're upgrading a legacy PB application to PowerServer 2021. In the application Handle(GetApplication()) = 0 is used to determine if the application is being run from the PB IDE. Unfortunately when running the new PowerServer project from the ...
Michael Connell Michael Connell
  1. PowerServer
About Optimizing database server performance in PS 2021
  1. Resolved
  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
7 replies
1432 views
0 votes
Hello everyone; Please, could you provide me more details about where or how to configure "Connection Pooling"?. It also seems that the table to configure the timeout in different DBs would be missing in the documentation. https://docs.appeon.com/...
Alex Riofrio Alex Riofrio
  1. PowerServer
PowerServer error connecting to Oracle: System.Data.OracleClient require 8.1.7 version
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
6 replies
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0 votes
Hello, We installed a PowerServer 2020 in a server and deployed a mobile application there that connects to an Oracle database. It all worked correctly and our customer could begin to work with it. But some days later the mobile application began t...
Alex Hernandez Alex Hernandez
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
PB 2019 Crash on datastore reset with MS Server 2019 and Task scheduler
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
5 replies
1763 views
0 votes
Hi PB users, We try to solve a crash problem with PB 2019 R2, that occurs in the constructor event of a user object instantiated by a window running with MS windows server 2019 and task scheduler with "Run whether user is logged on or not" mode. Wi...
  1.  Server
  2.  DataStore
Pierre DETE Pierre DETE
  1. PowerBuilder
Re: Print pagenumber at the bottom of every page in Label dw
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
1543 views
0 votes
Hello, In PB 10.5 One of our customers, require current page number to get printed at the bottom of the every page, in the Label type datawindow.  Is it possible ?     
  1.  Label
  2.  PowerBuilder
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
CloudAppInstaller - Port 26568 In Use
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Joe Hess replied 3 years ago
5 replies
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0 votes
Hi, I'm migrating my users to use our application via PowerClient. Every now and then, a user receives a message saying port 26568 is in use when trying to run the CloudAppInstaller (image attached). We are in a hosted, Citrix environment. My guess...
Joe Hess Joe Hess
  1. PowerBuilder
How to get dw_1.SaveAs('', PDF!, TRUE) to Open in a specific directory
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
PB2021 R1 build 1288 I can't seem to find a way to have the dw_1.SaveAs('', PDF!, TRUE) open the Save As dialog window in a specific directory - it always just goes to the current directory. I even tried to put a ChangeDirectory(ls_initdir) before ...
Gregory Rusak Gregory Rusak
  1. PowerBuilder
Excel, OLE, Error in Copying multiple sheets into an excel. Wrong sheet was copied.
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi All, My program is generating reports in excel format which contains 8 sheets. It is batch program to pick up the request from the queue, generate the reports, and send them to the user. And 4 sessions are running at the same time to process the ...
  1.  Excel
  2.  OLE
Sang Hee Cho Sang Hee Cho
  1. PowerBuilder
update for bug 6504
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Luke Monson replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
We are currently on IDE 2019 R3 2703 and using Runtime 2703 in production. We would like to get bug fix 6504 out into our production. It is listed as DataWindow category. Can we update our IDE to 2728, but use Runtime 2703, and recreate the executa...
  1.  .EXE
  2.  Bug
  3.  DataWindow
  4.  Deployment
  5.  Update
Luke Monson Luke Monson
  1. PowerBuilder
Encrypt/Decrypt PB to C#
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
1895 views
0 votes
Hello This is something specific, we are migrating some process to C#, but there is some Encryt/Decrypt code in PB that we would want to have something similar with c#, could someone tells us how to translate this section? same public/private keys, ...
Samuel Sanchez Avila Samuel Sanchez Avila
  1. SnapDevelop
No Listener problem when running PowerServer 2021 project
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
3133 views
0 votes
Hi, I'm trying to convert a legacy PowerBuilder application to an installable cloud app using PowerServer 2021. The app runs, but I get an "ORA-12541: TNS: No listener" message when I try connecting to the database. I see that I get a warning in t...
Michael Connell Michael Connell
  1. PowerServer

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