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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
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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
DropDownPictureListBox PowerServer 2021
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Luiz Marques replied 3 years ago
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Hello All,            I have migrated a PowerBuilder application for a client and I'm testing. The first screen that open is the logon screen that have a DropDownPictureListBox with the DB's settings. Using the PowerBuilder the DB show the image and...
Luiz Marques Luiz Marques
  1. PowerServer
Can't connect MS SQL Server Express from Power Server 2021
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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Hi, I'm testing PB Power Server 2021 with MS SQL Server 2019 Express. Both Windows and SQL server authentication are enabled. I have some odd behaviour and problems while connecting my database from PowerServer (from PB both authentication methods...
  1.  PowerServer
  2.  SQL Server
Hannu Pikkarainen Hannu Pikkarainen
  1. PowerServer
Losing Initial DDW Display
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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I'm missing something very simple.  I do a GetChild on a dddw to filter the column.  The filter works fine except that for the first time, when I click on the column, the display changes to the code value of the current item, it does not retain the d...
James Medick James Medick
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.prp files not reflecting correct checkout date
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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Hi: In December of 2018 one of our developers migrated us to PB 2017 R3 build 1858.  For whatever reason he experienced some version issues. Now, almost 16 months later, I have at least two instances where the checkout date in the .prp reflects the...
Mary Jane Foster Mary Jane Foster
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Powerserver Console window
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  SHAMEEM KAKKAD replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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Hai, While I am closing the console window in the power server deployment, I can't use the power server (with browser) facility. After deployment the exe into cloud, we need to keep the console ?. Or  Have any other solutions ?
SHAMEEM KAKKAD SHAMEEM KAKKAD
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Remove/trim day name
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Avory Rose Pastoral replied 3 years ago
7 replies
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Hi Everyone,   I have a script where I upload my excel file and read it using pb script  On my excel file this is how I display my date : WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2020 And this how I read it s_logdte = trim(string(myoleobject.application.workbooks(...
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Avory Rose Pastoral Avory Rose Pastoral
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Any course/training available for SnapDevelop
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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Hello, Does anyone provide PB/Appeon/SnapDevelop hands-on training to experienced PB developers in U.S.?
shoaib siddiqui shoaib siddiqui
  1. SnapDevelop
reset / start over in dropdowndatawindow (dddw)
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Shekar Reddy replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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Hi all I have spent hours trying to get this done but to no avail. Here is what I have I have a dw control (let's call it dw_main) within it there is a column ('trouble') that is of edit style dddw (dropdowndatawindow). I also have a datawindowch...
CJ Lai CJ Lai
  1. PowerBuilder
Connect options from PowerServer to databases
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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Hi, The new PowerServer 2021 provides only few possible possibilities for database providers: Is there more options coming and with what timetable? Could it be possible to use all ODBC-drivers installed on the server? Is it possible to use driv...
  1.  Database Driver
  2.  PowerServer
Hannu Pikkarainen Hannu Pikkarainen
  1. PowerServer
PB Hangs when open Data Source from Datawindow painter
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
5 replies
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Hi all. I am working with PB2019R2. I have a problem when I try to open the datasource from the datawindow painter. The hourglass stays indefinitely. This happens to me when I use a database connection using Oracle 10g or Oracle 9i. However if I us...
EMILIO GARCIA ANDRES EMILIO GARCIA ANDRES
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Mailmerge with OLE
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hello, After a mailmerge with a document containing INCLUDEPICTURE fields, it is necessary to refresh the document by pressing F9 in Word. To avoid that, I coded "lole_doc.Fields.Update" after the mailmerge.execute in my Powerscript mailmerge funct...
Pierre Couvreur Pierre Couvreur
  1. PowerBuilder
Deploy/Host PowerServer 2021 to Azure
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
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Hi all; Please, Do you know what could be the best way or options to Deploy/Host PowerServer 2021 to Azure? I'm looking for options, preferably outside Visual Studio.   Thanks, Alex
Alex Riofrio Alex Riofrio
  1. PowerServer
MFA Passive federation – Database Connection
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
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Hi, We are in the process of implementing MFA Passive federation in our PowerBuilder applications. Currently we use the application logged-in user credentials to log-in to the computer (using LogonUserA)  and then use integrated security=sspi to co...
Jeyakumar Chinnapillai Jeyakumar Chinnapillai
  1. PowerBuilder
PB Unit testing framework
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  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Jeyakumar Chinnapillai replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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Hi,   Is there any unit testing framework available for Appeon PowerBuilder?      Thanks Regards, Jeyakumar
Jeyakumar Chinnapillai Jeyakumar Chinnapillai
  1. PowerBuilder
Regarding Custom Color
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  SHAMEEM KAKKAD replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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Hai, Have any options to add custom color in PowerBuilder ?. Now available only 16 custom colors. I want to add more colors to custom or each target needs different colors like to-do list.  
SHAMEEM KAKKAD SHAMEEM KAKKAD
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Certificate based whitelisting for CloudAppLauncher_Installer.exe
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Daryl Foster replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hi, we've been playing around with Powerclient again this week and it is looking promising, but we still have a couple of small issues with CloudAppLauncher_Installer.  We may still use the msi for central deployment, but I kind of like the idea of t...
Daryl Foster Daryl Foster
  1. PowerBuilder
Session Id size
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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what is the max length of the session id returned by PS2021? this is from the help as an example of the session id: "sessionid":"8e3f5c6d-7515-4377-9a45-0e3349fcbfd2"I need to store the session id, so i need to know how big it can be.   ** this i...
mike S mike S
  1. PowerServer
insert barcode to many scanned files auto (~500k files)
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  ahmed tawfik replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hi Everyone,   I have thousands  scanned files (pdf,jpg,jpeg,....) mainly pdf - scanned without barcode I want  to add barcode on each file auto (all files in specific directory) I have excel file that have the no that can be used to generate barco...
ahmed tawfik ahmed tawfik
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ClassName for PB2021 Application
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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Hello, For PowerBuilder 2019 R2 applications, the ClassName for the MDI application window was: "FNWND3190". What is it now for PB2021 applications? I'm supposing it might be: "FNWND3", but not sure. And how can I actually find it to confirm? Than...
Gregory Rusak Gregory Rusak
  1. PowerBuilder
sql / dw updates
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hi,  I have 3 databases that have a table that is the same structure   for example - customers which has fields account name type  info other   One is the master database by that i mean that it contains all the records the other 2 have a s...
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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