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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 3 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.   :) 
            PB 2017 R3
I have come across an issue recently with customers complaining that when they process documents to email the email will just randomly stop working.  Without going into all the detail my Email object is designed to create a mail session, ...
            PB 2019 R2 (build 2328) app doesn't properly process RTE data?
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- Advice
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 5 years ago
We just converted (Finally) a PB 12.1 application to PB 2019 R2 (build 2328). It works mostly but for one flaw in the compiled code - we store email templates via user settings in an RTE, in SQL server "text" columns.
When we run the app within PB 2...
            pblpeeper replacement - pbl object info
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Andrew Davis replied 5 years ago
Hi,
When i used older versions of powerbuilder i used pblpeeper for a couple of things, one was to find which pbl an object was saved in, the other was to find the modified date of the object, you could sort the list by modified date and see what yo...
                    
            Transaction connect Sybase failed
- Issue
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
Hi Team,
We have met an issue about  using the Transaction connecting to Sybase database.
It shows below error when connect failed:
Error Code:-1Error Text:ct_connect(): user api layer: external error: The maximum number of connections have alread...
                    
            Theme - Set datawindow column checkbox style image
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Colin Cruikshank replied 5 years ago
Is there a way using the Themes json file to dynamically set the box images for a protected datawindow column checkbox style control? Looks like it can be done for a Checkbox control by setting:
 
       "disabled-state":             {             ...
            special characters search and filter
- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Andrew Davis replied 5 years ago
Morning
I hope you can help, I am trying to search / lookup records in a name field on a database. But i am having a problem with special letters 
for example below - i want to be able to search 'Caus' and have the below show up ? so the special ch...
                    
            Problems with controlling OpenOffice via OLE
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- Last updated 5 years ago
- Daniel Vivier replied 5 years ago
Using PB 2019, I'm trying to use OpenOffice through OLE to open an Excel doc and save it as CSV. (Yes, I can do that Excel, but this is for a situation where OpenOffice is available but Excel isn't.)
I'm running into two problems: the SaveAsURL (or ...
                    
            Not a question-obseration about Edge and plug-in
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- Misc
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Tim McGill replied 5 years ago
Just noticed today the Appeon multi-browser plug-in is now working with Chromium Edge (85.0.564.51) - we're using Appeon powerserver 2017 with the mb plugin installer dated 10/27/2017.
            Hi all
 
Does someone have a sample code using whatsup with pb ?
 
Thanks
            Informix connection failing on Powerserver
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- Last updated 5 years ago
- Marco Meoni replied 5 years ago
I am stuck trying to set up an Informix Connection in AEM and am failing with message:
Unable to find an entry point named 'InterlockedIncrement' in DLL 'kernel32.dll'
I receive this error on both my workstation and our test ser...
            Pictures Not Showing on Datawindow Buttons in Win 2008
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- Issue
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Jeff Nesler replied 5 years ago
PB 2019 R2 Build 2353
OS with problems: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Service Pack 1
OS's that work fine: Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2012 Standard
I recently upgraded an app from PB 12.5 to 2019 R2 and am seeing an issue with data...
                    
            How to create a web service data window via using HTTPS Protocol ?
- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 5 years ago
Hi,
Currently we are using web service data windows which is using http Protocol but now requirement has been changed and we need to use https Protocol instead of http.
Any one Please Advise me how can I create web service data windows which is usi...
            Hi,
Would anyone know how to convert Unix Timestamp to DateTime in PowerBuilder?This needs to be done on an object without database connection.
P.S. Appeon, it think it would be nice to have this functionality (Timestamp to DateTime and DateTime to...
                    
            Hello All
I am getting the error 165001 when try to commit changes to the SVN server
SVN log, SVN Diff are working with no problems
only the SVN commit cause the error :
 
---------- Source ControlSVN commitSVN client is finding files. Please wa...
                    
            Can you create a GIT repository when adding to source control
- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Tom Jiang @Appeon replied 5 years ago
I am in the process of figuring out how GIT will work for our custom department.  Without going into all the details I need a repository for every customer that has custom code. I am wondering if there is a way when adding all the objects to source c...
            I posted this same question a month back.  We have ocx which is very old and the ocx works well in few 2016 servers, but it is not working when we run as the batch program. We uses the same code while running as an App and running as a Batch server.
...
                    
            Consuming a published Web API
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 5 years ago
Hi all.
I have followed all the steps outlined in the SnapDevelop 2019 R2 documentation to implement a Web API and have successfully consumed the API from PowerBuilder 2019 R2 using the localhost URL (https://localhost:5001/api/sample/load).
Then I...
            Hi,
I am interested in using the RichText control in PB2019.
The menu allows me change the font, size, weight, italics, etc - but am I am unable to change the text colour (or background colour)?
Has anyone else had such a requirement and what was ...
            I am facing an issue as shown in the attached screenshot. The issue occurs when generating an Excel Report. The same functionality is working in PB 8.0 but only in PB 2019R2 I am seeing this error. Requesting you to provide a solution to fix this iss...
            Help Files for PowerServer Web application
- Advice
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
Hello All,
in the older version in our PB10.5 Client/Server application we use HLP files in order to have help files using microsoft help workshop.
any advice on how to use the help files on the PowerServer Web (under PB2017)
maybe using this ::
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