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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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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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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
Powerbuilder 2019 Email issue with Application Exe (code works fine)
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Guillermo Tamburo replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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Recently migrated to PB2019 R2 Build 2328 and Outlook 365/Win10 coming across a weird issue with my application exe. works fine in the code. we have a screen in the application to send email on a button click. it creates a local mailsession object a...
  1.  .EXE
  2.  32-bit
  3.  Outlook
  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Brindha Duraisingh Brindha Duraisingh
  1. PowerBuilder
IDE Powerbuilder build's difference in upgrade
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  damian jimenez replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hi When i change runtime version (for example in PB2022 from runtime 1878 to 1892) the IDE still in build 1878.1. must be upgrade too or is not necesary ? (i mean if the program generated could change in something)2. if i run powerbuilderInstaller_b...
damian jimenez damian jimenez
  1. PowerBuilder
Re: Search option
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
3 replies
1103 views
1 vote
Hello, PB 2022 Build 1982 Can 'SEARCH' option be added, when we right click the tab, along with the above option?   I think it will save a lot of time to search the window in the opened PBLs and then Right click and choose search option. Happine...
  1.  Enhancement Request
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 220 CRASH WHILE BUILD
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  damian jimenez replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Hello all, We migrated last month our App from PB 10.5 to Appeon 2022 (Build 1878) and we experience a problem while try either to Build (either Full or Incremental), PB just crash without any message...from that point on it keeps crashing forever.....
Loukas Domestichos Loukas Domestichos
  1. PowerBuilder
Sending Mail with Outlook 365 / Envio de Mail con outlook 365
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
I want to send an email, it creates the section correctly and then it gives an error in the loggon. Below are the sentences of the program. The email account is configured in Outlook and with this application I send and receive emails perfectly.If so...
Guillermo Tamburo Guillermo Tamburo
  1. Elevate Discussion
PBAutoBuild / PBC compile directly one PBL
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  kitty he @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi, I know that in PB 2022 I can compile and build my PB target application project. Is it possible to compile only one, direct PBL library, not all assigned to an application's target?   Regards, Pawel
Paweł Kasperek Paweł Kasperek
  1. PowerBuilder
DisplayColumn property instead of DataColumn when retrieving data from WEB API
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
I am working on Retrieving data window data which has a dropdwonlist through WEB API, developed in SnapDevelop.How do you Retrieve a dropdownlist through WEB API and display its DisplayColumn property ,instead of DataColumn property? 
Miraben Apani Miraben Apani
  1. SnapDevelop
Enhancement request: modify SQLSyntax in transactions SQLPreview event
  1. Resolved
  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi all, have a happy new year! I could not find another way to post an enhancement request for future PB versions, so I'll leave it here. If there is a better way to do so, please let me know. We develop and maintain a quite large c/s application (...
  1.  Embedded SQL
  2.  Enhancement Request
  3.  PostgreSQL
  4.  SQL
  5.  SQL Anywhere
  6.  SQL Server
  7.  Transaction
Marc Wietscher Marc Wietscher
  1. PowerBuilder
Database Connection - Powerserver Error
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
New to Powerserver. When running the program, an error message pops up stating that the program cannot connect to the database. Within the program the connection string is as follows: SQLCA.DBMS = "ODBC"SQLCA.DBParm = "ConnectString='DSN=EpicEsso;UI...
Clifford Gregory Clifford Gregory
  1. PowerServer
Powerserver dw_1.Retrieve(), time wait before DBerror event
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hi  Recently migrated to Powerserver 2022 build 1878, works wonders, now I'm ironing out some rough edges that appear ;) The program in C/S delays but does not display any messages, but from Powerserver several database connection error windows app...
damian jimenez damian jimenez
  1. PowerServer
PowerServer application fails to open in Localhost.
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Clifford Gregory replied 2 years ago
5 replies
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0 votes
Attempting to use PowerServer for the first time with my PB 2021 application. After configuring PowerServer, program compiled without errors, and upon running the program the following error appears: "2022-12-29 08:03:39.133 ERROR [8476] Failed to d...
Clifford Gregory Clifford Gregory
  1. PowerServer
Non-selected items on listbox
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hello, How can I set an item as non-selected on a listbox control?  I have got a listbox with 10 items and I would be shown all these, but ex. 5 items I would be set as non-selected. Thank you for help me. Pawel 
Paweł Kasperek Paweł Kasperek
  1. PowerBuilder
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 2 years ago
2 replies
1770 views
0 votes
Merry Christmas!! Froehe Weinachten! Joyeaux Noel! Feliz Navidad! メリー・クリスマス！ I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas, and will have a wonderful and Happy New Year!All The Best,Olan    
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Need option to create pdf from tif/tiff file
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
  We are stuck in situation where we need PDF as end results and we have tiff file available.I have tried many things but not able to achieve this. We have tried following things. 1. Ghost script. But we are not going to use that as we found it is...
Vedant Patel Vedant Patel
  1. PowerBuilder
Getting an error when calling findfirstfilew/findnextfilew in pfc_n_cst_filesrvunicode to find the file details.
  1. Resolved
  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Sathishkumar S replied 2 years ago
5 replies
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Hi I am working migrating pb2019 to pb2022 (64 bit) whereas i am getting an error which points to the findnextfilew in the object pfc_n_cst_filesrvunicode  (sometimes it popsup the below system error sometime application crashes.)  what may be the r...
Sathishkumar S Sathishkumar S
  1. PowerBuilder
dynamically get default windows printer after pb app is running
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
I want to be able to change the default windows printer after I open the pb application and have the pb application pick up that new windows default printer without me having to restart my pb application.  Today, once the pb app has the default print...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  Print
Stacey Price Stacey Price
  1. PowerBuilder
Full-Featured Regular Expression NVO for PB
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Berka Frenfert replied 2 years ago
3 replies
1139 views
6 votes
I just wanted to share something I created. I have been using the venerable PBREGEXP from https://www.nika-soft.com/download/ for regular expression replacements etc., but yesterday I hit a bad bug in one use of it (I was trying to remove a large sec...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
linux powerserv2020 reinstall
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  kim ssangyong replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
After installing the power server in trial version, 45 days passed, and it became Expired. After that, I reinstalled the power server and re-connected the AEM site The above message appeared on the column where you enter the id and password. serv...
kim ssangyong kim ssangyong
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
replaced INET with HTTPClient but, its not working
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hey there,   I was using below in an event to launch an URL in a report window inet iinet_base GetContextService("Internet", iinet_base) iinet_base.HyperlinkToURL()   but, as INET is an obsolete our client doesn't want this to continue and the...
Vijay Jha Vijay Jha
  1. PowerBuilder
Long runnig task
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Aleš Vojáček replied 2 years ago
5 replies
1051 views
0 votes
Hi all, we have long running task (there is 30k rows in datawindow) and in for loop we are executing some checks using SQL queries. We are using MSSQL as database PB2022 runtime 1892. After cca 25 mins. Application ends with this error: Problem E...
Aleš Vojáček Aleš Vojáček
  1. PowerBuilder

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