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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 1 year 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 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Write summary band computed objects to an excel report
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 1 hour ago
I have a simple tabular datawindow, that has many records in the detail band and a summary band giving just a sum of all the individual row values against each column. There are no groups in the datawindow. The client wants to know if the summary val...
Migrate 20 PB2025 - Log Files and PBL Folders
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- Issue
- Last updated 6 hours ago
- Roland Smith replied 4 hours ago
I upgraded from PB2021 to PB2025. 2 things, for now.
There were some issues when .sr files were upgraded. I see there should be sme log files. I see where they are supposed to be. They are not there. Is there a option I should specify or button I sh...
I am using PB 2022 R3 build 3397. I am getting the following error message when I try to use the web browser control to download a pdf file from a report server: "Webview2 runtime not installed"
We are testing the installation of an application on d...
Hello,
I have a PS2022 Application that I have not had to deploy for maybe 8 weeks. When I opened the powerserver project today, it just shows a blank page. if I right click on it and deploy it works but still blank page. If I create a new powerserv...
Pipeline Performance Delay
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- Advice
- Last updated 9 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 hours ago
I am trying to find out if the Data Pipeline has any performance restrictions/parameters. I am using PB 2022 and SQL Server 2016 . Our database configuration is that we have 5 regional databases and 1 main database. The main database is where the rep...
Getting printer properties from the default printer
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- How-to
- Last updated 13 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 10 hours ago
I kindly ask if anyone has code in PB for getting properties like printing orientation.
I don't mean the datawindow object orientation, but the physical printer.
I tried many sources including ChatGpt but nothing works.
Export to Excel12 in PB2025, file not created
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Padma Kaur replied 11 hours ago
After migrating my program to PB 2025 I was notified by a user that the Excel export (to XLSX) no longer worked. Export to Excel XLS still works. There are no errors. The program thinks it is creating a file, but nothing is there. I've looked at all ...
Seeking Secure Vault Integration for PowerBuilder + Sybase DB Credentials
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- Advice
- Last updated 20 hours ago
- Simon Jutzi replied 12 hours ago
Hi Everyone,
I'm currently working on a PowerBuilder application that connects to a Sybase database. At the moment, the DB credentials are hardcoded in the application code, which poses a security risk and makes maintenance difficult.
I'm exploring...
Strange Tab behavior in Richtextedit
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- Issue
- Last updated 17 hours ago
- Bernhard Giesriegl replied 13 hours ago
Hi all,
there I see a strange behavior on dealing with tabs in RTE:
1
On an empty RTE doing anything I have a lot of standard tabs:
2
OK, I remove them all with rte.removetab:
3
I set some tabs with rte.settab and fill in 'TEST':
...
Issue with Excel Export After Migration from PB2022 R3 to PB2025
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- René Ullrich replied 19 hours ago
Hi,
We have recently migrated our source code from PowerBuilder 2022 R3 to PowerBuilder 2025. Post-migration, we are encountering an issue when exporting data to an Excel file. This issue arises only when we running the application from the build pa...
Azure Key Vault secret
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Aswin Kumar Madabushi replied 19 hours ago
Morning Everyone
Has anyone used PowerBuilder to access an Azure Key Vault secret? In it's simplest form it's a HTTPS Get which is not difficult, but I'm trying to understand the security authentication required. If someone else has cracked this one...
Hi Appeon,
Im seeking for technical support about our pb application that has devops as its repository.
The issue I encountered is that most of the pbls on devops is missing. For reference this is the list of the pbs that our applications has:
I...
Powerbuilder application line count needed
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- John Fauss replied 19 hours ago
Please recommend the best way to get a total line count in our PB application. Does Pbl Peeper still work with PB 2022? Is there a simpler process?
Thank you
PB22 R3 Devops push restores to base form of pbls
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Lemuel Bacli replied 21 hours ago
Hi Appeon,
We are experiencing a weird phenomenon when using devops and powerbuilder 22 R3.
Our applications were written on pb12.5 and then migrated to PB22 R3 and we created individual pbl for each modules on the system.
For example, we have Sal...
PowerServer application only allows developer to connect
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- David Xiong @Appeon replied 22 hours ago
Hi Guys. We got past the previous issue, and now are facing something new. Our powerserver application now opens and stays connected with an authenticated session, but if anyone other than me (the primary developer) tries to connect, they are getting...
Power Builder code to print to a Network printer
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- John Fauss replied 1 day ago
All,
We are currently using an application that was originally developed 30 years ago. The code was upgraded a few years back to PowerBuilder version 2019.
This application uses OLE objects to print labels to printers connected via the COM port of ...
Two Powerserver Applications deployed to same server but want to use one port
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi,
Increasingly customers are limiting outgoing ports on their firewalls to just port 80 or 443.
This poses a problem if i want to deploy multiable powerserver application deployed to the same server.
Is there a way to deply more than one appli...
Powerclient - Error - in multiple user on the same machine
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Angie Liu@Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi Team,
We have successfully configured and deployed the PowerClient application at the client site. However, we are encountering an issue when more than one Windows user attempts to use the application on the same machine.
Scenario:
User Raj...
multiple c# class libraries on different .net runtimes (PB2025 build 3683)
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Steen Jakobsen replied 2 days ago
Hello,
I have multiple c# class libraries that each target different .net runtimes from the same executable (.net 4.8 , 6.0 , 8.0)
Everything "seems" to work however I'm seeing random crashes over time (exception in .net8 or pbvm reported in window...
Connect to Oracle Database
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
I have the TNSNAMES.ora file , how to connect Oracle DB from power builder ? Database painter does not have any entry for Host and service name
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