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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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- 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. :)
Getting printer properties from the default printer
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Yossi Dallal replied 4 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.
Two Powerserver Applications deployed to same server but want to use one port
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- Last updated 2 days ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 6 hours 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...
Issue with Deployment on cloud for Powerbuilder 2019 Application
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- Last updated 6 days ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 6 hours ago
We have created the build 32 bit with PowerBuilder 2019 version. It is working fine in On Prem but when we try to deploy the same build on cloud server windows 2022 (Database is 11g 32 bit). We are getting the below error. Can you please let us know ...
Azure Key Vault secret
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 6 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...
PBLs is mission on Devops - PB22r3
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 6 hours ago
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...
PowerServer application only allows developer to connect
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- Last updated 2 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 7 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...
Connecting to PostgreSQL without using ODBC
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- How-to
- Last updated 11 hours ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 7 hours ago
Hi all...I need to connect to a PostgreSQL database without using ODBC.
Can You tell me what are the easy ways to do this and where i can find some example?
I am using PowerBuilder 2022.
Thanks in advance.
Mario
error creating exe file ( via project painter and the run -> full build and deploy )
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- Issue
- Last updated 8 hours ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 7 hours ago
Hi
We are using Powerbuilder 2022 , release R3 and up until yesterday , the executable files were being created without any issues
Not sure what happened since yesterday , the exe file creation process now gives an error : Error writing informati...
Hi team, We have deployed the code and trying to install the application file but we are getting below error.
We have built the applicationusing powerbuilder IDE 2022 r3 version and copied all pbds and dlls and deployed it
when we are trying to ins...
Power Builder code to print to a Network printer
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- John Fauss replied 8 hours 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 ...
writeprinters function to send string to printer - not working in 64 bit
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- Last updated 16 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 8 hours ago
Hello,
Successfully working in PB 2019 R3 build 32 bit
We were using the below command to print barcode to a barcode printer successfully so far, in PB 2019 R3 - 32 bit
ll_ret = OpenPrinter(ls_printer,ll_printer,0)
mydocinfo.lpszdocname="Label...
Powerserver project shows blank page
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 hours ago
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...
Migrate 20 PB2025 - Log Files and PBL Folders
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 12 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...
Pipeline Performance Delay
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 12 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...
Upgrade Appeon 2025
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- How-to
- Last updated 14 hours ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 13 hours ago
Hi !
I have until September to upgrade to Appeon 2025. Will I still be able to use Appeon 2022R3 after upgrading to Appeon 2025?
Write summary band computed objects to an excel report
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Krishna Mohan Gullap replied 20 hours 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...
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...
Export to Excel12 in PB2025, file not created
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Padma Kaur replied 1 day 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 1 day ago
- Simon Jutzi replied 1 day 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 1 day ago
- Bernhard Giesriegl replied 1 day 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':
...
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