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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Manuel Rivera replied 3 weeks 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 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 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
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Supported versions of Oracle client in PB 2025
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  1. Last updated 3 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
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Hi, While reading about the database compatibility of PB 2025, I noticed the following: Does this mean that a PB application using the 2025 runtime will not be compatible with Oracle client 12? Thank you.
Carl Bolduc Carl Bolduc
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add a table in a sql database - powerscript
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  1. Last updated 3 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
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Hi all Is it possible to add a table to a database using powerscript or some other method at run time ? for example create a table called item_codes fields item char10 item_desc char50 cost numeric 10,2 regards and thanks Andrew
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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PB 2025 code editor tab width
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
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We just upgraded from PowerBuilder 2022 to 2025, and all our code which was very well aligned in PB 2022 now looks an utter mess.Is there a way to adjust the tab width in the code editor ?Note : The script and editor settings are the same in PB 2022 ...
Stein Hemma Stein Hemma
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Not getting PB errors at runtime - execution stops
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  1. Last updated 7 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
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Hi! We are running PB 2022 R3 build 3397 CloudPro Edition. I've been seeing an increase in tickets come into our helpdesk where our application is not doing what it's supposed to be doing and I'm looking for some guidance, please. We don't seem to ...
John Raghanti John Raghanti
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PowerBuilder and Postgres DB Kerberos authentication
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  1. Last updated 2 hours ago
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We have a PowerServer2022 application. We are migrating from Oracle DB to PostgreSQL, hosted on an AWS server. Does Active Directory authentication using Kerberos supported by Appeon? We have tried using JDBC connection but is getting error, "SQLSTAT...
Jon Tzeng Jon Tzeng
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SQLanywhere connection pooling PowerServer
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  1. Last updated 8 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
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Hi, the power server documentation states the below SQL Anywhere (ODBC) 16 (16.0.0.2043 or later) or 17 If SQL Anywhere is on a different machine from PowerBuilder, make sure to enable the connection pooling setting in the ODBC driver. Connect...
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  2.  SQL Anywhere
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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PB DW creating columns as compute_XXXX when the from clause is from a derived table
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Hi guys, I'm using PB 2025 3711. I'm connecting to a MySQL DB using ODBC "MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0 (32-bit)". I was using version 8.0.37, but I've updated to the latest 32-bit available, which is 8.0.43 (PB IDE doesn't seem to be able to use the 64-...
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Daniel Ferreira Daniel Ferreira
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PBDEBUG, no file is create
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  1. Last updated 12 hours ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 5 hours ago
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We just moved from PowerBuilder 2022 to 2025 (3711).The application is compiled but in the runtime we got some crashes.Without any messagebox. In the Windows event we see that pbvm.dll was causing the error. In that situation we use '/pbedug' to see...
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Hans Groeneveld Hans Groeneveld
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PowerServer Enhancements for Deployment
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  1. Last updated 7 hours ago
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We have problems with objects not downloading to some users machines. It may be related to network/internet issues, but regardless the problems do not prevent all objects at all times, it just is slow and most likely (i'm guessing here) related to ti...
mike S mike S
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powersever 2025 timeout
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  1. Last updated 10 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 hours ago
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Hi, I hope you can help I have a power server app, the user logs on, some existing data is shown in a datawindows, they click to create an advice note for todays delivery, this in turns opens a datawindow. and inserts a row, they then fill it in....
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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fails to run
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Andrew Davis replied 8 hours ago
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Hi, pb2025 latest version I am having some issues getting the runtime to work on a couple of computers. 2 of which just seem to finish downloading the app launcher and then stop and do not run the application - no error message shows just does not...
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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Git switch branch and Solution
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  kitty he @Appeon replied 15 hours ago
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Hi, We converted our workspace into a solution and successfully recreated 2 branches in our Git repository, patch and develop (created from patch). Develop has some new objects, some modified and some deleted when compared to patch. In workspace mo...
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  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Luc Railhac Luc Railhac
  1. PowerBuilder
Arrow Icons are missing in Ribbon Bar when Theme is applied
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  kitty he @Appeon replied 20 hours ago
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Hi, We are using Power Builder 2022 R3 Build 3391 RunTime 22.2.0.3391 We have implemented themes and Ribbon bar in our application we are unable to see the dropdown arrow for the Ribbon bar buttons (Large and Small buttons both) whenever the Theme...
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Sandeep D Sandeep D
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How to determine if a datawindow contains a group
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  1. Last updated 23 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 21 hours ago
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Im trying to determine if a datawindow contains a group at runtime. All of these scripts don't work. ls_band = dw_1.Describe("Datawindow.band.groupheader.height")ll_groups = Long(dw_1.Describe("Datawindow.Group.Count"))ls_groups = dw_1.Describe("Dat...
Robert Sawyer Robert Sawyer
  1. PowerBuilder
HTTP CLIENT 2025: Error 307
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  1. Last updated 23 hours ago
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Hello there, i have been testing HttpClient 2025 on new PB 2025, i have been getting StatusCode 307 HttpClient_Object.GetResponseStatusCode() on my requests to http APIS. i dont have this issue in PB 2022, So its kind of strange, HttpClient_consult...
Samuel Sanchez Avila Samuel Sanchez Avila
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How to reach other columns in itemerror
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Ross Wood replied 1 day ago
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Hello beautiful PowerBuilder people, When we reach itemerror, failing on some column. Can we get the values of the other columns? I've been struggling for a few days with no success getting the other columns. Thanks
Ross Wood Ross Wood
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Missing expressions option for visible attribute on tabs
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 1 day ago
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In datawindows and most other objects, you can define an expression based on field data to set the visible or enabled attribute of the object. That option doesn't appear be the case for tabs, tab pages, and datawindows within tabs. I have included s...
Rich Gibson Rich Gibson
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PBL comparison tool
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Ronnie Po replied 1 day ago
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I recently got a new PC at work I can no longer run ProDiff. I've installed it numerous times with several versions of .Net but I can't find any way to make it work anymore. So, does anyone have a suggestion on another tool to use to compare PBLs and...
Lisa Willford Lisa Willford
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Compiler keeps recompiling over and over and over . Cant work with 70+ pbls
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 1 day ago
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OMG,I'm making cosmetic changes and resizing my application, which has 70+ pbls and takes 3 minutes to compile. Every time I touch anything, change a property, readjust the sizing, OMG it compiles again every time. This is ridiculous and not usable. ...
Richard Carrier Richard Carrier
  1. PowerBuilder
PDFDocument, how to create a line/rectangle
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Hi PDF gurus, is there a way to create lines and rectangles via PDFDocument based functionalities? Thanks in advance, Bernhard
Bernhard Stoeter Bernhard Stoeter
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