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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 2 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 2022 R3 3397 Upgrade .pbr PBAutoBuild220.exe issue.
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- Issue
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Mary Jane Foster replied 10 months ago
Hello:We are in the process of upgrading from PB 2022 R3 3289 to 3397, and I've encountered something strange.  Our custom objects used on buttons and things are not showing in the executable when built from PBAutoBuild220.exe.  But do if a manual bu...
            Hi All,
I am using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356 and MS SQL Server 2019 with the collation set to Latin1_General_100_CI_AI_SC_UTF8.
In a DataWindow, I have a column of type string with a length of 375. I have limited the users to type up to 375 c...
                    
            Anyone have experience with PB App changing SQLAnywhere CHAR's to UTF8
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 10 months ago
We have a PB 2017 app accessing a SQLANywhere Database which has the character set for CHAR types as windows-1252 (its an old app) but NCHARS are UTF8.  The issue is the SQL ANywhere SQL processor automatically converts the SQL syntax to the CHAR for...
                    
            Drag & Drop DLL for PB 32 Bit and Outlook 32 & 64 Bit available
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Arthur Hefti replied 10 months ago
Hi
we managed to create a DLL (or better a set of DLLs) for 32 bit PowerBuilder applications that can interact with Outlook 32 bit and Outlook 64 bit as well. The DLL called from a 32 bit application tries to initialize 32 bit MAPI. If it doesn't su...
                    
            Integrating FedEx Shipping with REST, JSON, and OAuth - source code
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Paweł Kasperek replied 10 months ago
Hi,
 
I watched the great presentation of John Stano: https://www.appeon.com/conference/elevate-2024/live?id=418.
Is it possible to download the sample code presented on this webinar?
 
Regards,
Pawel
            Hi, I hope you can help us with a perplexing issue we are seeing. No known cause has been found yet.
We are experiencing intermittent errors when getting OAuth access token in RESTClient - it works most of the time but fails for a few users dailye.g...
                    
            A query about the SQLPreview Event
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
I have a question about the SQLPreview Event of DataWindow
When you want to skip your current query based on a specific condition, for example, if I want to skip a DELETE query from being sent to the database, I can return 2 from this event, and it ...
            PB22 R3 - save credentials
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- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hello,
We have a windows11 station with PB2022 R3.The station is an image that resets every log off.The user profile is roaming profile saved remotely in the network(not local).Every new log in we need to activate the PB manual time after time and t...
            View PDFs and TIFF files from a PB application
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
We currently use different old Active X controls to view different items (Word Docs, TIFF images, PDFs and XML). Unfortunately, these are old 32-bit components and are starting to throw errors randomly or freezing for 2 minutes and then coming back. ...
            PowerBuilder Graph Question
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- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 10 months ago
Hi Guys
I would like to create a graph that is a stacked bar that has this year last year separate stacks for comparison. I have created the graph for This Year and it has the bar stacks based upon the series. How can I tell PB to then include anoth...
                    
            DataWindow Background - Theme change
- Issue
- Last updated 11 months ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 10 months ago
Hi I am currently using PowerBuilder 2022 R2 where we are adding themes to our application.  Unable to change the background to the Datawindow.
We want to add a background color to the window. 
Inside that window we have a data window, we are cha...
            Hi,
 
I tried to migrate my software to 2022 R3, but after installation and migration of a small aplication without errors, at time of opening any object, the IDE closes, no messages at all.  I was able to connect to a database, but not to edit or ...
                    
            Hi Everyone ,
I am experiencing an issue while trying to install PowerBuilder MR2170 2019 on my machine. During the installation process, I encounter an error message stating, "Failed to install the application."
I have tried several troubleshootin...
            Infomaker Change from SQL Server Native client to OLE Microsoft OLE DB
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Roland Smith replied 10 months ago
We are using infomaker.
We use to connect to InfoMaker using SQL Server Native client or what also is called: SNC SQL Native Client.
 Like:
 
The Server field had: Server\Instance
The Database: had the name of the databases.
 
Now we want to c...
            PS Application and Web APIs Installation Question
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- Advice
- Last updated 10 months ago
- VINOD NAIR replied 10 months ago
I want to know if there is a best practice document to install PowerServer 2022 R3 build applications and web APIs. We have 5 applications with 5 WEB APIs. How should we install this in IIS so it runs smoothly. 
As an example I created a site for 2 ...
            PowerBuilder PB2022R3 3356, Windows 10 and Window 11
Hi,I want to execute jscript code with a window. I tried to use the webrowser (WebView2) EvaluateJavaScriptSync() function:
integer		li_rc
string		ls_Result, ls_ErrorMsg
webbrowser	lwb_Object
...
                    
            Hi, 
I'm trying to do some Microsoft Azure AD Authentication integration and need some help verifying the signature of the ID Token provided during the authentication exchange.
Looking at the docs, the CoderObject's AsymmetricVerifySign seems to be...
            Help with the Scroll inside a column in a DW
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- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hi there to the PowerBuilder experts -
 
So, I have a datawindow which has one big column (say comments) which an application user can use to enter multiple lines of text (like a freeform comments column), and this column has a Vertical Scroll bar ...
            Disappearing application from Windows with no errors
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Darren Longenecker replied 10 months ago
This is a revised version of the same question I asked earlier:
https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/disappearing-application-from-windows-with-no-errors
I took the advice and upgraded PowerBuilder, rebuilt my app, and shipped it to the u...
            We have a PB2022 application that when run on windows 11 the VScrollBar control added on the window (used to scroll up and down on saved entries) is invisible unless you hover over top of the control then it appears.
We have found a windows setting ...
            
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