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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 2 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
  1. PowerBuilder
How can I make my PowerServer app listen for a return value from an external browser to get an OAUTH token?
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 10 months ago
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I am working on a new PowerServer application.  The desired login behavior is to have the app open an external browser, then the user logs in via our OAuth2.0 Identity Server (placing the token in that browser for other affiliated web-based applicati...
  1.  OAuth
  2.  PowerServer
Mike Sinclair Mike Sinclair
  1. PowerBuilder
Tracing profiler viewer tool
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
1 reply
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Hi, I have gone through the below link and watched the film on YT. But, How can I open and use the Profile Viewer tool from PB IDE?  Catching the Runtime Error in the Act - Tracing and Profiling Your Application at Runtime   Regards, Pawel
Paweł Kasperek Paweł Kasperek
  1. PowerBuilder
How to convert 'Any' datatype for an argument of event of OleCustomControl?
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Vladimir Mylnikov replied 10 months ago
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PowerBuilder 2022 R3 on Windows 10. I am trying to use OleCustomControl - 32 bit ActiveX control from nsoftware.com: www.nsoftware.com/platforms/activex/setup?sku=ISAJ-Atype=demo I used the control for many years but the vendor made a change which P...
  1.  Controls
  2.  DataType
  3.  Event
  4.  OLE
  5.  PowerBuilder
Vladimir Mylnikov Vladimir Mylnikov
  1. PowerBuilder
Opening another PB version on the same machine
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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I installed the beta version of PB 2025 on my virtual machine and it works fine. However, when I closed it (using the Exit menu) and tried to open PB 2022 R2, which I am currently using for development, I got an error message (see below). At the same...
George Mikhailovsky George Mikhailovsky
  1. PowerBuilder
Profiling Trace View alternative?
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Paweł Kasperek replied 10 months ago
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PowerBuilder 2019 2728 I am trying to work out exactly which bit(s) of code are slow for a particular customer. I turned on tracing in code for a particular routine, and after a couple of weeks have lots of PBP files. However when I try to open any ...
  1.  PowerBuilder
Aron Cox Aron Cox
  1. PowerBuilder
Datetime problem, the last two digits of the year changes automaticly to something else when entering a year
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
2 replies
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Hi, we have a problem with the datetime columns and were hoping someone else has experienced this as well and knows why. It suddenly happens at the costumer and here in house. We just can’t recreate it and are therefore at a loss what’s going on. T...
Michael Doescher Michael Doescher
  1. PowerBuilder
Create column dynamically in a datawindow
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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Hello, Do you know about to create a column dynamically (by code) in a datawindow? I have an special request, and it is needed to add a column to enter a text in the header band of a grid datawindow. I appreciate your support and help. Thanks and...
Jhonns Salas Jhonns Salas
  1. PowerBuilder
Webview2 how to clear input history?
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  André Monz replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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Hello all,in PB2022 we use the webview2 control to access a website.How can I delete the input history via the webview2 control?At the moment i delete the "Web Data" file in the UserDataFolder every time I use it.      
André Monz André Monz
  1. PowerBuilder
How to implement Copy/Paste for all text fields in application
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
2 replies
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We have a large PowerBuilder 2021 application with many DataWindows. I want to have Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) implemented globally throughout the application.  This does not seem to work out of the box and I think custom code may be required....
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder
Brian McCarthy Brian McCarthy
  1. PowerBuilder
Community version
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
1 reply
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Would it be possible to create a community version of Appeon Powerbuilder. I've been working with PowerBuilder since 1996 V4. But now have been sent to retirement a little bit sooner then expected :-).Unfortunately that means no more access to the s...
Dirk Snoeckx Dirk Snoeckx
  1. PowerBuilder
Pushing generated EXE on devops/git
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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Hi Appeon,    We have this project that was deployed to devops and we maintain it using git/pb2022r3.  So after all enhancement was finished we would generate all pbd and exe just like we used to with pb12.5.   So my question is, how do we publi...
  1.  Git
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  PowerBuilder (SAP)
Lemuel Bacli Lemuel Bacli
  1. PowerBuilder
How to ignore the upgrade CloudLauncher message ?
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  David Xiong @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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We are considering migrating from 2022 R2 to R3 but are encountering an issue with the CloudLauncher update. The CloudLauncher does not update automatically, resulting in a message being displayed every time the user opens the application before the...
Mihai Apostol Mihai Apostol
  1. PowerBuilder
Problem with cumulativeSum display with the datawindow compute field.
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
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About the cumulativeSum display problem with the datawindow compute field.We have one calculate field in our datawindow that uses "abs (cumulativeSum( (price) for all ))".One specific user system is the problem. We tried and found no problems with ot...
Mariappan Balakrishnan Mariappan Balakrishnan
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Disable the statusbar of the webview2 webbrowser of PB 2022 R3
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Peter Thiem replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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Hi Folks How to disable the statusbar in the left corner of the webview2 webbrowser of PB2022 R3 ? I found  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core.corewebview2settings.isstatusbarenabled?view=webview2-dotnet-1.0.2...
  1.  64-bit
  2.  Browser
  3.  WebBrowser
jalil Rehman jalil Rehman
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder creates an XML file which contain the run time path
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 10 months ago
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When I build an application PowerBuilder creates an XML file which contain the run time path the program needs to run. How do I utilize this in setting up the execution environment?    Example of an XML File : ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?A...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  XML
  3.  PowerScript IDE
Reynard Harrison Reynard Harrison
  1. PowerBuilder
Export Datawindow to Excel
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  mathews rutto replied 10 months ago
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Hi, How do I export datawindow and maintain the layout format. This includes how to add a logo to excel also. The data is displayed correctly in a datawindow preview. I need it to look the same when I export to excel.
mathews rutto mathews rutto
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue with Printing from PowerBuilder Launched via HTML5 Webpage
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 11 months ago
1 reply
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Hello ,   We are currently using PowerBuilder 2019 and are attempting to launch the application through an HTML5 webpage. However, we are encountering an issue with printing reports, data objects, and other documents from PowerBuilder when it is la...
himanshi tayal himanshi tayal
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Crashes when deploying project migrated from 2019 R2
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 11 months ago
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I've run into an issue deploying an existing project that last was deployed from 2019 R2. I've migrated it, changed my resource file, optimized PBLS, and rebuilt it fine. It crashes without a popup when attempting to deploy. I have tried to redo the ...
Lawrence Anderson Lawrence Anderson
  1. PowerBuilder
PB2022R3 Incorrect syntax near sqlHandle_01_4BB9BB3D
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 months ago
2 replies
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Dear Team, We are in the process of testing our migrated (PB2019R3 to PB2022R3) suite of PB applications. I have deployed the migrated application, when I try to run the application from using exe, code is throwing an error while executing Sybase S...
  1.  PBVM
  2.  SQL
Dhiman Kumar Dhiman Kumar
  1. PowerBuilder
Web API built with SnapDevelop not running under IIS / Windows 11
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
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Hi, I'm trying to deploy a lightweight WebAPI built with SnapDevelop 2022 R3 under IIS / Windows 11. The WebAPI is functioning well within my developmental environment: I used the publish function to copy the files into the root folder of my pro...
Peter Klopfer Peter Klopfer
  1. SnapDevelop

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