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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 1 year 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 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 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
PB 2025 deploy no pdb / exe created
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
7 replies
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Hello all, testing PB 2025 3559 I converted a workspace to a solution. When I press 'Deploy solution', following is displayed: But there is no *.pdb and no *.exe file created. There is another project, where this works, and third project, wher...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Bernhard Giesriegl Bernhard Giesriegl
  1. Beta Testing
Profiling API - TraceTree. BuildModel( ) returns SourcePblError!
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  1. Last updated 7 years ago
  2.  Zeel Mehta replied 2 hours ago
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Hello all, I built a Profiling Reporting tool that sits on top of the TraceTree System class.  (and TraceFile).  The application generates a report of a trace PBP file on demand.  My tool opens the trace and parses its data structures into datawin...
yakov werde yakov werde
  1. PowerBuilder
GoogleCharts and ApacheEcharts integration
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  1. Last updated 12 hours ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 7 hours ago
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Hi, there! Is there a way to get the source code for the applications that integrate PowerBuilder datawindows with GoogleCharts (demo.appeon.com_googlecharts) and ApacheEcharts (demo.appeon.com_echarts)? Hope it can be done. Thanks!
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerBuilder
SQL Server Varchar(MAX) fields
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  1. Last updated 14 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 hours ago
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We've converted our backend db from SQL Anywhere to MS SQL Server, and any field previously a long varchar was converted to a varchar(MAX) field. In the past, Powerbuilder would create datawindow column specifications for these fields as char(32766)...
Richard Donagrandi Richard Donagrandi
  1. PowerBuilder
GetCookies using Antview's WebView2 ActiveX Control
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Gregory Rusak replied 15 hours ago
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Hello, We've been using AntView's MS Edge Webview2 ActiveX control (.ocx) for a while now with PowerBuilder 2022 R3 and with version 1.1.460.0 they have introduced a method to list all of the cookies for a User's Profile. The CookieManager is a "pr...
Gregory Rusak Gregory Rusak
  1. PowerBuilder
Nested Sub-report Using Snapdevelpo
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 18 hours ago
2 replies
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Hello All, I am trying to create a report having few sub-reports. If we use client-server approach, that is generating the report in Powerbuilder its working absolutely fine. But now we have moved our project to Cloud based structure using Snapdeve...
Soumya Pandey Soumya Pandey
  1. SnapDevelop
Error when try to save Word document to PDF using OLE/Word.
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 19 hours ago
4 replies
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Hello Program works fine on my computer but on our batch server it returns "This command is not available because no document is open". Error comes when program try to save the pdf, like this: lole_doc.ActiveDocument.saveas2( is_arkiv_folder + '\' ...
  1.  Office
  2.  OLE
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Jesper Trebbien Jesper Trebbien
  1. PowerBuilder
reference name of current text object in datawindow expression
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 22 hours ago
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I have a datawindow with a text object expression which is a global function that passes 5 parms (describe statements). Is there a way to reference the textname for this text object expression in each describe without hardcoding? I need to use the sa...
Paul Shue Paul Shue
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 2025 PBProject Deploy Properties Storage Location?
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  Shane Ward replied 1 day ago
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Howdy y'all We're playing with the PB2025 Solution conversion from workspaces. As part of the conversion, I'm having trouble understanding where the deploy properties for each pbproj are stored, when changing these settings, they used to be sto...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Shane Ward Shane Ward
  1. PowerBuilder
Error Importing PBDOM.pbx in PowerBuilder 2022 – "GetDescription" Syntax Error
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 day ago
2 replies
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Hello, I am currently using PowerBuilder 2022 (Build 22.2.0.3289), and I encountered an issue while trying to import the PBDOM.pbx extension located at the following path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 22.2.0.3289\PBDOM...
ally wang ally wang
  1. PowerBuilder
Dynamic rows and columns with a Json string
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
2 replies
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Hi Team, I am currently using PowerBuilder 2022R3x86IDE, To show a Json string as rows and columns in a data window, am using "ImportJson" able to see the output but not a dynamic values. Is it feasible to have dynamic rows and columns using the...
Priyanka Yerramsetti Priyanka Yerramsetti
  1. PowerBuilder
Not working: DisableBind=0 in combination with Identity='SCOPE_IDENTITY()'
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Erwin Anema replied 1 day ago
2 replies
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Hi all, Context: PowerBuilder 2022R3 Build 3356. MSOLEDBSQL connecting against SQL Server. I ran into the issue of using DisableBind=0 in combination with Identity='SCOPE_IDENTITY()'.When the application performs an insert, the executed SCOPE_IDENT...
Erwin Anema Erwin Anema
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerServer Datawindow column issue with SQL Server and column of type char > length 32766
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 2 days ago
2 replies
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PB 2022R3 Build 3397 We have many columns in various data windows across multiple applications that exceed the 32766 string length. While this is not an issue in native PowerBuilder, it is an issue in PowerServer, as any datawindow with the said col...
Dustin Sellers Dustin Sellers
  1. PowerServer
WebBrowser - save PDF problem
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Michael Krul replied 2 days ago
2 replies
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Hello, PB 2022 R3, Build 3391 A problem with saving PDF files in WebBrowser has been detected. If you open a NEW WINDOW with a PDF file from WebBrowser window.open('https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf') ...
Michael Krul Michael Krul
  1. PowerBuilder
Non visual data window NULLABLE error
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 2 days ago
3 replies
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Hello, we are getting an error on one of our datastores: "ModeulOrModelName": "d_customer_productgroup", "ErrorCode": 0, "ErrorMessage": "Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'System.Nullable`1[System.Single]'." We have changed all ...
Esau Redwan Esau Redwan
  1. PowerServer
Why Am I getting this error and how can I fix it? Invalid~Hex character sequence in string
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Christopher Craft replied 2 days ago
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Reynard Harrison Reynard Harrison
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List All Fonts Installed on Workstation
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
6 replies
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I'm trying to populate a dropdown with a list of all installed fonts, but I'm having trouble getting something that works well. I got pretty close by looking at the Windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fo...
  1.  Font
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  Windows OS
Zachary Curtis Zachary Curtis
  1. PowerBuilder
InfoMaker How to Export pbl Library file names as a Text list with a script
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  GALEN BOYER replied 2 days ago
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We need to be able to export our library objects names like reports, forms and queries to a text list. I don't find a menu command for that. What is the best way to do that?
Tom Hines Tom Hines
  1. InfoMaker
Not able to set Sensitivity Label to Mail, while sending it through CDO & SMTP server.
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Brad Mettee replied 2 days ago
2 replies
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Hi , We are migrating our PowerBuilder application to Cloud. We are using PowerBuilder 2019 R3. Earlier we were facing some issue while sending mail using Outlook 365. To overcome this, we have decided to use Microsoft CDO feature to send mail vi...
Venkatesh M Venkatesh M
  1. PowerBuilder
SQLCA.SQLCODE and SQLCA.SQLDBCODE not capturing database error
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 4 days ago
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We are connecting Powerbuilder 17 app to SQL server through ODBC using the native SQL server ODBC driver. We send batch sql statements to the sql server. The batch statements are mainly execute procedure and checking the success or failure of the pro...
Sekhar Chitta Sekhar Chitta
  1. PowerBuilder

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