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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
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PB 11.5 crashing due to OLEACC.DLL interaction
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  1. Last updated 54 minutes ago
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Hi. I'm having an issue in an old application built with PB 11.5.1 Build 4608. The application is crashing due to some interaction with OLEACC.DLL. Apparently it has something to do do with DDDW's, but not sure about that. This started happening ab...
Diego Marrero Diego Marrero
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Removing the series axis of a datawindow graph control
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  1. Last updated 2 hours ago
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Hi, again. Is there a way to programmatically remove the series axis of a datawindow graph control? Thanks in advance for answering!
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
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Can you teach me about Update function of DataWindow ? ( wireless LAN communication response delay )
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  1. Last updated 10 hours ago
  2.  Tatsuya Hayama replied 8 hours ago
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Hi, Appeon Team, Can you teach me about Update function of DataWindow ? Our company recently made the switch from wired LAN communication to wireless LAN communication. After that, the Update function took a lot of time to run. Is there a sol...
Tatsuya Hayama Tatsuya Hayama
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Error Accessing External Object Property (After updating 3rd party COM object) (Micro Focus Content Manager COM SDK Version 24)
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 hours ago
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Hi Community, My application uses a 3rd party COM object - Micro Focus Content Manager COM SDK. In this case it's the "TRIMSDK.Database" COM object. After updating the product from version 10 to version 24, PowerBuilder can no longer access even t...
Peter Thiem Peter Thiem
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PB 2025 and GIT not using .gitignore
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Alfredo Santibanez replied 9 hours ago
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Dear Friends I am testing the migration to PB2025 (3683) so far without problems, except when moving to GIT. Create a new folder with app required files Create new Workspace (not yet a solution) Add targets and they were migrated ...
Alfredo Santibanez Alfredo Santibanez
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Can you freeze a datawindow grid column like excel - not using the split scroll??
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 hours ago
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We have a customer that wants the datawindow grid to allow for us to freeze the first column without depending on the split scroll? Other than trying to have two shared datawindows side by side and trying to synchronize scrolling - is their a better...
Glenn Barber Glenn Barber
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PB2025 beta : opensheet issue
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  1. Last updated 7 months ago
  2.  Rob Stevens replied 12 hours ago
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Hi, Opening a main window within an mdi frame with opensheet() doesn't display anything. However, it appears in the opened windows list in the MDI frame's menu. The same window is displayed when opened with open(). Running on Windows 11 Enterprise...
Pierre Couvreur Pierre Couvreur
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Single Sign On In Power Builder
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  1. Last updated 17 hours ago
  2.  Ashok Kumar replied 15 hours ago
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Has anyone implemented Single Sign On in PowerBuilder? Please share steps if yes.
Ashok Kumar Ashok Kumar
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How to copy permissions from one user to another in PowerBuilder 2019 R3
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  1. Last updated 23 hours ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 22 hours ago
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Hi everyone, I'm new to PowerBuilder and working on an application built with PowerBuilder 2019 R3. I have a window called w_xxx where I can see a list of programs and their associated users. For each program, I can see which users have permission a...
Albert Sas Albert Sas
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to change backgroud color in datawindow
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  YuSeok Kim replied 1 day ago
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I would like to know how to change the background color of dw_2.(ll_row, 'unpick_qty') when some condition is met
william yau william yau
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Pipeline doing INSERT instead of UPDATE
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Konstantin Goldobin replied 1 day ago
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Hello, I'm using a pipeline object with the operation set to "Update - Update/Insert Rows", which I understand should update records in the target database that match the selected key criteria values selected from the source DB. However, instead of ...
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Konstantin Goldobin Konstantin Goldobin
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2025 PowerServer Cloud App Launcher Permitted URLs
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Hi I see in 2025 there have been security enhancements so that the cloud app launcher is locked down to only launch appeon applications. One of the enhancements is around allowing a list of permitted urls in the apprun.json - which I assume is used ...
Rob Stevens Rob Stevens
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Powerbuilder 2025 beta lot of errors C0203 Exception error
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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We are trying the latest beta of Powerbuilder 2025 and the compilation fails with a lot of erros like this ---------- Compiler: Errors (10:41:04)c:\repositories\XXX\uo_object.sru(102,5): uo_object.of_function(25,5): Error C0203: Exception type 'SM_...
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Inaki Rodriguez Inaki Rodriguez
  1. PowerBuilder
Recommend a spell checker for Powerbuilder 2022?
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Our current spell checker is from Visual Components is not working with the migration to PB 2022. Looking suggestions on a replacement spell checker or how to setup Visual Components to work with PB 2022?
Kevin Thompson Kevin Thompson
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CLOBS >32k from oracle stored procedures and PB 22r3
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  James Levin replied 1 day ago
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We're running PowerBuilder 22r3 32-bit, Oracle 19c, and ORA database interface and it would be great to support CLOB 32k in and out of Oracle Procedures/Functions. is there a way to support this?
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James Levin James Levin
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Why Am I getting this error and how can I fix it? Invalid~Hex character sequence in string
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Daryl Foster replied 2 days ago
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Reynard Harrison Reynard Harrison
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PB2025 solution : Compilation failed, code = -1073741502.
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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[ERROR] Compilation failed, code = -1073741502.
Bill Gates Bill Gates
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Powerbuilder ORA Oracle driver with Oracle 23ai
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Bruce Armstrong replied 4 days ago
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We are using Powerbuilder 2022 R3 in our applications . we are planning to upgrade backend to oracle 23ai . Will PB oracle driver work with Oracle 23ai (32 bit /63 bit ) ?
Nagavel Kanagavel Nagavel Kanagavel
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Drag/Drop doesn't work for 64-bit app
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 days ago
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Hi all, I have a couple of windows with a datawindow that is supposed to respond to the pbm_dropfiles event. I have defined a global external function: FUNCTION int DragQueryFileW (long hDrop, int iFile, ref string szFileName, int cb) LIBRARY "she...
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Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
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GoogleCharts and ApacheEcharts integration
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 days 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
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