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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
Access sub-report on a nested datawindow
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 second ago
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Hi There to all PowerBuilder Guru's - I have a composite datawindow (say dw_composite) which has 4 sub-reports inside it - dw_child_1, dw_child_2, dw_child_3 (all three placed in the Detail band of dw_composite) and dw_child_4 (placed in the summary...
Krishna Mohan Gullap Krishna Mohan Gullap
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Powerbuilder Window X and Y Positions - Integer Overflow
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  1. Last updated 8 hours ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 48 minutes ago
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Hello, we are currently implementing our own logic to save window positions on multiple screen, that also adjusts to different monitor configurations. We have major problems with big screen sizes since the x and y of windows are integers. This cause...
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  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  Window
Andreas Müller Andreas Müller
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder ORA Oracle driver with Oracle 23ai
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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
  1. PowerBuilder
CLOBS >32k from oracle stored procedures and PB 22r3
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  James Levin replied 3 hours 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?
  1.  Oracle
  2.  Stored Procedure
James Levin James Levin
  1. PowerBuilder
PB2025 solution : Compilation failed, code = -1073741502.
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  1. Last updated 10 hours ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 9 hours ago
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[ERROR] Compilation failed, code = -1073741502.
Bill Gates Bill Gates
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SQL Server Varchar(MAX) fields
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 17 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
Assistance Required: PowerBuilder Database Setup Issue
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  2.  mike S replied 18 hours ago
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Dear Team, I am currently facing an issue while setting up the PowerBuilder database. The following error is being displayed: "Oracle library OCL.DLL could not be loaded." I have verified that the PowerBuilder version is correct. However, I no...
Charitha G Charitha G
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GoogleCharts and ApacheEcharts integration
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 21 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
PB 2025 deploy no pdb / exe created
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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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 1 day 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
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GetCookies using Antview's WebView2 ActiveX Control
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Gregory Rusak replied 1 day 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
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Nested Sub-report Using Snapdevelpo
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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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
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Error when try to save Word document to PDF using OLE/Word.
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 day ago
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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
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reference name of current text object in datawindow expression
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 days 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
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PowerBuilder 2025 PBProject Deploy Properties Storage Location?
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Shane Ward replied 2 days 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 3 days ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 days ago
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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
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Dynamic rows and columns with a Json string
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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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
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Not working: DisableBind=0 in combination with Identity='SCOPE_IDENTITY()'
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Erwin Anema replied 3 days ago
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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 1 week ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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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
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WebBrowser - save PDF problem
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Michael Krul replied 3 days ago
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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
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