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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 1 year 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. :)
Hello,
When I "Connect to Workspace" in PB 2025.3711 using the SVN native interface to a workspace with one target, and the application object of the target does not have the appruntimeversion instance variable, PB automatically adds this variable w...
Silent uninstallation of the PowerServer client applications from end-user PCs
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Gururaja Udupa replied 3 days ago
Hi,
I would like to perform a silent uninstallation of the PowerServer client applications from end-user PCs using PowerShell. I attempted to run Uninstall.exe with the /s (silent) parameter via PowerShell and the Command Prompt, but the applicati...
Issue when we want to print a PDF file
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Christophe Feyte replied 3 days ago
Hello, we are using PB2022 Build 1892.
We are having a problem when we want to print an existing PDF.We have a list of documents from which we can choose to print one or more at a time. After this initial print, we generate a PDF file of the printed...
Sign a xml file with a certificate (a1, a3...)
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Eden Allen replied 3 days ago
Hi All!
How sign a xml file with a certificate x.509?
Here we use many many xml files to exchange information between companies and we need sign with certificate x.509 (A1, A3...) these files to guarantee the security...
Is there a resource in PB ...
FIPS 140-3 Certification?
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- Last updated 3 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
In our modern world of computing that includes dangers as well as regulations, by any chance, does the Powerbuilder cryptoobject follow FIPS PUB 140-2 or 140-3 and are the certificates available?
Are there any other certifications that could be help...
Change Left Margin and Right Margin of dw runtime
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 days ago
I want to change the Left Margin and Right Margin of a data window and datastore at runtime. Is it possible, if so how? It will be helpful if I get the response asap.
I tried below but not working.
dw_1.Modify("datawindow.print.lefttmargin=60" ...
Unable to login to PowerBuilder IDE with paid license after switching to new laptop
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 days ago
Hi All,
I am using PowerBuilder 2021 with license (IDE for development), when i switched to new laptop and downloaded PowerBuilder from Appeon and tried to login , getting error message Account is already logged in , I have already logged out of o...
Issue while Parsing XML Response after httpclient call
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 days ago
We are trying to migrate the SOAP calls to Httpclient as we would be migrating PB from 2017 to 2022.
Below is the XML response that we are getting when call using httpclient object
ls_response = '?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?
soap:Envelop...
Export to Excel12 in PB2025, file not created
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 4 days ago
After migrating my program to PB 2025 I was notified by a user that the Excel export (to XLSX) no longer worked. Export to Excel XLS still works. There are no errors. The program thinks it is creating a file, but nothing is there. I've looked at all ...
different ways of rebuilding
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 days ago
Aside from full build an incremental build, there is deploy, regenerate, refresh, and "build runtime library". Yes, obviously these take place at different levels and scopes ... but aside from that there seems to be different actions / behaviors /...
MS SQL server connection
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hi, I hope someone can help
PB2022 R3
MSSQL
windows 11 windows 2019
Hi, i have been using the SNC SQL Native Client to connect to a SQL server at a customer site, they have recently pathched the server and i am now having connection issues
I...
windows upgrade and offline license
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Vladimir Bijelic replied 1 week ago
Dear all,
Is it safe to upgrade workstation from Windows 10 to Windows 11 with power builder IDE activated by offline license? Does license stay valid after upgrade?
ThanksVladimir
ApplyTheme returns -1 at runtime (PB2022 R3 Build 3441)
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hello,I am experiencing an issue with ApplyTheme() in PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3441.In the IDE, the following call works as expected:ApplyTheme("C:\Test\theme\Flat Design Grey")The theme is applied correctly.However, when running the compiled execu...
I have an error in a function. When I try to edit the function the painter refuses saying that it must first be successfully regenerated. Which I can't do because of the error.Where do I go from here?
Oh ... the error is "Function with no value ...
PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1892
When viewing a local PDF file, the Download button doesn't do anything. Is this a bug or a design choice? I haven't had a chance to try it with a PDF on the internet.
I'm trying to use PBAutobuild with Jenkins.I've configured the json file to connect to SVN and download the updated sources.If I run the PBAutobuild command from the Windows command line, I have no problems and it works. However, if I run the same co...
HTTPClient parsing response not working, moving away from SOAP
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Nilanjan Chatterjee replied 1 week ago
Hi there,
We are moving to use HTTPClient away from SOAP. as our version of PB is going out of support
I have an XML response which I am trying to interrogate so as to store the values into a result structure - named tns__DocResult
The structure h...
Cant find resource file only for Solution and not workspace
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
I converted to a solution after compiling and using my app since 2015. We converted from a 2025 workspace to a 2025 solution.
Now I'm getting these errors at the end of the deploy about a missing resource file, but they are there just like always ...
Need help migrating old PB11.5 app to use latest version of PFC libraries.
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- John Fauss replied 1 week ago
We are using PB 11.5 Build 4675 and uses the PFC libraries from, I think, 2005.I need some help in migrating to the latest PFC libraries that I got fromhttps://github.com/OpenSourcePFCLibraries/2025-WorkspaceI copied my app to another location on my ...
Hello,
Has anyone used PowerBuilder 2019 R3 and GitLab successfully?
Thank you.
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