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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 8 months 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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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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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
.Net WebService
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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Hello all I am Trying to run a .Net WS and i am getting the following message ( in the IE ) : Line 1:   What does it mean ? Using 2017 r2 , running on the same machine where the pb installed + databse
  1.  Service
Moshe Tangi Moshe Tangi
  1. PowerBuilder
Installable Web App - 3rd Party OLE, OCXs, DLLS and our own DLLs
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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I have a question about the Installable Web App. Right now, we have an extremely complex large 12 year old app that runs lots of "medical type" offices from a citrix server. The app uses several 3rd party OCXx/DLLs. I tried to run a sample a...
  1.  IWA
John Valentin John Valentin
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Migrating Datawindows
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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I have a legacy application which has many (>500) datawindow objects (*.srd) which were created in earlier versions of PowerBuilder. Some have "release 6;", "release 9;", "release 11.5;", etc in the header. Particularly with version 6 datawindows the...
  1.  Migration
Larry Peters Larry Peters
  1. PowerBuilder
Git and merge conflicts how to deal with PBLs? (Powerbuilder)
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Arthur Hefti replied 6 years ago
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Lets imagine the following scenario: 1. I create a new branch (feature_X) and switch to the develop branch. 2. I make a change ... git notices that two files have changed: Once the x2.pbl file and once the source file from ws_objects. I commit...
  1.  Build
  2.  Git
Tareq Haschemi Tareq Haschemi
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2017 R2 - Slowness Running from IDE
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  John Hnat replied 6 years ago
5 replies
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Has anybody else noticed slowness when running applications from the PB 2017 R2 IDE? I migrated a copy of our application from 12.5 (our current production version) to 2017 R2, and found it to be painfully slow (e.g., our applications splash scree...
  1.  IDE
John Hnat John Hnat
  1. PowerBuilder
database included?
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
3 replies
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I am curious if there is a database included in the PB purchase? I dont see anything in the docs or FAQ but I might have missed it. It has been a LONG time since I purchased PB for myself but I think it used to come with a copy of SQL Anywhere tha...
  1.  Database
Richard Frantz Richard Frantz
  1. PowerBuilder
Web Service
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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Helo all , I have an desktop app , using pb 2017 r2 . running and connecting to mssql  2014 DB . The pb + database are  installed on the same sever Now , I need to develop .Net WebService . ( it going to be published on the same server) . I ...
  1.  Service
Moshe Tangi Moshe Tangi
  1. PowerBuilder
PBC170 testing
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Tom Jiang @Appeon replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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Hi there pb fellows... I am testing the autocompile utility (Appeon PB 2017 R2). Everything worked like a charm, and i was able to put the script as a planned operation without troubles. My question is: is it normal that the utility is very slow c...
  1.  Build
  2.  PBC
Simone Olianti Simone Olianti
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerserver error on date of datawindow
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Marco Meoni replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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Hi all I have a app on power builder 2017R2, i have a column date when i test on desktop it works but when i deployed to poderserver the column date give me error No Pass Validation, Any suggest?
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  DATETIME
  3.  PowerServer
David Castillo David Castillo
  1. PowerBuilder
Is there a Datawindow expression to get actual row ID
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Lars Mosegaard replied 6 years ago
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Is there a datawindow expression that can be used to get the actual row id of a row.  Similar to GetRowIDFromRow function.   Follow-up, thanks for every ones ideas.  I was trying to avoid adding a column just to keep track of a specific row.  R...
  1.  Data
David Vasconcelos David Vasconcelos
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow Release in Export after Migrating
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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After migrating my source to PB2017, the exports for the datawindows still say "Release 8" (Migrating from PB8). The only way I see to change that line is to open EVERY datawindow and save them...even without making any actual changes. Does thi...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  Export
  3.  Migration
  4.  Release
Kevin Teynor Kevin Teynor
  1. PowerBuilder
How to activate/deactivate the keyboard functions with the PFC
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Kim Berghall replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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Hello Developers. Could you Help Me with a problem I have with the PFC, in my current Job I have an application that what makes use of PFC and I have a problem because the previous developer disabled the delete key and to use it I have to press  th...
  1.  Build
Martin H Rmz Martin H Rmz
  1. PowerBuilder
Set The Cursor Position
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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1 vote
Helo all   How do i set the cursor at the end of the text in a specific field in dw ? using pb 2017 r2   thanks  
  1.  Cursor
Moshe Tangi Moshe Tangi
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerServer Error connecting using ODBC
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Appeon Support Team replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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using AppeonServer 2016 Under .net i must use ODBC cause is a INGRES database and the only way we found to do it. if we can not succed all our project will fail. When i define a DataSource in the AEM the results are    ...
  1.  ODBC
  2.  PowerServer
Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
MS SQL Server 2016 Timestamp and PowerServer Web
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Appeon Support Team replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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I have my application upgraded to PB 17 Build 1756.  Works great so far as a desktop application connecting to MS SQL Server 2016 using the SNC SQL Native Client driver.  I deployed it to the PowerServer Web successfully and am able to retrieve da...
  1.  PowerServer
  2.  TIME
Anna Uden Anna Uden
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Can't deploy due to library list
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Kim Berghall replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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Just migrated our application from 11.5, with no errors.  During the migrate, I changed the pbdom115 library entry to pbdom170 and thats fine.   The problem I now have is that when I try to deploy the applications I get an error due to the project li...
  1.  Library
Adrian Parker Adrian Parker
  1. PowerBuilder
Postgresql ODBC database profile in PB 2017
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwee replied 6 years ago
3 replies
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I was trying to setup the ODBC database profile in PB2017 for Postgresql but gotten the error: SQLSTATE: IM014 The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application. Pls advise how to resolve this error. p...
  1.  POST
Joshua Woon Joshua Woon
  1. PowerBuilder
Generar Ejecutable en power builder 2017
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Erica Conde replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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BUenos dias  a todos   Estoy Generando ONU ejecutable para poder constructor de 2017 Pero me pide de los Archivos DLL  Como PBMV2017.dll, Donde los puedo encontar los Archivos  de Recursos , no los encuentro   Gracias
  1.  Build
carlos efrain carlos efrain
  1. PowerBuilder
Unable to upload a file with HttpClient
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Bruce Armstrong replied 6 years ago
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We are trying to upload a file to a Web Server using new PB HttpClient object. So far no luck. Here is java code that we trying to migrate to PB:             connection.setRequestMethod("POST");             connection.setRequestProperty("Connecti...
  1.  HTTPClient
Yuri Denshchik Yuri Denshchik
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerServer .ini files
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
3 replies
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I am testing PowerServer and the .ini file works fine for getting static info that I have set. I also user GetProfile and SetProfile for data the client selects and this does not seem to keep values.  Ho can I let the user set and keep values?
  1.  PowerServer
John Murphy John Murphy
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)

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