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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 12 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
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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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SQLCA.SQLCODE and SQLCA.SQLDBCODE not capturing database error
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Sekhar Chitta replied 4 hours 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
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List All Fonts Installed on Workstation
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Zachary Curtis replied 9 hours ago
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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
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Database painter - drop column
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Rich Gibson replied 12 hours ago
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I'm still learning the PB2025 IDE from (PB6.0) and I've encountered a situation where I need to drop a column in a table. I've tried using the database painter objects list and when I right click on a field in one of the tables I can see a "drop colu...
Rich Gibson Rich Gibson
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PowerServer Datawindow column issue with SQL Server and column of type char > length 32766
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  1. Last updated 17 hours ago
  2.  Dustin Sellers replied 12 hours 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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Error when try to save Word document to PDF using OLE/Word.
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  1. Last updated 18 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 13 hours 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 + '\' ...
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  2.  OLE
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Jesper Trebbien Jesper Trebbien
  1. PowerBuilder
Why save as xlsx cannot work for PB2022 on WIN2016 server
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  1. Last updated 7 months ago
  2.  Heiko Bergner replied 13 hours ago
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Dear Appeon:        We tried the Powerbuilder 2022 R3, and try to use the datawindow saveas function to save data into excel file. we noticed that xlsx format are also supported in the PB2022, but unfortunately, the compiled application works well ...
  1.  Excel
  2.  PowerBuilder
Song Tom Song Tom
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Cloud Launcher could not start after update browser
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  1. Last updated 15 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 13 hours ago
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We have PowerBuilder Professional Edition IDE version 2022 R2 build 2819 and it is working fine till Mozilla Firefox version 128 / Google Chrome 128. Now we upgrade all browser with latest version like Mozilla 135 and Chrome 133, after upgrading bro...
ILMS Centre ILMS Centre
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How to change update.bmp in CloudAppLauncher
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 13 hours ago
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Hi. I'm running PB 2022R3 Build 3397. We are trying to brand the CloudAppLauncher loading screens. We created a loading_ica.gif and an update.bmp. I added both files to the "External files" Files preloaded in uncompressed format in the PowerServer...
John Raghanti John Raghanti
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PowerBuilder 2025 PBProject Deploy Properties Storage Location?
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  1. Last updated 15 hours 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
PB2025 GR Date?
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  1. Last updated 16 hours ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 15 hours ago
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I see the beta period for PB 2025 has ended. Is there an expected date for GR? Just looking to plan the migration from WS to SOL in our product so it is timed nicely with our product release.
Jeff Martin Jeff Martin
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Request for Official License Certificate for PowerBuilder
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Hello, I would like to request official software license certificates for the PowerBuilder licenses currently in use. Is it possible to obtain formal license certificates for the software? In particular, I would like to request certificates for th...
sangyong baek sangyong baek
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Code signing for $10/month using azure trusted signing
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 day ago
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Has anyone tried this yet? I'm planning to try this after my current cert expires. FYI - New azure code signing service that includes the certification and HSM for 10/month. Typical EV certs cost well over 200+ year. Works with signtool as well a...
mike S mike S
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PFC database
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 1 day ago
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Hi, I am probably being a bit stupid here but I want to run the PFC app PEAT - and i get database not found. I cannot see any .db in the PFC download ver 2022 Where do i get the database from please thanks in advance Andrew
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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datawindow filter code
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Andrew Davis replied 1 day ago
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Hopefully someone can help I am sure that at some point i have seen enhanced / demo code for the default filter window or sort window string sznull setnull(sznull) dw_1.setfilter(sznull) dw_1.filter() and the equivalent sort features, but i...
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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PB2022 JVM Problems
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 day ago
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I am setting up PB2022 to use the JDBC driver using jdk 1.6 but I am having some problems. The JVM is not loading in the java tab page of the system options windows. Also when i click on the view jvm classpath button nothing happens.
jorge gonzalez jorge gonzalez
  1. PowerBuilder
Non visual data window NULLABLE error
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Esau Redwan replied 2 days ago
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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
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SetItemStatus does not change to NotModified
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  mike S replied 2 days ago
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Dear all,   I am having a problem with setting a columns status to NotModiefied!, look here dw_list.SetItem(ll_row, "workitemstatus", 'Y')ldws_status = dw_list.getItemStatus(ll_row, 'workitemstatus', Primary! ) -- now it is dataModified!ll_ret = d...
Thorsten Kummer Thorsten Kummer
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Access sub-report on a nested datawindow
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 days 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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GetCookies using Antview's WebView2 ActiveX Control
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  1. Last updated 4 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 days ago
3 replies
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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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WebBrowser - save PDF problem
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon 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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