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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 4 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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  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
Does PB 2021 currently support Snowflake
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 2 years ago
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Howdy, I need to find out if PB 2021 supports access to Snowflake and if so, what driver can I use?  And 32 -or-64 bit driver? Thanks!  
Richard Murray Richard Murray
  1. PowerBuilder
Database Painter: ODBC Connection does not allow insert, et al.
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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PowerBuilder 2019R3, b2703Windows 10 64 bit platformDatabase PainterConnected to an ODBC databaseWhen I use the DB Painter to connect to an Oracle database, I can insert rows, delet rows, select rows, tab from column to column on a single row - and i...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Registering a new license server on the Appeon website for Power Builder
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 2 years ago
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Hi All, We have setup a new license server for power builder. Can someone help in suggesting how can I register my new license server on the Appeon website? I already have a license on the server. Thanks, Saurabh    
Yamuna Damodarasamy Yamuna Damodarasamy
  1. PowerBuilder
compile error on reference arguments to eternal function.
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  kevin kevin rowe replied 2 years ago
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I'm trying to call a simple dll function to measure a piece of text, to see if it will fit in a confined space without being clipped. I have defined an external DLL in C# and have linked it into the PB source using external function.   In my first...
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  C#
  3.  External Functions
kevin kevin rowe kevin kevin rowe
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Select copied runtime
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 2 years ago
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I copied a co-worker's runtimes to my computer but they do not appear in the "System Options" window so that I can select one of them. How can I solve this? Thank you.  
Eduardo G. Eduardo G.
  1. PowerBuilder
Fetch Global Ip and Number of instances
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Jinu Nair replied 2 years ago
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Hi, Can someone share the power script code for the below? 1. Fetch the global and local IP of the application used by the user during the runtime of Appeon web applicaiton. 2. Find the number of instances of the application in the Appeon server. ...
Jinu Nair Jinu Nair
  1. PowerBuilder
Automated testing for PowerBuilder2019 needs a deleted flag existing in PB12.5
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Ilia Gurevich replied 2 years ago
5 replies
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Hello, we have updated from PowerBuilder 12.5 to PowerBuilder 2019R3 and have now an issue with automated testing, because the DropDown-Datawindow and Edit field elements do not have the property 'IsEnabled' anymore. In PowerBuilder 12.5 those two e...
  1.  Automated Testing
  2.  PowerBuilder
Ilia Gurevich Ilia Gurevich
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Incremental Build using PowerBuilder in 2017R3
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  mike S replied 2 years ago
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Hello Appeon Team, Is there any change in Incremental build process in PB2017R3. I am trying to run the Incremental build by putting some objects into PBL. After build, It is crashing the application. Is it ok to build PBD using Incremental build op...
Vipin Dwivedi Vipin Dwivedi
  1. PowerBuilder
license for install powerbuilder on server
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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about license. we are plan to install powerbuilder on a server to automate the build (by using CLI) and deploy. what kind of license to i need to install and use power builder on the build server? Regards,
  1.  License
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qingyang kong qingyang kong
  1. PowerBuilder
QuickBooks Desktop API
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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Has anyone successfully integrated a PowerBuilder app with the QuickBooks Desktop API, preferably using the QBFC (QuickBooks Foundation Classes)? It's all done through COM, which ought to be relatively easy in PB. The place I'm stuck is in finding o...
  1.  COM
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
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PowerServer 2021 Build Error - Duplicate Objects
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Thomas Rolseth replied 2 years ago
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I’m getting errors when building a PowerServer 2021 project for a client application – see attached.  Apparently, you can’t have duplicate objects in different libraries.  It looks like PowerServer doesn’t know which one to parse when that is the cas...
  1.  Build
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  PowerServer
  4.  Web API
Thomas Rolseth Thomas Rolseth
  1. PowerServer
How to get Microsoft Word Spell and Grammar Check to Show on Top of Everything
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  karimi Manizhe replied 2 years ago
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Hi all,   I am currently on PB 2021 Build 1506, and am trying to add Microsoft Word Spell and Grammar check into our Application. I am able to get the SpellCheck to work, however most of the time the window popups behind everything and make it ofte...
  1.  PowerBuilder
Kevin Thai Kevin Thai
  1. PowerBuilder
Resizing a BLOB?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  rsneha rani replied 2 years ago
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Hi I have an InkPicture control which saves the content by the InkPicture_1.Save(lblob_blob, 0, True) call, which generates a blob that's stored in the lblob_blob variable. Now, is it possible to resize said blob? If so, please advise how. It'd be...
CJ Lai CJ Lai
  1. PowerBuilder
Using Git Tag in powerbuilder.
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 2 years ago
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Hi. I know that creating tags isn't directly supported within PB's IDE. But I wonder if we are safe to use Tags (annotated or lightweight) in our PB projects. We investigate usage of those features using TortoiseGit. Does anyone has used - tested th...
  1.  Git
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  Versioning
Andreas Mykonios Andreas Mykonios
  1. PowerBuilder
ImportFile for XML file returning -4
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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PowerBuilder 2019 R3 build 2728 Windows 10   I am having a silly isue that is probably all my fault, but I can't seem to work it out. I am exporting four datastores to an XML file using this command      ads.SaveAs(as_file, XML!, true, EncodingU...
  1.  Import
  2.  XML
  3.  DataStore
Aron Cox Aron Cox
  1. PowerBuilder
Regarding Powerbuilder License
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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Hai, Appeon team My Appeon license (Powerbuilder + PowerServer) will expire within 2 weeks. If not renew the license what will happen my current installed powerbuilder ?.
SHAMEEM KAKKAD SHAMEEM KAKKAD
  1. PowerBuilder
New Database Connection using API Key
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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We are in the process of migrating from an on-premises database server, to cloud-based. I believe it is MS Azure. I was given the following information to connect Infomaker 2021 to the cloud-based database. I am assuming it will be an ODBC connection...
Jason Wood Jason Wood
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PowerClient -- Operation not permitted error
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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PowerBuilders,   I am looking in to PowerClient as a means of deploying our applications. However, I keep getting an error message like the one below when I invoke the "BuildDeploy PowerClient Project" option on my PowerClient project. I am using th...
  1.  PowerClient
Gary Ault Gary Ault
  1. PowerBuilder
Consuming REST services from MS Graph
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Thorsten Kummer replied 2 years ago
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Dear all,   has anyone some experience using Microsoft graph? I need to consume REST services from PowerBuilder and would like to do it using the following Powerbuilder objects: OAuthClient ,TokenRequest ,TokenResponse  Best regardsThorsten
Thorsten Kummer Thorsten Kummer
  1. PowerBuilder
Using OAuth2 in a Microsoft 365 environment
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Thorsten Kummer replied 2 years ago
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Dear all,does anybody have a code snippet for getting a token to use with further calls to the MS 365 REST api?I've got app ID, Client secret, user and password but need a tenant, which I don't have right now. I am not familiar with MS 365 and need t...
Thorsten Kummer Thorsten Kummer
  1. PowerBuilder

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