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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
6 replies
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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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12 votes
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue in Dynamic creation of DW
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hello, Using PB 2017R3, PostgreSQL 11 With the following query, we create a datawindow at runtime and issue few modify statements to format the datawindow.   Since the query is from multi-tables, we expect the table name(s) to get prefixed with th...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
JSONParser and Nulls
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Has anything been done in PB 2019-R2 or R3 to prevent aborts on NULL? I know about the function to check for null but I was hoping that it would be enhanced to not need that.
Roland Smith Roland Smith
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow painter opens very slowly
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
I have just run into a weird problem, affecting both 2017 R3 and 2019 R2 on the same machine, simultanously. No particular recent change except  Windows 10 updates as usual. It affects all datawindows. Trying to open any one with the painter, in any...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  IDE
Sverre Tvedt Sverre Tvedt
  1. PowerBuilder
Mobile app prevent 180 degree rotation
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello. I am working on a mobile application based on the example of appeon salesdemo mobileframe. Currently, I can lock my app in portrait mode, so if I rotate my phone 90 degrees it still remains in portrait mode, but if I flip it over, it goes to ...
Alvar Carrasco Alvar Carrasco
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
HALT not closing exe process
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 3 years ago
7 replies
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Hi PB users, We are facing a difficult issue with one client which sometimes, get the deployed EXE process not closing, and he must kill by himself the process. It's a batch process running on a Windows server 2012 without display. We have asked fo...
Pierre DETE Pierre DETE
  1. PowerBuilder
How to set datawindow picture control border weight and color attributes?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Joseph Vendra replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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Does anyone have a way to set the datawindow picture control's .Border weight and color when using Line type borders? I cannot see any additional properties so I am guess "nothing out of the box" but perhaps you have some idea of how to accomplish t...
Joseph Vendra Joseph Vendra
  1. PowerBuilder
Alternative to .Net assembly target obsolete with PB2019?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hi,   Someone have an alternative to replace .Net assembly target in PB2019 to generate a component usable with .Net application?   Thank you for help.
Patrick Therrien Patrick Therrien
  1. PowerBuilder
Some of rows and columns are getting blurred data on window after upgrading PowerBuilder application from version 2017 R2 to 2019 R3
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Benjamin Gaesslein replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
  Some of rows and columns are getting blurred data on window after upgrading PowerBuilder application from version 2017 R2 to 2019 R3. After PowerBuilder Upgrade, issue with the displaying data on window, when we run the application on the citrix ...
Namdev Gopalghare Namdev Gopalghare
  1. PowerBuilder
Httpclient, JWT Auth, and using Proxy Servers
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hi We currently have a powerbuilder app that gets and posts data via webapi with JWT authentication working sample code is below: lnv.SetRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer "+ ls_token)lnv.SendRequest("POST","https://beta.mycomp.com/getvalues",a...
erwin monreal erwin monreal
  1. PowerBuilder
save the executable and .pbd in a specific folder
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Daniel Mullings replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello everybody,when i generate an executable, is it possible to save the executable (.exe) and all related .pbd in a specific folder (other than the development one)?I tried to insert the new folder in "Executable file name" but save only the .exe f...
  1.  .EXE
ORESTE MUSCELLA ORESTE MUSCELLA
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerClient failed to upload
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Morten Lundgreen replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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Hello, I'm trying to deploy my PowerClient project. Everything working fine cos it finish to build my application, then also finish to split correctly all the PBDs, then it starts to upload the file to my remote webserver, but it stops with the foll...
Simone Olianti Simone Olianti
  1. PowerBuilder
Nested report format not mimicking the layout of the original report.
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Akash Patel replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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I have a report with enrollment statistics with both a graph and a table values, both being nested reports on the larger report. After a few entries, the data spills over onto the next nested report. I changed the nested report to show as two newspap...
Akash Patel Akash Patel
  1. PowerBuilder
Moving to Powerbuilder 2019R3
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Gbenga Owolabi replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
We have about 5 Customers using our solution developed with Powerbuilder 2017 R3. We have issues with some of them as they are not comfortable with the mode of deployment into their environmentWe want to move to Powerbuilder 2019 R3 to allow us to ma...
Gbenga Owolabi Gbenga Owolabi
  1. PowerBuilder
Infomaker License
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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How to activate the licenses of Infomaker. We have registered wit Appeon. When we try to open the Infomaker and supply the credentials then we receive the message as cannot find valid license. We have license purchased through hexagon. Kindly guide ...
Abhinandan Deorukhkar Abhinandan Deorukhkar
  1. InfoMaker
Print PDF files from folder in powerbuilder application
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi , I have one requirement, I need to print the PDF files from my local folder to default printer in my pb2019 application. I am using following code: Local External Function:  Function long ShellExecute( long hwnd,  string lpOperation, string l...
vignesh ramkumar vignesh ramkumar
  1. PowerBuilder
Speeding up continuous integration and build time
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  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Sezer Gülap replied 3 years ago
2 replies
2348 views
1 vote
Hello, We are currently building a large-ish PowerBuilder (2017 but we are in the process of migrating to 2019) application using Microsoft's DevOps pipelines. Our current build script takes quite a lot of time as we: cleanup everything copy all...
  1.  Build
  2.  Compiler
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Arnaud Bailly Arnaud Bailly
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2021 what's new in PowerBuilder except for the PowerServer stuff ?
  1. Resolved
  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Christophe Dufourmantelle replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hi , Does the PB 2021 include other enhancements than the PowerServer support ? Back in the Sybase days Sybase invested SO MUCH in all kinds of java and EA server related stuff for PB. It was a complete failure from a-z and almost nobody ever set a...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Steen Jakobsen Steen Jakobsen
  1. Beta Testing
Using the Microsoft Text Driver ODBC driver to read text files
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Steen Jakobsen replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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I need to read some data from tab-separated text files with a row of column headers, where I know that certain column names will always be there, but don't know whether they will always be in the same order, or what other columns might be there. So l...
  1.  ODBC
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  Text
  4.  DataStore
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
PS2021 Questions
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Milton Jiménez replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Hi Friends, I am trying PS2021, the lifetime of a session, how could I control it?because the service falls(api) if it is not used in a short time The system connects with the same transact SQLCA to several databases, dynamically, as it would be do...
Milton Jiménez Milton Jiménez
  1. PowerServer
Powerbuilder and Security
  1. Resolved
  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Christophe Dufourmantelle replied 3 years ago
4 replies
4835 views
0 votes
Does anyone know of any tools that might be able to analyze a Powerbuilder classic app for potential security vulnerabilities?  Sort of like an HP Fortify for native Powerscript?  I saw an answer to a similar question that it may be possible with cer...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  Security
Jeff Nesler Jeff Nesler
  1. PowerBuilder

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