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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
Datawindow Query Mode with Stored procedure as source
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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We are having an issue where a search datawindow, that uses a Stored procedure as the data source just does not seem to work properly in Query mode. Any other datawindow works along with views.   Has anyone else had this work. Meaning building a da...
Richard Carrier Richard Carrier
  1. PowerBuilder
System tree don't show workspace
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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Hi community, I currently use PB 12.5 Build 2511 and I have the following inconvenience: When opening some Workspace, the System Tree does not show the workspace objects, but instead shows the Drives of my PC. Any ideas?
  1.  PB Classic
  2.  PowerBuilder
Frankz Camasca Frankz Camasca
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow Validation Expression help
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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Hello! I'm on PB 2019, Build 2082 running SQL Server 2012. I've got a column that is numeric (8,3) for precision. One of our users entered 11121256.333, which obviously causes an error when trying to insert it into the database. My question is, how...
John Raghanti John Raghanti
  1. PowerBuilder
Auditing Triggers + Single SQLCA Transaction
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Matthew Balent replied 5 years ago
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PowerBuilder classic, currently using PB 2017 SQL Server    I have a large old PowerBuilder application + satellite applications. Like many large old PowerBuilder applications it uses SQLCA for 99% of its transaction handling. It also uses stored ...
  1.  Embedded SQL
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  Trigger
Aron Cox Aron Cox
  1. PowerBuilder
SySAM license server issue
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Scott Gorke replied 5 years ago
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Hi guys, When I start Powerbuilder, I am greeted with a message "The Sybase SySAM license was not validated." I added the line "LogSySAM=1" under the "PB" section of PB.ini, to capture the pb120_sysam.log file. But it didn't generate a SySAM log fi...
Scott Gorke Scott Gorke
  1. PowerBuilder
PBDOM RemoveNamespaceDeclaration()
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
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Hi all! I am trying handle a SOAP result, and the first thing I am trying to do is to remove the namespaces. I use the RemoveNamespaceDeclaration() and instead of removing both namespace and prefixes, it removes only the namespace,the prefix remains...
  1.  PBDOM
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Yiannis Papadomichelakis Yiannis Papadomichelakis
  1. PowerBuilder
Themes - no themes tab in application object (Win10 Ent.)
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Oliver Leterski replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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Hi, today I wanted to start using the new designs from PowerBuilder. I clicked on the button 'additional properties' in the application object.The themes tab, however, was just a blank white page.I've tried the same on a virtual machine and can cho...
Oliver Leterski Oliver Leterski
  1. PowerBuilder
Changing file ownership when copying files
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 5 years ago
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We have a requirement to copy files from the client to file server using PB app.  When using FileCopy() I see the file ownership on the file server is of the PB app user.  We need to change the file ownership to another windows account for security r...
Dave Contessi Dave Contessi
  1. PowerBuilder
Drag and Drop from application to Windows Explorer
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 5 years ago
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I am needing to implement Drag and Drop functionality with my program.  I have successfully put in the ability to drag into the app from windows explorer.  I am struggling to find a way to be able to drag files back out of the app to Windows Explorer...
Rick Domogalik Rick Domogalik
  1. PowerBuilder
Shared PBL between applications calling code in the application's PBL
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Daniel Vivier replied 5 years ago
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We have a common PBL used by two different applications. It is compiled separately and used as a PBD by those applications, so it has no access to objects or global variables etc. in the application PBLs. I have a situation where I have a window in ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
workspace mobile phones
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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  Good Morning We are distributing a workspace for mobile applications through an .apk and when installing the file on mobile phones, we have security restrictions that prevent us from installing. The user must manually disable the secu...
Javier Garcia Martin Javier Garcia Martin
  1. PowerServer Mobile (Obsolete)
Use timer event without window
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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It's possible to use timing object in app without window object ?! App start schedule process and don't window and i use timer event to start process.
  1.  Event
  2.  Timer
iliyan iliev iliyan iliev
  1. PowerBuilder
web services SOAP - WS-Security / PasswordText
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Stefano Calciati replied 5 years ago
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Salve Marco, ho un problema, devo consumare un web services SOAP con autenticazione WS-Security e PasswordText. Ho verificato che il SOAP connection  .net non mi permette di consumare tale webservices. Ha qualche consiglio in merito da darmi per po...
  1.  Authentication
  2.  SOAP
Stefano Calciati Stefano Calciati
  1. PowerBuilder
FileReadEX not working with large files (>300M)?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 5 years ago
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Hi!                   Just wondering if anyone would know if there are any plans (by Appeon) to allow the FileReadEx function to read files (into blobs) that are > than 300 M in size?  Currently, any attempt to do this just results in an error (my ...
David Motty David Motty
  1. PowerBuilder
Cannot find the power builder logs
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
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Hello,   I am very new to powerbuilder. I have a screen to save/update Japanese characters in Database. (Sybase ASE) But I get a DB error code 102. I want to check what is the exact query being run which throws this exception. Where I can I find ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
sharmistha sinha sharmistha sinha
  1. PowerBuilder
pbc170.exe compilation
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hello, I have a query regarding compilation in PB 2017 R2.  I recently deleted code in my data window file(w_splash_screen). I did a full build and deploy in PB 2017 IDE. I see that my changes are reflected.  Locally, when I compile using command ...
Reema Kurane Reema Kurane
  1. PowerBuilder
sybase datawindow ps not working on windows 10
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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Hi team, 'sybase datawindow ps' not working on windows 10 whereas it was working fine in window 7 Now the end users are started using window 10 and reported issue that it's not working please let me know how to fix this issue.    Thanks, Aaron
Aaron Anbu Johan Abraham Aaron Anbu Johan Abraham
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder 2017 R3 IDE won't launch
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Gene Kanten replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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I had to reinstall PowerBuilder 12.5.2 today and now my PowerBuilder 2017 R3 IDE won't display. When I launch the PowerBuilder 2017 R3 program it does the licensing check and then disappears. The process exists in the taskbar but when I hover over i...
Gene Kanten Gene Kanten
  1. PowerBuilder
Problem with 3-state Checkbox
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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I use a lot of checkboxes in my PB applications, but I've never had the need for a "3-state" checkbox until now.  The programming syntax seems pretty straightforward, but, in my application, the control is NOT working as expected.  Is there anything ...
Jim Klocksin Jim Klocksin
  1. PowerBuilder
Precision lost when exporting large numbers using ExportJSON
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Ricardo Jasso replied 5 years ago
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Hi all, When exporting large numbers to JSON using the ExportJSON DataWindow method the numbers are converted to scientific notation and precision is lost. For example, a number like 284,932,785.56 gets converted to something like 2.8493E+08 (don't...
  1.  JSON
Ricardo Jasso Ricardo Jasso
  1. PowerBuilder

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