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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
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
of_getclientip Problem in a Machine with hyper-V or Virtual Box
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hello All, I have a machine with Virtual Box and a Docker Virtual machine installed Both Create a "network addapter" with ther own IP when i open the a PowerServer PB2017 Application in any browser the of_getclientip returns the IP of them and not...
Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
PB 2017 R3 1088 build, Issue with inbuilt TXT Control
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Ravi Nath replied 5 years ago
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Hi,   I have deployed powerbuilder 2017 R3 1880 build along with all required rtf control files as per powerbuilder document to a client machine along with other PB runtime files. My app runs fine accept when I open the Rich text control in edit mo...
Ravi Nath Ravi Nath
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PB and Cassandra
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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Any one have done something with PB2017-9 And Cassandra. i need to read (only Read) some data saved in cassanda 
Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
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C# Generation with Progress Database
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Douglas Lee replied 5 years ago
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I'm trying to generate C# web service for a progress database and keep getting the error.... [DataDirect][ODBC Progress OpenEdge Wire Protocol driver][OPENEDGE]Syntax error in SQL statement at or about ") = 'autoincrement' then 1 else 0 end AS" (107...
  1.  Database
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  Database Provider
  4.  C# Model generator
Douglas Lee Douglas Lee
  1. PowerBuilder
dw Horizontal scroll in Web Application
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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 all,   I have a problem that I can't solve with the synchronized scroll of 2 datawindow. case : dw_opt an header freeform datawindow dw_opt_h a body freeform datawindow these 2 data windows are very long (width property) so i need to scroll ...
alessandro feltrin alessandro feltrin
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non standard characters
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 5 years ago
5 replies
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I wander if anyone has any advice on storing non standard characters in powerbuilder.   I am writing an application that stores company names for firms across europe and there are many that have these special characters such as Ç , ö and ä   any...
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerBuilder
not able to generate .exe file for the project . The current library list is different from the library list contained within this project
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  N P replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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Hi ,  I am not able to generate .exe file for the project . i am receiving following error    ---------- Deploy: Deploy of workspace PBWorkSpace1   (10:03:19 AM)  ---------- Deploy of target poms_reporting  --------- Deploying project poms_prod_...
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N P N P
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Remove titlebar and border in sheets in mdi app.
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Jan Hoppe replied 5 years ago
6 replies
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I want to know if it is possible to get rid of the MDI-sheet titlebar and border? (using themes or some other way) If not, are there plans for such a feature?
Jan Hoppe Jan Hoppe
  1. PowerBuilder
SQL Anywhere via odbc BUG: literal real values map to decimal(0) in datawindow
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  André Monz replied 5 years ago
6 replies
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Our large applications use SQL Anywhere 12 and ODBC.  We are using Powerbuilder 17 Build 1880.   If you try to put a very simple and very basic query into a datawindow such as... SELECT "budget"."consumer_id", 0.00 as ohcrap FROM "budget" then t...
Derek Hammonds Derek Hammonds
  1. PowerBuilder
Is the Powerbuilder 2017 is compatible with Win server 2016
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Livingtone S replied 5 years ago
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Is the Powerbuilder 2017 is compatible with Win server 2016
Livingtone S Livingtone S
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Application cloud deployment
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Dear Experts, I like to get an expert advice on our application's cloud deployment. Our application is in PB 2017. (migrated from PB 9 to PB 2017 a year back). PFC: using same PFC libraries used in PB 9 DB Connectivity: using SQL Native Client 20...
  1.  Amazon AWS
  2.  Azure
  3.  Cloud
  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Ganesan Rajan Ganesan Rajan
  1. PowerBuilder
Get visible row , datawindow scroll
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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HI All,   i am going to try my best to explain my problem.   I have a datawindow where multiple records are being retrieved. The design ( the heigth) of the datawindow is designed that only one row is visible, but there's a scrollbar to scroll in...
John Vanleeuwe John Vanleeuwe
  1. PowerBuilder
Creating a RESTful web service in Appeon PB?
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  SAP Business One Delhi replied 5 years ago
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Hi, Ive just started looking at web service creation in Appeon Powerbuilder and I can see how to create a SOAP webservice with the .Net Web Service target, but is it possible to create a RESTful webservice as well?  If not, is that one of the planned...
  1.  REST
Daryl Foster Daryl Foster
  1. PowerBuilder
Windows Function to Connect NAS Drive is not working
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 5 years ago
5 replies
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Hi All,  We are using windows function WNetUseConnectionA and WNetCancelConnectionA in our power builder application to connect to a NAS drive which is not working and getting error message saying Mapping is failed due to multiple connections to the...
Balaji Pinjala Balaji Pinjala
  1. PowerBuilder
Modified dates of ALL PBDs were updated with pbc190 /i
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
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Greetings, I'm doing test pbc190 and pb2019. In case of deploying in pb2019 by incremental, only updated pbl and pbd are updated. But in case of pbc190 by incremental, all pbls and pbds are updated. Is it bug of pbc190? I want to update only mod...
Sunhye Yoon Sunhye Yoon
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2019 can Save to SQL SERVER 2016 using IDE but not runtime?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Karl Wooley replied 5 years ago
6 replies
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We are currently trying out a trial version of PB 2019.  We are running against a SQL SERVER 2016 DB. Using the IDE we're able to connect, retrieve and update to the database.  When the .EXE is built we can only connect and retrieve from the DB.  No ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  SQL Server
Karl Wooley Karl Wooley
  1. PowerBuilder
Subversion Questions - Powerbuilder 2017 R3
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  David Edison replied 5 years ago
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Our current version control system is antiquated and needs to be replaced.  I am giving subversion a try because I need to be able to have the capability to lock.  I followed the basic setup from Bruce's video and have the following questions/issues....
David Vasconcelos David Vasconcelos
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PB 2017 R3 IDE crashing
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Devang Modi replied 5 years ago
5 replies
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Greetings, I just recently upgraded PB to 2017 R3 from PB 2017. No issues noted in upgrade and full rebuild was done with no errors.  I am now seeing my IDE crash when I run my application. This happens when opening a window using 'OpenSheetWithPar...
Mark Smithwick Mark Smithwick
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COM lookup and strong named assemblies
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
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Hello If several different strong named assembly releases are deployed into the GAC (e.g.  Sybase.powerbuilder.core      v4.0_17.0.0.0_12345897d75b      v4.0_19.0.0.0_65789084e76b ) or in our case OLF.Agtech.Shared  etc.. How can we specify a ...
yakov werde yakov werde
  1. PowerBuilder
Dynamic OLECUSTOMCONTROL ?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
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Hello fellow legacy modernization travelers Is it possible to do dynamic OleCustomControls ? When an ActiveX is placed on a visual container in the painter, the control is declared in the source code and the painter glues in some binary hidden stuf...
yakov werde yakov werde
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