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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 2 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
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pbdom170.pbd and Native SVN
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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How are we supposed to handle imported PBD files (like pbdom170.pbd) together with Native SVN? If I just include the PBD in the Library List of the target, Native SVN always (unsuccessfully) tries to add the contents of the pbd to the repository. ...
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Markus Eckert Markus Eckert
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Masking and Unmasking field
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 6 years ago
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Hmm.  If this appears twice, please excuse me. Trying to mask a column in a datawindow (SSN) so upon retrieval its appears as ***-**-1234 (the last four of the SSN). Then what the user clicks on the row of interest in the datawindow the SSN is ...
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Mitchell Ryan Mitchell Ryan
  1. PowerBuilder
Bitbucket.org
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Bruce Armstrong replied 6 years ago
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Hi Someone uses https://bitbucket.org with PB2017R2 ( for company private project ) ? Is it a good alternative to GitHUB ? Thy GMY
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
  1. PowerBuilder
Is TortoiseSVN 1.6.16 compatible with PB2017 R2?
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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Hi, Is TortoiseSVN 1.6.16 compatible with PB2017 R2? We use TortoiseSVN 1.6.16.  We are on Win 7/32 bit for now and will eventually be going to Win 10 but for now we will need to migrate to PB2017 R2 and EBF01 on Win 7. Many thanks! Pauli...
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Pauline Aubertin Pauline Aubertin
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Powerbuilder IDE stops working during build of application
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Greg Heiner replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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I installed PB2017 R2 fresh (after uninstalling PB2017) and migrated my source.  All went well.  I can run the app from the IDE and things look and perform perfectly, as far as I have tested.  Im now trying to create an executable app so we can do mo...
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Greg Heiner Greg Heiner
  1. PowerBuilder
Opposite of OLE Control "InsertFile" method
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Dan Harrel replied 6 years ago
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We use the olecontrol.insertFile (...) method to populate an olecontrol object with a file system document - for example, "foo.xlsx".  How can we now extract the document out of the olecontrol, and write it back into a file system document?  We...
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Dan Harrel Dan Harrel
  1. PowerBuilder
help installing PowerServer Tookit in Old PB Version
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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Im Testing the new Release of PowerServer. for PB 2017 i installed the toolbar using the PB Installation  I need to install the tookit in  PB11.5 and PB12.5 and there is no installation in the PowerServer Trial. Please any guide on how to do...
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Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
  1. PowerBuilder
Very annoying datawindow "The action just taken has forced the preview view to be rebuilt" clearing all column design
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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I have a datawindow select data from a table from SQL DB. Whenerer I try to simply select an additional column in datawindow data source (TSQL select) or even just edit the SQL where clause that change nothing on columns.  "The action just take...
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Ian Ho Ian Ho
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 2017R2 Localized Runtime
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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Hi, I installed PB2017 #1681 and then the Localized Runtime #1681. I then uninstalled PB2017 #1681 to install PB2017R2 #1756. Can I install the same Localized Runtime MR#1681 or do I have to wait for a new one for PB2017R2 #1756? (I guess it...
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Ricardo Jasso Ricardo Jasso
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Connecting to Oracle Database in Power Builder 12.6?
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Shenn Sellers replied 6 years ago
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Hi All, I am new to Power Builder .NET 12.6 . How do i make connection to Oracle database? , i have software installed on my machine which is Windows 10 64-bit.  Thanks in advance. NA  
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PB 2017 R2 executable Problem
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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Dear Community, 1. Currently I am using Power Builder 2017 R2 trial version. I successfully converted source code from PB version 12.5 to 12.6 ( PB2017R2). With the source code PB2017 R2 is fine. But when I Build the executable and generate pbds f...
Santosh Kale Santosh Kale
  1. PowerBuilder
Question about datawindow.modify('create ...
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  François Rossignol replied 6 years ago
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Hi What Im doing is using external datawindows as templates for another external datawindow (to make a calendar). From the templates I get the objects Ill create in the calendar datawindow.   Basically I dw_template.describe(Datawindow.Ob...
François Rossignol François Rossignol
  1. PowerBuilder
More Git Issues (not commiting and how to exclude pbds)
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Gimmy Susan replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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Hi, Ive sort of got Git working but Ive got a problem with one of my applications where it wont commit changes.  I can edit an object and Powerbuilder knows its modified but when I Commit it, it doesnt seem to update the repo.  Is there any advanc...
  1.  Git
Daryl Foster Daryl Foster
  1. PowerBuilder
OLE Excel: GOTO row/column
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 6 years ago
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PB 2017 R2, Build 1756 Hello PB Community, I have the OLE code to paste the contents of a datawindow to an Excel spreadsheet (thank you to all the examples available online!) I want to copy multiple datawindows into the same worksheet, but p...
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  2.  Excel
  3.  OLE
Jason Lipman Jason Lipman
  1. PowerBuilder
PBD function in Appeon WEB
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
1 reply
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Good morning Im working on the migrating of an application and Im having an issue. The problem is that in the application we use the function uf_save_dw_as_excel from the library dw2xls, in the desktop version everything is ok but when i deploy th...
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Oscar Rivera Oscar Rivera
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerServer Toolkit buttons are disabled
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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i have PBL 2017 R2 Universal edition, i installed the PowerServer toolkit on top of PBL, but its buttons on the PBL menu are not enabled. i am apparently missing some basic setup here.   please advise. sasha
  1.  PBL
Alexander Skorokhodov Alexander Skorokhodov
  1. PowerBuilder
PBDOM in AppeonWEB
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Marco Meoni replied 6 years ago
3 replies
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Good afternoon Im working on a PowerBuilder app migration to WEB using PowerServer. My problem is with the PBDOM library, in the application this library and their functions, types, are used to create xml files. In the desktop version everything i...
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Oscar Rivera Oscar Rivera
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Looking for Elevate 2017 presentation
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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Hi all, Im looking for a particular session from Elevate 2017. How to automate Adobe PDF document processing w/encryption - By Sue Brown I cant find it anywhere in the Elevate 2017 session list. If anyone can post the session link, that w...
Dennis Little Dennis Little
  1. PowerBuilder
Orientation Lock not working on IPhone 6s...
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 6 years ago
2 replies
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The of_setapprotationlock() function from the eon_mobile_awsex object in the appeon_workarounds pbl does not work on IPhone 6S. It works when you run the application on IPhone using the Appeon App to launch the application the of_setapprotationloc...
Richard Shakour Richard Shakour
  1. PowerServer Mobile (Obsolete)
dll version
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 6 years ago
4 replies
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Hello to all I have some strange crashes with the applications installed on my clients computers. Can someone certify me the following dll? atl80.dll  ==> ver: 8.0.50727.762  dim: 94.0kb atl100.dll ==> ver: 10.0.40219.1 dim: 1...
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
  1. PowerBuilder

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