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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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  2. How-to
  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
How can I get an argument when my program run on PowerServer 2020?
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Kyungil Choi replied 10 months ago
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Hello, there. I wonder if I can get an arguments when I first run my program on PowerServer 2020. For example, if I make a client program which runs on my desktop, I run it with "myprogram.exe test_arg" and then I get test_arg as a argument and I c...
  1.  PowerServer
  2.  PowerServer Web
Kyungil Choi Kyungil Choi
  1. PowerServer
JWT Authentication
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Tracy Huang @Appeon replied 10 months ago
2 replies
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Hi Team,    I need to take jwt response from other system API, from which i need to get user details and roles, I am succeeded to decode the jwt token info in PowerBuilder, however i am not able to get the values from  the decoded string , can any ...
Vijay Kumar Vijay Kumar
  1. PowerServer
Issue with .NET DLL Importer
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  David Samudio Alfonso replied 10 months ago
2 replies
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Hello everyone!! I have this problem, I am using the ".NET Dll Importer" to use the classes of a dll, but in this case I have a class with the same name and 4 different types of arguments, and I only display one of them in the object, I have Also th...
David Samudio Alfonso David Samudio Alfonso
  1. PowerBuilder
enforce min and max in an ancestor resize event
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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I have an ancestor window with a general move and resize everything event in it that happily moves all controls as you resize the window that inherits it. The inheritor runs super::resize(...) to actually run the move/grow. When I try an implement ...
  1.  Event
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  Resize
kevin kevin rowe kevin kevin rowe
  1. PowerBuilder
DataWindow syntax has incorrect release number - PowerServer
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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Got an interesting issue I'm running into within the PowerServer environment. PB 2022 R2.The application in question does the following.PB way of handling things. A PBL is created locally on the end-users' machine at runtime.This allows reports to be...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  Import
  3.  Library
  4.  PBL
  5.  PowerServer
Jeff Gibson Jeff Gibson
  1. PowerServer
Hyperlink in Datawindow cell
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 10 months ago
1 reply
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Hi, I  have to insert Hyperlink inside in cell (column) of DataWindow. Is possible to set a text as hyperlink and next call a website (via OpenUrl function) on clicking this link? Regards, Pawel
Paweł Kasperek Paweł Kasperek
  1. PowerBuilder
How to Filter DataWindow Child by Row's Condition?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
  Hi...   How can filter the DataWindow Child options by each row's value?   For example the table (Grid DataWindow) below, how can filter and the SubCategory options based on selected Category? ID Category SubCategory 1   ...
V F V F
  1. PowerBuilder
Handling DB connection failures
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 10 months ago
1 reply
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Hi Darren, In my application I have the same problem that you mentioned in your post, could you help me by sharing the object you use to validate the connection to the database and how to implement it in my system. thank you.
Francisco Vilca Sanchez Francisco Vilca Sanchez
  1. PowerBuilder
Line break as data value in a DropDownListBox DW column
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 10 months ago
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Is there a way to have the user pick an option from the dropdown and have a linebreak inserted into the column? I've tried everything I could think of but couldn't make it work. I guess I could use a placeholder string and replace it with a proper li...
Benjamin Gaesslein Benjamin Gaesslein
  1. PowerBuilder
How to export all of the built-in icons from PowerBuilder 2021
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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Hello, For PowerBuilder 2021, is there any way of exporting all of the built-in images so that my manager can review and pick the ones they need without having to use the PowerBuilder IDE? Thanks in advance. Greg
Gregory Rusak Gregory Rusak
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue with PowerBuilder 2022 R2 'Extract' functionality
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Sajith Prasannan replied 10 months ago
2 replies
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Dear Developers, Please provide guidance on the issue I'm encountering in my project. I have a .pdf file that has been compressed with zip.exe and stored in a table as a blob. I need to extract this file in PowerBuilder 2022 R2 using the 'Extract' ...
  1.  32-bit
  2.  BLOB
  3.  Compression
  4.  PDF
  5.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Sajith Prasannan Sajith Prasannan
  1. PowerBuilder
How to use infomaker reports with powerbuilder application?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Hasan Haider replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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I have built an application on powerbuilder. I want to integrate infomaker with powerbuilder so that my clients can create their own reports from the database. Could someone guide me regarding the steps for this?
  1.  ERP
  2.  InfoMaker
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  PowerBuilder Runtime
Hasan Haider Hasan Haider
  1. InfoMaker
Optimize Terminated
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
2 replies
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Windows 11 Build 22621.2428 PB 2022 R2 Build 2819   Whenever I try to optimize my Pibbles, I get the following error message.   I can build the application but the icon isn't applied and all the properties are blank.   Any ideas?  Thanks.
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Shenn Sellers Shenn Sellers
  1. PowerBuilder
Failed to load the library "PBORC.dll" for silence install on windows server 2019 container
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 12 months ago
  2.  Tioma Kaushin replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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We are going to implement the CI/CD via AWS's Codebuild which uses 'Windows server 2019' as image. I did silent install for both Powerbuilder Runtime/Powerbuider Compiler on the windows server container (I tried both Powerbuilder 2021 v1506 and v1509...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  PowerBuilder Compiler
Tommy Liu Tommy Liu
  1. PowerBuilder
Retrieve function throws error 'Invalid Character value for cast specification'
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 10 months ago
1 reply
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Hello everyone, I have a problem when I am debugging my code, it turns out that the code leads me to display an error message that I am getting after the expected error message. When I press my Search button I am getting the following error: "Invalid...
  1.  Retrieve
Albert van Bochove Albert van Bochove
  1. PowerBuilder
How to achieve windows authentication for functional ID for SQL Server in Standalone PB2019 Application?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
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Hi, We have a standalone PB2019 application which is hosted in Citrx and uses the SQL Authentication. But now we want to use the windows authentication using a functional ID (BOX id) but this can't be achieved using SQL Native Client. Could any on...
  1.  Authentication
  2.  SQL Server
VENKATESH GUPTHA JONNAGADLA VENKATESH GUPTHA JONNAGADLA
  1. PowerBuilder
Generate QR Code in datawindow
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  O E replied 10 months ago
2 replies
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Hello, I want to generate a QR code in a datawindow. I have design a freeform dataobject in form of a report so i want to add QR code at the footer of my report. How can i achieve this?
mathews rutto mathews rutto
  1. PowerBuilder
Silent Uninstall of InfoMaker 2019
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Mora Wang @Appeon replied 10 months ago
5 replies
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Can someone provide me a way to silently uninstall InfoMaker 2019? I have tried "C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{86FD227D-8170-41FF-BEFA-F1CC7C41B7BB}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly -s but it opens up a pr...
  1.  InfoMaker
  2.  Uninstall
Paul Weir Paul Weir
  1. InfoMaker
How to open powerbuilder IDE 2019R2 and powerbuilder IDE 2022R2 at the same time
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Pierre DETE replied 10 months ago
4 replies
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Hello community, We need to open Powerbuilder IDE 2019R2 and Powerbuilder IDE 2022R2 at the same time for code maintenance between all our versions. The solution of opening 2 versions of one version and closing one to open the other version, seems n...
Pierre DETE Pierre DETE
  1. PowerBuilder
One Cloud app opening another Cloud app?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 10 months ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hello Appeon Community,        I have a question regarding an older PB client sever application that I am trying to convert to PowerServer 2022 could app.  The existing Client Server app is actually 5 different EXEs that all access the same database...
David Motty David Motty
  1. PowerServer

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