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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
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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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MySQL Integration with PowerBuilder ?
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Kevin Ridley replied 10 months ago
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Hi Experts, My client is currently using a web application with MySQL as the database. We are planning to migrate the web application to PowerBuilder. Is it possible to continue using the same MySQL database with PowerBuilder? If so, could you pleas...
Deva Shanmuga Deva Shanmuga
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JWT - how PS uses it
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  mike S replied 10 months ago
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I'm looking at building my own JWT auth service so that i can not only validate with my database, but also send back information in addition to the token (the URL of the PS web api , the database to use, etc.) the PS web api needs to validate the to...
mike S mike S
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Dropdowndatawindow based on Stored Procedure retrieve issue
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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  PB version 2017 r3 build 1880   I'm doing maintenance on a window and hitting an item that has me a puzzled. I haven't worked with a stored procedure based datawindow in almost 10 years, so apology if this is a stupid question.   I have a mai...
John Brown John Brown
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How to suppress certain characters (dw field)?
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Gzim Ramizi replied 10 months ago
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Hi all, is there a way how one could suppress a certain character for datawindow fields? I have a field where I should allow just numbers (0-9) and letters (a-z, A-Z); if the user types something else, like spacebar or any other signs, the entry sh...
Gzim Ramizi Gzim Ramizi
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Powerbuilder 2022 & Jaws Problems
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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Some of our internal clients are using Jaws and it wasn't working to well with a datawindow. Almost all the columns tab order was set to 0.  We set the tab orders to non-zero values and jaws didn't do a very good job. Sometimes it ignores the data i...
jorge gonzalez jorge gonzalez
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custom graph-colors in theme
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  kitty he @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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Hi there PB Developers Is it possible to change the palette of a specific graph in a datawindow using a definition in theme.json? There is an entry "graph-colors" { "palette[] } , but this is used for the whole application.  For printing a report ...
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Stephan Schröpel Stephan Schröpel
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Excel not working after a Windows update
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Alon Evan replied 10 months ago
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Hi, I have an issue when opening an Excel file using OLE after a Windows update to 22H2 (build OS 19045.3448) The issue occurs only when the program is called from the Windows Task Scheduler ( user session not open ) Connection to Excel seems to w...
Alon Evan Alon Evan
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PowerServer: Select error: Datawindow not found
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  mike S replied 10 months ago
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PowerBuilder IDE and Runtime version 2022 R2 Build 2819 I'm deploying to an Azure Storage Account, Azure Static Web Site, and Azure App Service for a simple application. I deployed successfully a week or so ago and everything was working well. I alt...
Ray Kellum Ray Kellum
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After Upgrade to PowerBuilder Build 2828 PowerServer stopped working
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Luiz Marques replied 10 months ago
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Good Morning,                     Last week I have done a presentation for a client regarding a powerbuiler application to powerserver 2022. It was working fine, but once I have upgraded to the PB build 2828 I'm getting the error below. I have follo...
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Luiz Marques Luiz Marques
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Dashboard in PowerBuilder
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
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Hello, PowerBuilder Ui Framework : Part One : DashBoard - YouTube PowerBuilder UI FrameWork - YouTube While searching google I found this video to create a dashboard in PowerBuilder.  Someone started creating these 3 or 4 years before.  Seems he l...
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Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
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PB 2022r2 application crash when run on non development machine
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Tracy Huang @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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Hi    I upgraded an app from PB2021 to PB2022 R@ latest build 2819 The application runs fine on development machines with visual studio and powerbuilder installed when i run the application from a non development machine with the latest version of...
Malek Taha Malek Taha
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Can a GIT Fetch be triggered directly from the PB UI?
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Jeff Kandt replied 10 months ago
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Environment. Latest and greatest version of PowerBuilder 2022 R2 GIT Client Installed TortoiseGit Installed.I'm uncertain if this is a how-to or an actual issue. We have been setting up some new repositories in Bonobo. I'm working with one of the ...
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Jeff Gibson Jeff Gibson
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is there any way I can use PowerBuilder off grid that it is not trying to connect to the internet?
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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is there any way I can use PowerBuilder 2022 off the grid that it is not trying to connect to the internet? is there a code I can use.
Reynard Harrison Reynard Harrison
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Need a Faster way to Determine if a Directory Exists
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 10 months ago
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PB 2022 1900 I have an application that creates files on a file server. Recently we had a customer where the application completely hung up and the issue ended up being that the File Server had issues so when I would fire the DirectoryExists functio...
Christopher Craft Christopher Craft
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ampersand in dw-columns
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  André Monz replied 10 months ago
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Hi all, in our app we display the name of a customer in the title of the customer-window.The code ist simple: string ls_name1, ls_name2 ls_name1=dw_detail.getitemstring(dw_detail.GetRow(),"vname") if isnull(ls_name1) then ls_name1="" ls_name2=...
André Monz André Monz
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How to clear the download history in browser control
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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I have an application in Powerbuilder 2022 R2 and I need to clear the download history in the browser control before downloading a file. I looked through the documentation and I did not find a way to do this. Any help would be appreciated.
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Raymond Longoria Raymond Longoria
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Can Powerserver project run on Linux Machine?
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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We have migrated our application to Powerserver 2022 which have many .Net assemblies. We have deployed our Powerserver App and API to EKS/Docker/Nginx on Linux. We did not tried or tested it yet, but curious to explore the ability to run this from L...
Anoop Chaurasia Anoop Chaurasia
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Converting a STRING to EBCDIC
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 10 months ago
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Still working on communicating with CICS (Mainframe) using RESTClient and Communications is great :) BUT the CICS Mainframe Module is Expecting the SRING to be in EBCDIC... I couldn't find a FUNCTION in the CoderObject to do so... Is there anyone wit...
Sufyan Maghur Sufyan Maghur
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Switching Between Old menu and Ribbon Bar
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
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Planning to implement a new Ribbon bar in the application,  1. What is the optimised way to implement a ribbon bar? Is it using the XML or Power script? 2. Is it possible to switch between the old menu and the new ribbon bar by clicking on a button...
Apoorva JUKANTI Apoorva JUKANTI
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Text cut off in print preview
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Ronnie Po replied 10 months ago
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Hello, PB 2019 R3 2728. A string column 2784x60, Autosize Height turned on, placed in Detail with Autosize Height turned on, too: The font is Arial 8pt. In preview, the text takes 4 lines: In Print Preview, it looks different: If I print it...
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