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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
  1. PowerBuilder
How to turn off the use of the PB App Cache when building
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
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Hi I keep getting tripped up by PowerBuilder using prior build bits of code from the cache instead of what I'm wanting built. ie it looks like it saves build info to: C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Temp\pbappscache 22.0\cache\[application] And dec...
Rob Stevens Rob Stevens
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lack of focus when starting powerserver application
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  mike S replied 1 month ago
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We have the same application running both client/server and powerserver. When the application starts the login screen pops up, and after login the main MDI window opens.   In client/server after i click the desktop icon to start the application, f...
mike S mike S
  1. PowerServer
Excel OLE add parameters
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Dennis Little replied 1 month ago
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Hello all, We're working on a project that will open Excel, call a stored procedure, create a chart, print as a pdf then close.Using PB2022R2 Build 2828. Thanks to Tobias we have a very nice OLE example that does everything we need, except the abil...
  1.  Excel
  2.  OLE
  3.  PowerBuilder
Dennis Little Dennis Little
  1. PowerBuilder
NGINX linux
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 1 month ago
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Hi Sir,    Currently I am working on my linux box to become PowerServer/WebAPI. I am using nginx, and i had followed this https://docs.appeon.com/ps2022r3/Installing_Nginx_Linux.html  to install nginx. And now, was stuck at this https://docs.appeon....
Sim Joo Pee Sim Joo Pee
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Executable issues in PB 2022 R3 Build 3356
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 1 month ago
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We are using PB 2022 R3 Build 3356 for our App.  We are able to successfully build the project, but when trying to copy the App.EXE into any drives (local or network) we are getting an antivirus error. All the other project files including the PBDs ...
Ganaesu S Ganaesu S
  1. PowerBuilder
Server Management Console from CodeExchange - error on execution
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 1 month ago
1 reply
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Hi! I'm running PB 2022 R3 build 3356. I grabbed the Server Management Console from CodeExchange. I ran it against the default demo stuff and it worked just fine. https://community.appeon.com/index.php/codeexchange/powerserver/297-server-management...
John Raghanti John Raghanti
  1. PowerServer
network (internet) performance - latency and other metrics
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
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Anyone have any suggestions on a way to measure the latency and overall network performance between the powerserver app and the web api server?  within a powerserver application?   We have some users that appear to have poor internet performance - ...
mike S mike S
  1. PowerServer
Powerserver client accessing local database
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
1 reply
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Hi Guys We have an application that we want to deploy using PowerServer. The core database will be cloud hosted that all works fine. However, the app needs to connect to a 3rd party database that will be on the Clients local network. How do I config...
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David Peace (Powersoft) David Peace (Powersoft)
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PowerBuilder MonthCalender Control Usage
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 1 month ago
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hi all, Is powerbuilder monthcalendar control able to do date start and date end selection as similar like picture below ? thanks, Dev Ong
Ong Chin Keat Ong Chin Keat
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AppConfig.json question
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  John Raghanti replied 1 month ago
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Hi! I'm trying to follow the Elevate Session from 2022 to set up a dynamic SQL Server database for housing the PowerServer caches. I am using PowerBuilder 2022 R3, which looks different than the presentation I watched. https://www.youtube.com/live/...
John Raghanti John Raghanti
  1. PowerServer
Application crash when opening specific screen
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 month ago
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Hi All,   My application crashes when a particular screen is accessed. This issue has been reported by three users, but we haven't been able to replicate it ourselves. It only occurs when the screen is opened for the first time subsequent attempts ...
Magesh Kumar Magesh Kumar
  1. PowerBuilder
Getting the filter expression from a datawindow
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Raymond Longoria replied 1 month ago
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How do you retrieve the filter expression from a datawindow? I am sure this is a very easy solution. 
Raymond Longoria Raymond Longoria
  1. PowerBuilder
Junk Characters validations - Data Window Field
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Narayanamoorthy Thangavel replied 1 month ago
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Hi,   Can we able to set junk character validation in data window filed? Because whenever customer copy and paste the text from some other forms or PDF to PowerBuilder data window it can accept and save it but later it causes the problem to other i...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Narayanamoorthy Thangavel Narayanamoorthy Thangavel
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue with datastore updates in Web API
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Jay Hastings replied 1 month ago
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Greetings to the entire Appeon community! I am having the following issue: When creating a datastore with a simple SQL (for example, SELECT * FROM tecno.employee) and performing UPDATEs on this datastore, in client/server it works correctly, but, wi...
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerServer
Title color
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 month ago
3 replies
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Hello, how can I change the color of the application, specifically the title bar and the cascading effect to all the windows, dynamically, the requirement is that each user can customize their application.   Thank you. Luis
Luis Pesaressi Luis Pesaressi
  1. PowerBuilder
PbDotnetInvoker in .NET 8
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
2 replies
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Hi, Last time I looked to call .NET libraries from PB. I checked that pbdotnetinvoker.dll library is only supported and compiled in .net 6. We have many libraries and frameworks in .NET 8. Is possible to call libraries compiled in .NET 8? Maybe I ca...
Paweł Kasperek Paweł Kasperek
  1. PowerBuilder
postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 1 month ago
1 reply
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Hello, Has anyone heard about this? postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface (supabase.com) Charts looks interesting for me.  If that could be used with the webbrowser inside powerbuilder ... Well, your comments pl. Happiness Alway...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  WebBrowser
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue saving RTE document in html with ansi encoding
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
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Hello, I am tring to save a RTE document in html and ansi character set No matter what encoding parameter I use, it returns utf8 I am using Powerbuilder 2022R3 Is there any issues with the encoding parameter? Example: string ls_file1, ls_file2,...
Daniel Seguin Daniel Seguin
  1. PowerBuilder
Datastore dynamic with SyntaxFromSql, Failed to retrieve the response status
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  mike S replied 1 month ago
7 replies
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  Hi everyone, I need help, I have a powerbuilder 2022 and it is mounted on a server with windows server 2019, when I am running the application on Windows 11, I have an error when creating a dynamic datastore, it sends me the error: "Failed to ret...
Jose Alberto Ochoa Medina Jose Alberto Ochoa Medina
  1. PowerBuilder
How to send contents of a CSV file as body of a REST API
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 1 month ago
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We are using PB 2019 R2 and there is requirement to call a REST API where in we need to send the contents of a CSV formatted file as its payload/body. How can we achieve this via code?
VINOD NAIR VINOD NAIR
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