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SAP PowerBuilder — programming language and IDE from SAP (formerly Sybase). Very popular in the early 90s before being eclipsed by Visual Studio and failing to provide an adequate solution for web applications. Outside of StackOverflow, the best resource for PowerBuilder help is the Appeon PowerBuilder Community. Also possibly of interest: The International Sybase User Group, PowerBuilder Journal

PowerBuilder — programming language and IDE from SAP (formerly Sybase and prior to that PowerSoft). Very popular in the early 90s before being eclipsed by Visual Studio and failing to provide an adequate solution for web applications.

As of July 2016, further development of PowerBuilder has been assumed by Appeon Corporation

Outside of Stack Overflow, the best resource for PowerBuilder help is the Appeon Community Forum.

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How to show all items with retrieve having parameters in PowerBuilder?

If dw.retrieve does not have parameters,I can use dw.retrieve() to get all items in datawindow. But if retrieve has parameters, how can I get all iterms using dw.retrieve()?
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when i delete a data that has been deleted from the Data Window but has not been committed to the database

when i delete a data that has been deleted from the Data Window but has not been committed to the database. a null row is getting created in database... can anyone help me to solve this problem
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How to set Microsoft Excel chart OLE object chart type

How to set chart type of Microsoft Excel chart OLE object in PowerBuilder? I want to set chart type of Excel chart dynamically.
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Opening Powerbuilder datawindow design mode at runtime

I need to use datawindow design mode in my application but i think there is no such function to open design mode at runtime. In my application there is reporting module that is not perfect in the sense that there is always need to design a new…
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PowerBuilder script

I'm trying to write a script which allows the tool to run only 5 times. If the user tries to run the tool a 6th time, the tool should throw an error as Expired. Can anyone please help me in this?
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how to locate a object in the system tree in powerbuilder?

In powerbuilder, I open a window or a datawindow from the Library. How can I locate the window or the datawindow in the system tree? The target has many pbls and objects. To find one is difficult. Thanks for your help.
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How to generate the Symbols file of a PowerBuilder program for dump analysis?

How to generate the Symbols file of a PowerBuilder program for dump analysis?
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assign compute field with text value for every row

I have a datawindow control named dw_1. Inside this control is a datawindow named rpt_1 and there's a computed field on rpt_1 called co_insp1. I need to assign co_insp1 a value I calculate through an external function and the value will be different…
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how to get which button is click on datawindow

can any one please help me how to know which button is click on data-window& what is the button clicked row number. I have created a data window which fetch the emp data from the table. I have added two button on data-window one is update & second…
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How to insert update & delete the data from the database in powerbuilder

Can any one please help me how to Insert the data into database from window form. How to fetch the data to show on window form & same to update the data from database. I am looking for the code that contain sql query with in the code not from the…
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How can i add a filter in Data window

I am very new in power builder. I am trying to add the filter in data window. I have created a data window dw_trans which return the trans number & amount. I want to add the filter on the basis of trans number. user select the trans number only that…
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Modify function of DataWindow does not work properly in PB10.5

So I have a string with a large sql query named sql_select. And I have the following code in PowerBuilder 10.5: dw_1.Modify( "DataWindow.Table.Select=' "+ sql_select + "'" ) messagebox("Something", dw_1.getsqlselect()) I see that I do not get the…
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Open a Window by clicking a record in another DataWindow

I have a DataWindow which gets the records using select. What I want to do is to be able to click on any record and open a new Window/DataWindow to display more information about that selected/clicked record. I am fairly new to PB8 and struggling…
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Get Windows Task Managers Application Tab

How can I scan through the "Windows Task Manager" Applications tab using Powerbuilder? I want to be able to read through all the programs currently running under the Applications tab and get the name of each program and it's process ID.
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how to use group by case in powerbuilder 10.5

date_entry time_start time_finished idle_code qty_good 8/8/2013 13:00 13:30 6 10 8/8/2013 13:30 15:20 0 20 8/8/2013 15:20 15:30 6 5 8/8/2013 …
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