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    Schema Lock Error

    Hi Guys, Can anyone explain what this error in the attached image actually means? The user gets this error when creating some records but not every time?!?! I can log on and create them myself without error too... Any information would be greatly received! TIA
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    Question Import\export Headache

    We have a routine that allows for table records to be exported to a .d file and then Imported into tables in a different DB, all very simple I hear you say! Well it's never that straightforward is it... We have a table called order and a table called orderh when orders reach a certain status...
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    Web Services

    Hi All, Please forgive me if I say something that makes no sense as this is my first real taste of using web services... We have an existing link to a third party system whereby we connect to a WSDL document and run a routine to send off an xml string of data. This has worked happily for a...
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    Selecting Printer Trays

    Hi All, We have a report that outputs data to a PDF and happily saves it away. Now we have a new printer that has multiple trays and I'm looking to control which trays are called upon for different color copies etc. Does anyone have any experience of this? We currently use os-command or...
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    shellexecute - printto

    Hi All, Has anyone successfully used the printto mode in shellexecute. I can easily print to the default printer with the print mode but the minute I try and use printto along with the printer name or IP address nothing happens. I've messaged out the return value and I get a code of 42 which I...
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    Question Webspeed to XLSX

    Hi All, We have a (very old) website that has a report that can be dumped to excel.. ok were doing well so far! The task is to change other reports to output to excel too, I have managed to get this going but I'm having an issue with content-output, currently we use x-msexcel. However this...
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    Dynamic Table Dump

    Progress version 10.1C Hi All, I'm trying to dump a number of tables(100+) to a .d file. I know I can do this as follows and cant complain it works fine.. define variable chrDumpFile as character no-undo. define stream dumpStream. assign chrDumpFile =...
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    Question Webspeed Newbie!

    Hi Guys, I'm a total newbie to webspeed and all things web development so please go easy :).... Having spent many years developing openedge event driven stuff I think I maybe struggling with a different approach!! I've inherited the maintenance of a simplish website that we have and...
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    Software compilation speed

    Hi All, Apologies in advance for my patchy explanation of an issue I'm currently experiencing and possibly posting in the wrong forum but here goes.... OK so rightly or wrongly(no hope of a change!!) we have a 'development environment' setup on our local machines where our system accesses...
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    Keywords - autocase and colour

    Forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong forum... I couldn't see another suitable one. The problem I have is that when using progress keywords in a string, in a message for example, the editor is recognizing the keyword highlighting it in blue and changing the case as applicable. i.e...
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    Drag and Drop Files

    Hi All, I recently discovered the drop-target\drop-file-notify\get-dropped-file methods and attributes(old news I know but hey!!). So I've managed to create a simple form with a button to drop files onto and open them up, great! But my first issue comes when I try and drop an email directly...
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    Find x of Y vs Find x where xyz

    Hi Guys, Can some one tell me why there seems to be such a big speed difference between the following two code snippets. find loadlsth of loadlstd no-lock no-error. and find loadlsth where loadlsth.compno = loadlstd.compno and loadlsth.plantno =...
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    Matches operator and decimal fields

    Hi All, I hope some can help me with this before i pull all my hair out!! long story as short as possible... I have a dynamic tt that I populate using a given table I then display the data in a browse and allow the user to click a series of column headings to create a string of fields to search...
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    Dynamic queries, temp-tables, browse widgets and their formats...

    Forgive me as I'm relatively new to dynamic queries and the like..... I have created a program to display all data from a table whose name I feed the program as an input parameter. Obviously all my tables contain various numbers of fields of various data types so I create a dynamic tt like the...
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    Disabling Excel Features

    Hi All, Briefly the problem is as follows, I have a report that exports to excel. We output the data to a CSV file and then import this file into excel. All works well but in some cases we have to uniquely name the CSV file to allow the same report to be ran at the same time on the server. This...
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    Creating a table in an email

    Hi All, I'm using open edge 10.2b. I have an existing routine to generate an email via outlook which I can add attachments, a subject and some text in the body. Super!!! But what I want to do is add a table of data into the body section(in the same way you can if you were manually creating an...
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    Programmatically saving excel 2010 files....

    Morning All, This is my first post so please go gently with me :blush1:. We’re using open edge version 10.2b and I have a machine running vista. The problem I have is as follows: - I’m running a report via a background process that we developed in house. This report generates a load of data...
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    Calculating Ratios

    Hi can someone help with a query I have please... I'm want to calculate a ratio but not sure if there is a function or method to do it?? e.g. I have a set up time of 30 minutes and run time of 10 minutes. This would be 30:10... that's no problem. But ideally I want it to read 3:1. Finally i...
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