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    Special characters in Webspeed

    Hi, I have some problems with special characters (é, á, à) when displaying texts from the text field of a database table. My code looks like this: FUNCTION f1 RETURNS LOGICAL (INPUT cString AS CHARACTER): {&OUT} '<center>' + cString + '</center>' SKIP. END. The cString gets the value from...
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    Shared memory access permission denied (1136)

    Hi, We have changed a .p program, from now on it connects to two databases instead of one. I myself as administrator can run the program fine, but the users get the error message: Shared memory access permission denied (1136) I read some articles that I should change permissions of db files...
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    "Ambiguous table" message expected

    Hi, We have a batch working for a long time, which uses one database (db1). Now we want to connect to another db (db2), in the calling .p program I properly deployed it. My problem is that the compiler doesn't indicate any problem, when in certain cases the table names are referred without the...
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    Record creation order

    Hi, I'm using Progress 9.1E database in Sun Solaris. I encountered a situation which I cannot explain, why it happened. There is a program code looking like this (simplified somehow): ON "F10" OF query DO : IF table1.status = "B" THEN DO: table1.status = "C". DO: CREATE t_table2...
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    SetCookie and Apache Timeout

    Hi,Can anyone let me know how webspeed session is impacted by the Timeout value of the Apache configuration (in httpd.conf)? The session of our webspeed application expires after 15 minutes (set up by SetCookie parameters) theoretically and most of the times practically as well, but some times...
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    Blank screen in webspeed

    Hi,When I use a webspeed application and the session expires, I get a blank screen instead of the login page. Is this a common feature or can I redirect the user to the login page somehow?Progress 9.1ESun SolarisThanks,Peter
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    Database backup issue

    Hi, We have a DR test with Progress applications. The same method is used every year: the entire file content of /progress directory is copied from the production server to the DR server. So far the test has been successful, but now we have the following issue. Though the Progress db can be...
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    Importing xml

    Hi, Is there any way to import an xml file to Progress? As per my best knowledge it's not possible in our system. So far I've used csv files only, but now I should import an xml, looking like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <OPPORTUNITY_LIST> <xsdLocal1:OPPORTUNITY>...
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    CHOOSE FIELD initial value

    Hi, My program uses a simple CHOOSE FIELD comman, when users can select which program to run. But I would like to place the cursor on to the second line as default. I tried many ways, but to no avail. Can you please advise, how to position the cursor from the code at easiest? Thanks, Peter
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    dcolor in character interface

    Hi, I'm using Progress 9.1E in Unix (Sun Solaris), and want to apply a simple color setting by using dcolor. Just I cannot find any reference where I could see which number is assigned to which color. In brief: if I want to use blue color, I don't even know how to set dcolor. Unfortunately...
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    Setting SEMMNU and SEMMNS

    Hi, Though I saw some threads earlier, but I cannot resolve similar issue in our case. First of all I'm not a Unix administrator, but the Unix guys ask me for advice... So we should set the SEMMNU and SEMMNS parameters properly, because after a server reboot only 1 appl can be launched out of...
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    Transaction rollback

    Hi, The following scenario is just my assumption, what could have happened in a certain case. There was a record modification in table1, and the entire record was written to table2 (new record created). Some error must have occurred, because the modification in table1 has been rolled back...
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    Unexpected lock table overflow

    Hi, Our application updates the database records based on a flat file. This file contains a long char chain, containing the code of the update (C<reate>, M<odify>, D<elete>), the table to be updated and the field values in succession. This application is running in every 10 minutes in working...
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    Exporting to Excel

    Hello, Is there any way to export data from a character based Progress application to Excel (along with formatting cells)? Originally I took the xml code of the destination Excel file, and created a program which generates the same xml code. At the end I only had to rename the xml file to xls...
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    Table name as parameter

    Hello, I'd like to develop a code which handles queries submitted by users. Users can select which table they want to see. I'm listing the tables via a screen using _file system table, and when a user selected one of them, I store it in a char variable. But I can't pass it to the include file...
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    ServerName in httpd.conf

    Hello, I'm not too experienced in webspeed configuration, and now I should resolve the following problem. Our client's website has been referred to as hostname.company.com so far. But due to a new convention they want to use instead hostname.companyweb.company.com. What I could do was...
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