HI Eric.

This functionaltiy was originally implemented to do automatic mailing directly to many users that will all get an individual mail.

Personally I'm a big "hater" of CCs as it tends to fill up my mailbox with mails that is not rele...

LE9 beta 7292 still has the same issue with previous version dates on dbm import

Hi, Ive got the email working to send a pdf to a nominated email address from OML script attached to a button on a form using Documentrun. Is there any way of sending to a CC email address at the same time ? 

It is Vikings Jól now… so 48 months since the final release of LE9 will be counted from …what date. We are finishing 7292 testing and it is very important to us when absolutely  new by concept DE will be ready to get it from he...

Hi all! May be it is my turn  to use my more than 30 years int DFD experience to help dear Sir Richard as it was with NY subway team ? My teacher always said use your hands and do not think while hands are solving an DFD challenge ;) to be s...

Hi again Richard.

Forget everything about Novell etc. The way it works in L4D is quite straight forward but obviously it opens up a can of worms and possibility to get it wrong.

L4D use the printer settings in Windows, so L4D will port t...

Hi there, yes DataEase currently runs via an XP PC with the Novell Client installed, but we want to move away from this!

And just to say, we weren't the ones that originally developed this DataEase Order Processing, it was another company m...

Hi Richard. 

I feel that you here are trying to fix something really easy in a very hard way.

I guess your customer has been running this in XP or somethng which is in reality MS-DOS 7 or something with ehanced support for LPT etc.<...

Hi there, we're still battling trying to get the Epson LX-300 layout to work via LegEasy.  ??

Can we launch DataEase via a batch file in LegEasy?

So we have already shared the LX-300 via another PC, and want to try redirecting LP...

The prolem here is most likely that the wrong pritner is used in Workstation COnfiguration for Local 1.

This is the "Nightmare" we explained some time back. 

Applicaiton printers is just a template and the moment someone with a new...

Hi We are now having an issue where the lines and spacings are not quite right. Text seems to be all shifted to the right. Report settings have all stayed the same. I think it maybe that even though the the print processor is set to raw on windows I t...

Hi We are now having an issue where the lines and spacings are not quite right. Text seems to be all shifted to the right. Report settings have all stayed the same. I think it maybe that even though the the print processor is set to raw on windows I t...

Cool! ... wechave to take that into account..Thank You very much!

Great! thx a lot!

Download LE9.7292 - Beta

This vesion is close to the final release of LE9. There is a lot of improvements but its only put on here now to help...

This just save the link to the image hosted on the web as if you copy from the Web it will copy the link to embed.

You need a proper BMP i.e. clipboard image to be pasted into the HTMLEdit field for it to be automatically convereted to BASE64....

yup. saving pictures ? yup! browsing too ;) GLORY TO DataEase (tm) TEAM!

now in trial mode with lost license key ;) ready to test a new LE9 build nevertheless... but sincere thx and Glory to DataEase team!

Your problem is that you don't have the right setup for you LE9 WebObject.

The WebObject in LE9 is based on Internet Explorer and it is self configuring. Default configuration is IE7 so you need to set a registry setting to have it emulate IE11...

got electricity again ... no success with pasting image from clipboard to image feild in SavingImage application on my LE9 version 6835 still

I hope the official download of new LE9 version 7021 or higher will be ASAP to solve the situation

How to do that detailed please. Clipboard has image inside but it is impossible to paste from clipboard into HTMLEdit field. Thank You

... got electricity for a while here after one more blackout here this is the reason for late communication ;) general Zaluzhzhny our ambassador in London will explain the strange reasons for that soon ..may be corruption in this state rules all

Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 13/11/25 at 02:10:20 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How to save an Image in your database and display it again.

Re:Re:Re:Re:How to save an Image in your database and display it again.

Re:Re:Re:How to save an Image in your database and display it again.

Re:Re:How to save an Image in your database and display it again.

Re:How to save an Image in your database and display it again.

How to save an Image in your database and display it again.

Download Sample

Written by DataEase 12/11/25 at 14:02:14 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:image file

yes, You are right ..this is wrong ... tell me please how to make it correct ? Thx a lot and sorry for these pics nevertheless

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 13:44:19 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:image file

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 13:42:09 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:image file

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 13:39:13 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:image file

"just use a HTMLEdit field to paste/insert the field into the memo and a normal webfield to display it."

Please show the steps and settings to get it working on my side. Thank You sincerely

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 12:15:07 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 83 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:image file

the fields mentioned definitions and etc. will be enough .. thank You

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 12:13:03 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:image file

What Item would that be?

The download link would be the same so the problem would be the same.

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Written by DataEase 12/11/25 at 11:58:14 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:image file

template, item, ... sample database via email or download it from here ?

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 11:52:17 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 83 days old.

Re:Re:Re:image file

thx a lot..agree fully but is it possible to get Your item here or via email ? thank You sincerely in advance

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 11:20:41 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:image file

Just tested download and it works fine. Must be something blocking it your end.

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Written by DataEase 12/11/25 at 11:13:35 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:image file

"To get it to work, you can just use a HTMLEdit field to paste/insert the field into the memo and a normal webfield to display it.

They will print etc. like normal image fields." 

it looks like jubilee ImageEase will able  to exe...

Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/25 at 10:58:29 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:image file

I see ... may be an test template with this Norbert Wiener in Kyiv summer 1960 pic? But thx a lot for reply nevertheless

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 11/11/25 at 15:35:24 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 83 days old.

Re:Re:image file

To get it to work, you can just use a HTMLEdit field to paste/insert the field into the memo and a normal webfield to display it.

They will print etc. like normal image fields.

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Written by DataEase 11/11/25 at 12:46:04 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 83 days old.

Re:image file

The image in your post is stored in a DataEase Memo. 

However its stored as Base64 which the Web Element automatically convert it to when you paste it into it.

However Base64 is a very "inefficient" format so the size in the memo is...

Written by DataEase 11/11/25 at 12:34:53 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 83 days old.

image file

Hi all! Is it possible to store image file in an DataEase version and how to do that ... for sure I do know that file is a set of 1 and 0 and nothing more. Thank You! Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 11/11/25 at 06:59:19 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 83 days old.

image file

Hi all! Is it possible to store image file in an DataEase version and how to do that ... for sure I do know that file is a set of 1 and 0 and nothing more. Thank You! Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 11/11/25 at 06:59:19 - 15 people have commented. The newsest comment is 82 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Yes.

In DFD you can use abstraction or you can put in a full printer name or yuou can leave the printer name and will then need to select priinter when you print (this is in the "DOS" bit).

Written by DataEase 10/11/25 at 22:23:36 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Thanks for the reply. We have it working now, however for one particular report it seems to always bring up the windows print dialogue box. Doesn't seem to matter what printer or port we use, that particular report always opens the print dialogue box....

Written by Richard Sargeant 10/11/25 at 17:04:23 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Sorry for the late reply.
Just had some testing done.

we can send output to LPT5 from L4D if we copy the file but not if we print directly, this lead us to believe - also based on old documentation - that the limittation is in the DFD code a...

Written by DataEase 05/11/25 at 12:43:36 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Hi there, we have now got the 1 user base license installed and we are setting up printer mappings, is there a way to add LPT5:? As our current setup uses LPT5: for a particular Dataease report.

Thanks, Richard

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Written by Richard Sargeant 04/11/25 at 13:50:29 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

DataEase Import Format Type: DataEase 5.x - 8.x - loss of date field values

When using the Import Data utility with Import Format Type: "DataEase 5.x - 8.x" the date field values are lost.
if the original data is exported as Variable length text delimited format the date values import works.

Anyone know how to g...

Written by Sam 31/10/25 at 13:26:20 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 1 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Understood, unfortunately I don't think our client will pay for licences until we've demonstrated to them the proper 'live' solution. Also their users are use to just clicking on an RDP icon and DataEase simply launches, with additional menu...

Written by Richard Sargeant 22/10/25 at 17:54:56 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:DataEase 8.5 menus corrupt

Good day
I restored the app from a backup,

Re: "See if there is a problem with status table for menus by running it."

Are you referring to 'Application \ Status' ?

Written by Sam 20/10/25 at 02:33:21 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 106 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Written by DataEase 17/10/25 at 16:52:43 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

It's only small, up to 5 users...

So how would you recommend we install then and can we have a simple shortcut to start DE on each the user's Desktop?

Cheers,

Richard.

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Written by Richard Sargeant 17/10/25 at 14:27:50 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Hi richard.

You are right in thinking that it is a little "byraucratic" but the interface was created originally for large users in mind and has a server install option.

But as it turned out, the majority of DFD users - of which there is...

Written by DataEase 17/10/25 at 13:07:34 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Hi there, we are currently evaluating a 30 day version on LegEasy 4DOS and have some questions:

1) Does the product have to be installed on all PCs needing to run DataEase or can it be installed on a 'server PC' and other PCs connect to get thei...

Written by Richard Sargeant 17/10/25 at 11:51:18 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Corrupted DE 4.53 FORM

thx 2 all for an vDOS experience we never used it in the case before but DosBox works wit DE 4.53 on Samsung Gear 1 smartwatch even. In general we have old PC with Win95 and laptops with WinXP. Will check 2014 Google Glass with DE 4.53 soon. ...

Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/10/25 at 08:40:11 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Corrupted DE 4.53 FORM

If you have an old backup. Just create a new application, restore the backup into that application and then take a copy of your current application and simply find the files that are corrupted and copy over with the files from the backup that is corre...

Written by DataEase 09/10/25 at 09:43:28 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Corrupted DE 4.53 FORM

Written by DataEase 09/10/25 at 09:33:54 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:VDos

I have been running DFD 4.53 inside vDOS quite well for several years, currently in Windows 10 64-bit and soon to be Windows 11. Any other users left?

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Written by edwhow 08/10/25 at 18:26:57 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 118 days old.

Re:Re:Corrupted DE 4.53 FORM

Thank you for your reply.

I think the old backup of the old copy of the database should have the same structure and works properly.

So my idea would be to export the form data and import it into a fresh form design which I can add to the c...

Written by edwhow 08/10/25 at 18:17:43 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Re:DataEase 8.5 menus corrupt

The problem is most likely with the Status Table for Menu's. Menus use that as a "virtual" table so one can have virtual fields in Menus.

Status tables are in 7 and 8 automatically mantained on startup and this sometimes go haywire. 
Written by DataEase 29/09/25 at 13:34:23 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 106 days old.

DataEase 8.5 menus corrupt

Anyone know what would all of a sudden cause this issue with Menu docs.

Designer view or User view open: 

          Error 1 Restoring Document definition

         ...

Written by Sam 25/09/25 at 19:10:37 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 106 days old.

Re:Dataease 4.5.3 Import problems ANSI, UTF-8 etc

If characters sets was a nightmare in the 80s, they are no less of a nightmare in the 2020s when you try to use a 8 bit one.

DataEase for DOS can in principle use any 8 bit codepage and read/write exactly what you "serve" it and there is no tra...

Written by DataEase 12/09/25 at 12:12:06 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 144 days old.

Re:Corrupted DE 4.53 FORM

Status code means the file is unavailable. Most likely corrupt or missing altogether.

Your image is a little to small to give any useful information on how to help you.

If its the DBA files that is missing/corrupt and these forms hasn't...

Written by DataEase 12/09/25 at 11:33:48 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Re:Dataease 4.5.3 Import problems ANSI, UTF-8 etc

Are you sure those characters are incorrect, it isn't just the codepage in NTVDM defaulting to 437 instead of for instance 1252 (German)? So the characters are just displayed incorrectly.

...

Written by Jos Schaars 11/09/25 at 20:32:52 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 144 days old.

Dataease 4.5.3 Import problems ANSI, UTF-8 etc

So - i have worked beginning with the first versions of Dease and i still working with 4.5.3 using WIN7 - it runs very fast and stabil. Now I tried to import a csv file which shows in debug mode all characters correkt - all german char like ÖÄ etc ver...

Written by Walter Schuster 06/09/25 at 18:57:50 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 144 days old.

Corrupted DE 4.53 FORM

On opening my Dataease 4.53 for DOS database as usual I got the following in FORM status

**ERROR** FORM FILE CANNOT BE OPENED, STATUS CODE 1

I cannot open the form or another form that has a relationship with it.

1. Is there any way...

Written by edwhow 05/09/25 at 16:18:20 - 5 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Re:LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Hi Richard

Available for purchase under the Shop Tab....so available and fully supported :-)

kind regards

Josef

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Written by Josef Vella 19/08/25 at 17:52:47 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

LegEasy 4DOS - still available and supported?

Hi guys,

We have a customer who we've been dealing with for about 35 years and they still use DataEase! :-)

They had a DataEase database written for them way back and they still want to use it going forward. Over the years we've managed to...

Written by Richard Sargeant 19/08/25 at 17:11:24 - 18 people have commented. The newsest comment is 45 days old.

Re:DataEase for DOS - list of DQLs appears to be corrupt

You can try to do a native (dataease) backup/restore. That will reorganize the system files.

There is ways this can be fixed manually by editing the report repository but that is a specialist task....

If not this is a revert to earlier b...

Written by DataEase 15/08/25 at 14:06:28 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 172 days old.

MSSQL tables link for loop sub-procedure anomaly

With native DE tables the following example procedure scenario always works:

--Table 1 contains 100 records

--Table 2 contains > 1 records related to Table 1 on Field: ItemID

For Table1 ;

   temp tC := temp tC...

Written by Sam 11/08/25 at 07:31:33

DataEase for DOS - list of DQLs appears to be corrupt; unable to save a new DQL

We use DFD 5.  For the last few days, the list of .dql procedures appears to be corrupt.   If you create a new .dql it lets you save it but when you look at the bottom of the list, the new .dql has strange characters in the name. ...

Written by Jan Taylor 08/08/25 at 17:59:46 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 172 days old.

Re:any body knows how to Import Application Definition

When you say Application Definition, what are you thinking of.

Its not a DataEase term.

Is it an entire application of a part of it like RDRR which is the repository or Application Objects which has all the documents etc?

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Written by DataEase 02/08/25 at 16:03:27 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 185 days old.

Re:Support for DataEase Plus 3.5

We assume the version you are talking about is NetPlus 3.5?

This product was never a DataEase product but was originally developed as DataEase Professional but was sold to Symantec before it was released. It was released under different names l...

Written by DataEase 02/08/25 at 15:59:01 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 185 days old.

Support for DataEase Plus 3.5

Hi we have a client who has a database built in DataEase Plus 3.5. Is there any support for this or options for migration

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Written by Ben Tilley 29/07/25 at 12:28:06 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 185 days old.

any body knows how to Import Application Definition

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Written by Antonio J. Forero 22/07/25 at 23:22:14 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 185 days old.

Installing DEPLAYER on Server share and running it from there.

No. You don't have to de-install anything ;-)

The problem is most likely that you get a space to much in front of the License key when you copy paste ;-)

You can even install (copy) the Player to a share on your server and run it from th...

Written by DataEase 24/06/25 at 13:51:41 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 224 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Hello!  Apologies for the late response.  Your question regarding running Player that shipped with Developer vs. standalone Player is an interesting one!  On 5 machines I installed Developer first, then the player that shipped with it.&...

Written by Smart Print & Labels 24/06/25 at 11:25:14 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 224 days old.

Re:Re:The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

Hi all, may be new DataEase release instead ? It is more close to the subject matter … enough is enough tfor testing windows insider previews nevertheless!

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 22/06/25 at 06:22:38 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 226 days old.

Re:The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

Encountered that issue.  In my case it always happened when the PC had pending windows updates.  Do the updates, and it will install correctly.

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Written by Josef Vella 21/06/25 at 07:31:58 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 226 days old.

Re:The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

This is possibly not the most recent version of 8.5?

The problem is mess with the Microsoft MSVC re-distributables. Download the latest version. Unistall the current version. Reboot the computer and install the latest version.

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Written by DataEase 20/06/25 at 15:05:09 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 226 days old.

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

I installed DataEase on a stand-alone laptop with Window 10 and i am getting the following error when I try open it;

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please
see the application...

Written by Godfrey 20/06/25 at 14:11:13 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 226 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Do you run the player that is shipped with Developer or do you use the dedicated Player install?

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Written by DataEase 18/06/25 at 13:58:24 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 224 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Does the procedures that crash by any chance use any CDF's or something like that?

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Written by DataEase 18/06/25 at 13:57:07 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 224 days old.