POWER BROKER 4 - Quick Fixes Technical Reference
 

This table was created to keep a listing of technical observations of our new version Power Broker 4.0.

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Although attempts are made to make the information in these bulletins accurate and understandable, they are only a guide. Any time you are making changes to Power Broker or to Windows, there is a chance of things going wrong. If you feel something is beyond your abilities or just not quite clear, contact our technical support department or get someone with computer experience to help you.


This webpage is just a tool that we will be using to keep things noted so that should you have a technical question, you have an option to visit here first and do a search.  Thank you.
July 7/2008
 
  Error Message   Solution  
1 Windows 98 - Power Broker 4.0
16 Bit Video Card skews / blurs the screen .
  On one of our test machines, Power Broker 4.0 on a Windows 98 machine had a video card that could only be set to 16 bit as the highest level in Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings, click on the color quality and change it to 32 bit.  If your card does not support 32 bit color, then you will need to please change your video card to a 32 bit card and test again.  
2 Error Number 1002
Error Message : Input/output operation failure
Program : Pack and ReIndex
  Open Utilities, Define Your Company Information, Software Directories, and ensure that the Power Broker drive and path are correct.  Compare to the target line located in your Power Broker Icon on your desktop by right clicking, choosing properties, and clicking the shortcut tab.  
3 Error 1327
Invalid Drive Specification
E:\
  A) If drive letters have been changed on your computer, re-assign the original letter to the CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or operating system drive. Follow the steps appropriate to your operating system:

B) Verify that registry entries do not contain invalid drive letters that might be causing this error:

Click here
 
 
4 Error 1904 Module C:\Program Files\Common Files\Power Broker\viscomsoft\Scanner.ocx failed to register. HRESULT.  Contact you support personnel.   This error occurred when a customer ran Workstation.exe from a Terminal Server connection and didn't have enough permissions.  Please try sitting right at the server, and run workstation.exe  
5 Error 1426
OLE Error Code : Class Not Registered
 
  This error occurred when clicking on the camera icon on the customer screen.  One solution was browse to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Power Broker\viscomsoft and delete imageviewer2.ocx, scanner.ocx, and viscompdf.dll and run your \BRO\WORKSTATION.EXE file again.  Then try again.  
6 Word Integration
Confirm Data Source
 
  This means that you have not configured your Word Integration correctly, please click here and print/follow these included instructions.  This usually means that you either have dbase located in your ODBC data sources, or you are missing FoxPro files - Word  
7 Word Integration
Error 1429
  This error usually occurs right after confirm data source when the odbc drivers are not setup correctly.  You either have dbase located in your ODBC data sources, or you are missing FoxPro files - Word  
8 Word Integration
This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine failures.  Please try again
 
This seems to happen on one template at a time.
Open Windows Explorer, browsed to \bro\word97 folder.  If you find a ~$xxx.doc name of the abbreviated name, delete this document.  These documents are usually created when a word document is having issues saving/retrieving from the server.

Open the good document directly from clicking on the .doc name, and it will give you the 'options' 'remove data header sources' error, and then I close it. 
 
Try running the form again and it should work fine.
 
9 Opening Power Broker
Fatal Error:  Exception Code - Error log file:  C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP\vfp8err.log
This error occurs after you click on 'Yes' when it asks 'Convert 3.0 resource file to 6.0 Format'
  In Windows Explorer, delete foxuser.dbf and foxuser.fpt.  If the system will not allow you to delete these two files because they are being used someone else, this means that the files are locked on your server.  The way to release these files is to go to the server, Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Shared Folders, Open Files, and find/close anyone using foxuser.dbf and foxuser.fpt.  
10 Vista - Aero - Display Issues   Until Resolved, should you find that you are having a display issue with Vista, please go to Start, Control Panel, Personalization, Appearance, and change from Aero, to Vista Basic, or some other option, and then test.  
11 Variable 'MQPLACE' is not found
Writing Cheques
  Contact Technical Support about restoring this file from a copy that a technical support staff will provide to you.
(Q:\BRO)
 
12 Error 36
Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword - Clicking on 'Outstanding Abeyance from the main PB desktop
  Check to see if the user I.D. is numeric.  If so, exit all Power Broker users, and go to Tables, User Security Codes, create a new users matching the same security settings as the existing user, go to Utilities, Change User Security Codes and run this from the numeric code to the alpha code.  
13 Vfp8r.dll is corrupt   1)  Browse to C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\MicrosoftShared\VFP and delete vfp8r.dll and then install \BRO\Workstation.exe again
2)  Delete \BRO\Foxuser.dbf and \BRO\Foxuser.fpt file and try logging in again.
3)  Shut down workstation, and log back on, and test again
4)  Disconnect mapped drive, and reconnect mapped drive
 
14 Error 1102
Cannot Create J:\BRO\GG\FORMNAME.DBF
  This error occurs when a user i.d. folder is not created.
Open Windows Explorer, browse to your \BRO folder and create a folder that matches the User Code.  In this example the users' code is GG.
 
15 Error 202
Pack and Re-Index
  Usually this means that you are sitting at a computer that does not have the same drive letter as indicated in Utilities, Define Your Company Information, Software Directories.  If you are in an office with 20 people and every desktop PB Icon points to H:\BRO\BROW.EXE but you are sitting at the server and PB is in C:\DATA\BRO\BROW.EXE, then sitting at the server, map a drive letter H back to it's own C:\DATA directory and create a new Icon on the desktop pointing to H:\BRO\BROW.exe  
16 Error 107 - Operator/Operand type mismatch when printing applications   In one case, there was a corrupted .mem file for Define your company information.  Restore from Backup.  If you restore from a backup that was from Build 3.32, then you will also need to go into Software Directories, and add the drive path to your Mastercom EDI software.  
17 On the log in screen, your cursor does not default into the password box   config.fpw should have screen=off, so edit this file in notepad, add the line and then save  
18 Printing 1298   Test to another printer, change printer driver, re-install driver  
19
Word Conversion - Error 7
  This can happen of two documents somehow have the same name.  Open Power Broker, go to Forms, Delete Word Documents, find a document that has a duplicate name and delete either one or both letters.  Once deleted, exit Power Broker, go to start, run, browse to the \bro folder and find a file called msword_update.exe and launch this file.  Once launched, it's going to update the templates again.  
20 CompuQuote - Must specify additional parameters   This is as Citrix/Terminal Server setting. 

You will have to setup up the home folders with a mapped drive letter.  

You will have to setup home folder for the Citrix users instead of running through C:\documents and settings for their local files.

 
21 Broker Management Software - Broker Management Software has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience - This may happen during an upgrade from Build 32 to Version 4.  

The set compatibility mode on BROW.exe was set to Windows95.  Right click over brow.exe and go to Properties to view these details.  Unselected this setting and now they are able to launch.

 

 
22 While Running PowerTools
16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
\BRO\FOXRUN.PIF
c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt
The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows Applications.  Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.  Close/Ignore
  This error was discovered on a computer that had a missing c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt file.  The file was restored from c:\windows\repair and PowerTools ran as it should.  
23 EDI - Send and Receive - Proceed
Error 36 - Command Contains Unrecognized Phrase/Keyword
  Utilities, Define your Company information, Software Directories, Mastercom EDI path had a space between the G:\ and the word EMAIL.  Check for spaces.  
24 Microsoft Word Integration
Forms, Create or Edit Word Template
This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine failures.  Please try again later.  OK
  If you receive this error, click 'OK', Microsoft Word will launch the letter.  Click on 'Save Document and return to Power Broker'.  After a brief pause, Word will display a 'Recover my work and restart Microsoft Office Word' message.  Uncheck this box and click on Don't Send.  Please try editing your template a second time.  It should be reset and ready for use.  
25 EDI, Reformat Latest CSIO Download
does not reformat
  Corrupt or invalid entries in memos.dbf, fpt, cdx files.  Someone placed Question Marks in the Machine Address in CSIO TAbles.  Once the question marks were removed, the reforat worked.  
26 Error Number 4
End of File Encountered
  This was due to a user not 'Tagging' the producer code with an X when choosing a report by a specific producer.  This would happen in other menus where tagging is involved.  
27 Error 1753 Cannot Load 32 Bit DLL
Foxfix5.dll, FixCorruptTables
  This error is a result of a Windows Security setting that can either be disabled, or settings may be added to by pass this error.  Click here for more details.  
28 During Upgrade to Version 4
Could not find path
218 or 228
Bro81w
Form_p1
  This happened when a local tech skipped the part of the instructions where you go into Utilities, and run the Update MS Word Document Structures in Build 32 before the upgrade.  We went into Forms, Delete Custom Form Letters and deleted any invalid name that had spaces or symbols.  
29 Error Number 15
Not a table
FORM1.NEXISYS_SAVE
  Copy the nexisys.dbf FROM the \BRO\AD folder TO the IMAGE Storage directory mentioned in Utilities, Define your Company Information, Software Directories, Image Storage path.  
30 popupf.prg Does Not Exist   Go to Tables, User Preferences, change language from French to English.  
31 Error 1113 during Pack and Re-index   Corrupted .CDX file.  Figure out which one and restore.  

 

   
 
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