Best editor for Forms

Hi everyone,
Im runing Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2).
what is the best editor for forms.
Or how can I modify forms created by other developer?
Help, plz.
Igi
Edited by: 874598 on Jul 24, 2011 10:57 AM

I can think of a reason. We create very large forms and some of the defaults drive me crazy. Is there another way?
For example, by default forms adds 1 to the size of numeric fields. We almost never want that. So lets say there is a table
with hundreds of number(1) fields destined to be radio buttons most likely in the 1 -- 5 range. So we end up with a form
that has them all be number(2) and one has to change it. Is there another way to change default behavior? And is there a way
to set property defaults? For example suppose I want all items created be upper case and auto skip automatically. How to do it?
One could I think create the block and then convert to xml with frmf2xml, change it there, and then
frmxml2f back to an fmb. Could we not?
Bigger reasons would be to create forms. One could come up with a specification language and create the form in xml or parts of it.
for example this kind of specification can be used for radio buttons in application express, label semicolon returnvalue comma
STATIC2:Fully retired;1,Partially retired;2,Full-time;3,Not Employed;4,None;
(combined with the number_of_radio_columns [horizontal columns so could be 5 for horizontal or 1 for vertical in this case]
Then application express creates and lays them out for you. That is a super time saver. It is a lot of work to create these in forms,
especially because there is separate object for each one and ideally one wants them to be named appropriately too and likely
colored. For example a Null or None button that only exists to unset the button if it were set by accident needs to be colored
in such a way and/or offset so as to indicate it is not a real choice so to speak. For example if this was a paper form that had been
filled out there likely would not be a missing selection (but there could be e.g. don't know, n/a, do not want to answer... etc.)
If it never appeared on the original then it's important to not confuse data entry people with a choice that looks like the original
choices.
so imagine we could specify radio buttons and checkboxes ahead of time and have them be created automatically.
But I have not tried it...
Edited by: lake on Jul 31, 2011 12:11 PM
Edited by: lake on Jul 31, 2011 12:19 PM

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