Checking particular Descriptive Flexfield

Question

Hi everyone
I would like to know that , is there any way to check exactly in which foram a particular DFF is there.. Suppose i know a DFF name and i want to know exactly in which form this DFF comes? Is there any way to check this? Please let me know if anybody knows this?
With Thanx
Sunil

Answer 1

Any form that implements DFF needs to have a call to fnd_descr_flex.define. The form needs to pass the DFF name to the parameter DESC_FLEX_NAME of this procedure. Perhaps using this info, you can grep the forms files for the DFF name. However since the form files are stored as fmb (binary format), grepping on form files may not give an exact match. Still you can try doing something like the below although the results may not be correct[i].
1) Go to $AU_TOP/forms/US
2) Run the command
fgrep -i "DESC_FLEX_NAME=>'PER_ADDRESSES'" *.fmb
Instead of PER_ADDRESSES, use your DFF name. The command is likely to get you the form files that have implemented that DFF. For example the above command returned the result
"Binary file PERACADR.fmb matches".