Close IE when exit form

Question

Hi how can i close IE when i click on the exit button on my form. At the moment i'm using 'EXIT_FORM;'.

Answer 1

Hi Jagadish,
If Francois' simpler solution isn't working for you, and you want to try the close.htm route, then you need to make sure that htm file is somewhere that the browser can get to it. Because I have a few other supporting files for my app - htm pages, images etc. - I created a new dedicated folder to store them, and mapped a virtual directory by editing <ORACLE_HOME>/forms/server/forms.conf.
If you look in that file, you'll see the syntax for other virtual directories already in place, but basically you add something like:
AliasMatch ^/forms/my_new_directory/(..*) "<ORACLE_HOME>/forms/my_new_directory/$1"
... replacing the <ORACLE_HOME> with the explicit path of your apps server home.
Drop your .htm file into the new directory; ignoring Forms for a moment, make sure you can access it directly using a URL like:
http://your_server.your_company.com:7781/forms/my_new_directory/close.htm
(If you access it successfully, of course, the browser will immediately shut down!)
Then use Web.Show_Document('my_new_directory/close.htm','_self'); - hopefully that should find it.
Incidentally, I'm working in separateFrame=false. And I had thought that calling Javascript directly from Web.Show_Document() was to be avoided - see e.g. Hide adress bar for security issue On the other hand, Francois is a man who usually knows what he's talking about!
James