Create an Alert in Oracle forms 9i

Question

I created an Alert in the form with two buttons (YES,NO buttons). Where to insert the codes for YES button and NO button?
Please help! Thanks
Patty

Answer 1

The Forms Help System will show you have to do this. Look up "FIND_ALERT" and there are examples. The SHOW_ALERT built-in is a function and returns a constant that identifies the button selected by the user. The following was taken directly from the FIND_ALERT help topic:
/*** Built-in: FIND_ALERT
** Example: Show a user-warning alert. If the user presses
** the OK button, then make REALLY sure they want
** to continue with another alert. */
DECLARE
  al_id Alert;
  al_button NUMBER;
BEGIN
  al_id := Find_Alert('User_Warning');
  IF Id_Null(al_id) THEN
     Message('User_Warning alert does not exist');
     RAISE Form_Trigger_Failure;
  ELSE
    /* ** Show the warning alert */
    al_button := Show_Alert(al_id);
   ** If user pressed OK (button 1) then bring up another
   ** alert to confirm -- button mappings are specified
   ** in the alert design */
   IF al_button = ALERT_BUTTON1 THEN
     al_id := Find_Alert('Are_You_Sure');
     IF Id_Null(al_id) THEN
       Message('The alert named: Are you sure? does not exist');
       RAISE Form_Trigger_Failure;
     ELSE
       al_button := Show_Alert(al_id);
       IF al_button = ALERT_BUTTON2 THEN
         Erase_All_Employee_Records;
       END IF;
     END IF;
   END IF;
  END IF;
END; Craig...