Dynamically finding form parameters

Hi all,
I am using Forms 6i.
I want to give my users the ability to 'bookmark' any form they are currently in enabling them to return to that form later displaying that data by selecting that bookmark (very much like a web browser's bookmarks.)
To do this I need to be able to dynamically find out what form parameters are in any form. Whilst I can use GET_FORM_PROPERTY(FIRST_BLOCK) etc to find out what blocks and items are in a form, I cannot see any way of finding out what parameters it contains and what values they hold.
Can anyone help me out with this?
Thank you,
David.

Maybe you could convert the forms to .fmt's and parse them? I bet that'd be a mess.
To expand on my previous suggestion, when you build your parameter list in FormA to call FormB, use a library proc that (1) adds the parameter and value to the param list, and (2) writes the userid, session id, form name (FormB), param name and value to a table. Then, when a user is running FormB and decides to bookmark it, query the table by userid, session id, and form name for the parameters that were used when it was called.
I know that isn't as neat as what you're looking for, but could it work for you?

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