External Query Source in reports...

Dear Oracle Friends
Description: I have a report on master table with 5 columns. I prepared an interface to call the report using Forms 6.0. User is allowed to set the WHERE clause, ORDER BY clause and sorting order (ascending/descending). In order to give this flexibility I specified external query source in my report. Whenever the user selects the criteria I just update that query file.
Problem: When I set the EXTERNAL QUERY SOURCE FILE property by selecting the path using dialogue box, this path is hard coded in the report. At the time of development the location of SQL file is say C:\ORAWIN95\FORMS60\XXX SYSTEM\REPORTS\SQLS\ but when I install the application at User machine the location of SQL file will be say D:\ORAWIN95\XXX_SYS\REPORTS\SQLS\. When I run the report at User machine is generates the error 'External Query source not found...'
What I want to do: Dyanmically get the path of SQL file. I tried to give only the external query file name but it didn't worked.
Any suggestions are most welcome.

You should be able to use REPORTS60_PATH for this. Just specify the filename (<x>.sql) inside the Builder, and ensure that the file is in one of the directories specified in the REPORTS60_PATH registry entry (which you can, of course, edit).

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