Forms 4.5 to Forms 6.0 conversion

One of our developers is having problems converting forms 4.5
forms to forms 6.0. Is there a specific tool for converting
the forms or do you just bring the old form up in the new
designer tool and the conversion happens automatically?
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Cecil Whitaker (guest) wrote:
: One of our developers is having problems converting forms 4.5
: forms to forms 6.0. Is there a specific tool for converting
: the forms or do you just bring the old form up in the new
: designer tool and the conversion happens automatically?
Yes.. you can just open the forms of 4.5 with Forms Designer 6.0.
The conversion takes place automatically, however, you might have
to take in consideration that if you are using certain fucntions
of Forms 4,5, in which some parameters are optional, then those
might be mandatory in Forms 6.0.
For e.g. Run_product.
-bj
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