Forms 6i availability? I'm Disappointed.

Here is my issue/question. It is obvious that 6i has been out for a WHILE! I have seen many posted messages, iTARS, etc referencing the availability of downloading forms updates, availablity of getting patches, etc. My company currently owns serveral licenses of Forms, we pay a good deal of money for support, and yet it is April 27, and I still don't have Forms 6i. How much do we have to pay and who do we have to kiss to get a freakin update from Oracle? We have logged at least three techical tars in the last month, all of which we were told that it was fixed in 6i and we would have to wait. Well, we are waiting.......and so are our clients. Perhaps the solution is www.microsoft.com? To the folks at Oracle, I say clean up your act. The developer community does not deserve this type of treatment. And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE fix this web site. Your downloads are always broken. Please read the messages below. I'm not the only one!!!

I don't bother trying to download from Technet anymore using HTTP. I find accessing ftp://ftp.oracle.com/otn to be much more reliable. The only problem is that it takes ages to actually get the initial connection, since all the available connections are usually in use. You also have to use a bit of intuition and guesswork to find the files you want. So far this week, I've retrieved JDeveloper 3.1, Forms 6i and OAS 4.0.8.1. You're all correct though, it shouldn't have to be this way and Oracle will have to sort these problems out if they want to attain and retain kudos with the developer community.

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"flash0777" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a real estate property table that I'd like to
query. The form
> itself
> let's the user search by state, county, zip code etc.
The user need not
> enter
> all the information. For eg: If the user just selects a
state and
> searches, I
> should list all properties that belong to that state.
But if the user also
> selects a county along with state then I should filter
the results by
> state AND
> county. This situation applies for a lot of the form
parameters.
>
> Now, in Dreamweaver when I try to create a recordset, I
want to append
> AND county = $_REQUEST
> to the end of my record set query if and only if the
user selected a
> county.
> If the user didn't select the county, I do not want to
have that as part
> of my
> query.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this in DW? I understand that
variables let you
> define a default var. I donot even want to specify a
default value.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!!
>

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Hi guys,
Could you please help me to figure out what is going wrong
with my form which run a report?
I am using Developer suite 10g.
when i run report from report application it run fine,
but when i call that report from a form it gives me error.
I have checked the datatype, checked the parameter value
that I assign from form is available in the report parameter value.
What else do i have to check in order to run this report
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Invalid value for parameter 'P_YEAR'.
Your insight will be appreciated.

Thank you for reply Denis,
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DECLARE
-- variables for running individual reports
report_filename               VARCHAR2(40);
var_reportpath               VARCHAR2(100);
report_otherparms      VARCHAR2(200);
-- variables to keep track of successful reports in silent mode
rep_status                         VARCHAR2(40);
rep_req                                   NUMBER := 0;
rep_count                              NUMBER := 0;
dummy                                        NUMBER;
-- variables to load the report names and checkboxes into the parameter list
pl_id                                        PARAMLIST;
plname                                   VARCHAR2(20) := 'rpt_list';
-- variables to loop through the parameter list and run the reports
i                                                  NUMBER;
split_loc                              NUMBER;
     param_value                         VARCHAR2(40);
     checkbox_name                    VARCHAR2(40);
     report_basename               VARCHAR2(40);
     svc_name                              VARCHAR2(4);
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hosp_exist BOOLEAN := get_current_service_count( :global.filename_prefix, 'HOSPICE',
                    :reports_control.year_list, :reports_control.quarter_list,
                    :reports_control.group_list );
orth_exist BOOLEAN := get_current_service_count( :global.filename_prefix, 'O/P',
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                    :reports_control.group_list );
BEGIN
-- Are any reports selected?
IF BOXES_ARE_CHECKED(:System.Cursor_Block,'PRINT_NULL_REPORT') THEN
if not CHECKBOX_CHECKED('print_null_report') then
disp_exist := TRUE;
orth_exist := TRUE;
hosp_exist := TRUE;
end if;
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pl_id := GET_PARAMETER_LIST(plname);
if NOT ID_NULL(pl_id) then
     DESTROY_PARAMETER_LIST(pl_id);
end if;
pl_id := CREATE_PARAMETER_LIST(plname);
if ID_NULL(pl_id) then
     GENERIC_ALERT('Error creating report listing');
     RAISE Form_Trigger_Failure;
end if;
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ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id2', TEXT_PARAMETER,'utilization_profile!ALLUTIL');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id3', TEXT_PARAMETER,'utilization_summary!ALL_SUMMARY');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id4', TEXT_PARAMETER,'hiv_profile!HIV_PROFILE');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id5', TEXT_PARAMETER,'wound_care_profile!WOUND_CARE_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id6', TEXT_PARAMETER,'top_10_diagnosis!TOP10DIAG');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id7', TEXT_PARAMETER,'diagnosis_profile!DIAG_PROFILE');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id8', TEXT_PARAMETER,'physician_profile!PHYS_PROFILE');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id9', TEXT_PARAMETER,'physician_specialty!PHYS_SPECIALTY');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id10',TEXT_PARAMETER,'discharge_profile!DISCHARGE_PROFILE');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id11',TEXT_PARAMETER,'acute_care_discharge!ACUTE_DSCHRG');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id12',TEXT_PARAMETER,'excessive_cost_patients!EXCESSIVE_COST');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id13',TEXT_PARAMETER,'provider_profile!PROV_PROFILE');
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ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id15',TEXT_PARAMETER,'age_gender_profile!AGE_GENDER_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id16',TEXT_PARAMETER,'network_services!NETWORK_SERVICES');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id17',TEXT_PARAMETER,'thh_section_header!THH_COVER');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id18',TEXT_PARAMETER,'thh_utilization!THH_UTILIZATION');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id19',TEXT_PARAMETER,'thh_service_profile!THH_SVC_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id20',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hit_section_header!HIT_COVER');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id21',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hit_utilization!HIT_UTILIZATION');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id22',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hit_service_profile!HIT_SVC_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id23',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hme_section_header!HME_COVER');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id24',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hme_utilization!HME_UTILIZATION');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id25',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hme_service_profile!HME_SVC_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id26',TEXT_PARAMETER,'disp_section_header!DISP_COVER');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id27',TEXT_PARAMETER,'disp_utilization!DISP_UTILIZATION');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id28',TEXT_PARAMETER,'disp_service_profile!DISP_SVC_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id29',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hosp_section_header!HOSP_COVER');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id30',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hosp_utilization!HOSP_UTILIZATION');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id31',TEXT_PARAMETER,'hosp_service_profile!HOSP_SVC_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id32',TEXT_PARAMETER,'orth_section_header!ORTH_COVER');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id33',TEXT_PARAMETER,'orth_utilization!ORTH_UTILIZATION');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id34',TEXT_PARAMETER,'orth_service_profile!ORTH_SVC_PROF');
ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id,'id35',TEXT_PARAMETER,'encounter_detail!ENCOUNTER_DETAIL');
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if :reports_control.output_choices = 'FILE' then
var_reportpath := :global.report_directory || :reports_control.year_list;
if :global.filename_suffix <> '_A10G' then
     var_reportpath := var_reportpath || 'q' || :reports_control.quarter_list;
end if;
var_reportpath := var_reportpath || '_G' || :reports_control.group_list || '_';
else
     var_reportpath := '';
end if;
report_otherparms := 'p_year='||:reports_control.year_list;
if :global.filename_suffix <> '_A10G' then
     report_otherparms := report_otherparms || '     p_quarter='||:reports_control.quarter_list;
end if;
report_otherparms := report_otherparms || ' P_REPORTGROUPID='||:reports_control.group_list;
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     for i in 1..35 loop
          GET_PARAMETER_ATTR(pl_id,'id'||i,dummy,param_value);
          split_loc := instr(param_value,'!');
          checkbox_name := substr(param_value,1,split_loc-1);
          report_basename := substr(param_value,split_loc+1,length(param_value));
if CHECKBOX_CHECKED(checkbox_name) then
     run_report := TRUE;
     svc_name := substr(report_basename,1,4);
     if svc_name = 'DISP' then
          if not disp_exist then
               run_report := FALSE;
          end if;
     elsif svc_name = 'ORTH' then
          if not orth_exist then
               run_report := FALSE;
          end if;
     elsif svc_name = 'HOSP' then
          if not hosp_exist then
               run_report := FALSE;
          end if;
     end if;
     if run_report then
          report_filename := :global.filename_prefix || report_basename || '_10G';---- :global.filename_prefix || report_basename || :global.filename_suffix;
     GENERIC_ALERT(report_filename || ' ' || report_otherparms);
          rep_status := GENERATE_REPORT(report_filename,:reports_control.output_choices,var_reportpath,report_otherparms);
          rep_req := rep_req + 1;
          if rep_status = 'FINISHED' then
               rep_count := rep_count + 1;
          end if;
     end if;
     end if;
     end loop;
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     if :reports_control.output_choices = 'FILE' and CHECKBOX_CHECKED('chk_silent') then
          SET_ALERT_PROPERTY('REPORT_CREATED',alert_message_text,
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          dummy := SHOW_ALERT('REPORT_CREATED');
end if;
ELSE
dummy := SHOW_ALERT('select_report');
END IF;
END;

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A Practical Solution
h2. {color:#993300}*But first, some background on the problem*{color}
The Form components available in JSF will not let you specify the target action, everything is a post-back. When using container security, however, you have to specifically submit to the magic action j_security_check to trigger authentication. This means that the only way to do this in a JSF page is to use an HTML form tag enclosed in verbatim tags. This has the side effect that the post is not handled by JSF at all meaning you can't take advantage of normal JSF functionality such as validators, plus you have a horrible chimera of a page containing both markup and components. This screws up things like skinning. ([credit to Duncan Mills in this 2 years old article|http://groundside.com/blog/DuncanMills.php?title=j2ee_security_a_jsf_based_login_form&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1]).
In this solution, I will use a pure JSF page as the login page that the end user interacts with. This page will simply gather the input for the username and password and pass that on to a plain old jsp proxy to do the actual submit. This will avoid the whole problem of having to use verbatim tags or a mixture of JSF and JSP in the user view.
h2. {color:#993300}*Step 1: Configure the Security Realm in the Web App Container*{color}
What is a container? A container is basically a security framework that is implemented directly by whatever app server you are running, in my case Glassfish v2ur2 that comes with Netbeans 6.1. Your container can have multiple security realms. Each realm manages a definition of the security "*principles*" that are defined to interact with your application. A security principle is basically just a user of the system that is defined by three fields:
- Username
- Group
- Password
The security realm can be set up to authenticate using a simple file, or through JDBC, or LDAP, and more. In my case, I am using a "file" based realm. The users are statically defined directly through the app server interface. Here's how to do it (on Glassfish):
1. Start up your app server and log into the admin interface (http://localhost:4848)
2. Drill down into Configuration > Security > Realms.
3. Here you will see the default realms defined on the server. Drill down into the file realm.
4. There is no need to change any of the default settings. Click the Manage Users button.
5. Create a new user by entering username/password.
Note: If you enter a group name then you will be able to define permissions based on group in your app, which is much more usefull in a real app.
I entered a group named "Users" since my app will only have one set of permissions and all users should be authenticated and treated the same.
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Since I'm a newbie to JSF, I am using Netbeans 6.1 so that I can play around with all of the fancy Visual Web JavaServer Faces components and the visual designer.
1. Start by creating a new Visual Web JSF project.
2. Next, create a new subfolder under your web root called "secure". This is the folder that we will define a Security Constraint for in a later step, so that any user trying to access any page in this folder will be redirected to a login page to sign in, if they haven't already.
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In my very simple project I have 3 pages set up. Create the following files using the default templates in Netbeans 6.1:
1. login.jsp (A Visual Web JSF file)
2. loginproxy.jspx (A plain JSPX file)
3. secure/securepage.jsp (A Visual Web JSF file... Note that it is in the sub-folder named secure)
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    </navigation-rule>
NOTE: This navigation rule simply forwards the request to loginproxy.jspx whenever the user clicks the submit button. The button1_action() method below returns the "loginproxy" case to make this happen.
h3. {color:#ff6600}*login.jsp -- A very simple Visual Web JSF file with two input fields and a button:*{color}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="2.1"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
    <jsp:directive.page
contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
    <f:view>
        <webuijsf:page
id="page1">
<webuijsf:html id="html1">
<webuijsf:head id="head1">
<webuijsf:link id="link1"
url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
</webuijsf:head>
<webuijsf:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
<webuijsf:form id="form1">
<webuijsf:textField binding="#{login.username}"
id="username" style="position: absolute; left: 216px; top:
96px"/>
<webuijsf:passwordField binding="#{login.password}" id="password"
style="left: 216px; top: 144px; position: absolute"/>
<webuijsf:button actionExpression="#{login.button1_action}"
id="button1" style="position: absolute; left: 216px; top:
216px" text="GO"/>
</webuijsf:form>
</webuijsf:body>
</webuijsf:html>
        </webuijsf:page>
    </f:view>
</jsp:root>h3. *login.java -- implent the
button1_action() method in the login.java backing bean*
    public String button1_action() {
        setValue("#{requestScope.username}",
(String)username.getValue());
setValue("#{requestScope.password}", (String)password.getValue());
        return "loginproxy";
    }h3. {color:#ff6600}*loginproxy.jspx -- a login proxy that the user never sees. The onload="document.forms[0].submit()" automatically submits the form as soon as it is rendered in the browser.*{color}
{code}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
version="2.0">
<jsp:output omit-xml-declaration="true" doctype-root-element="HTML"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
doctype-public="-W3CDTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"/>
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<html>
<head> <meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Logging in...</title>
</head>
<body
onload="document.forms[0].submit()">
<form
action="j_security_check" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="j_username"
value="${requestScope.username}" />
<input type="hidden" name="j_password"
value="${requestScope.password}" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
</jsp:root>
{code}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*secure/securepage.jsp -- A simple JSF{color}
target page, placed in the secure folder to test access*
{code}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="2.1"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
<jsp:directive.page
contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<f:view>
<webuijsf:page
id="page1">
<webuijsf:html id="html1">
<webuijsf:head id="head1">
<webuijsf:link id="link1"
url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
</webuijsf:head>
<webuijsf:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
<webuijsf:form id="form1">
<webuijsf:staticText id="staticText1" style="position:
absolute; left: 168px; top: 144px" text="A Secure Page"/>
</webuijsf:form>
</webuijsf:body>
</webuijsf:html>
</webuijsf:page>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
{code}
h2. {color:#993300}*_Step 4: Configure Declarative Security_*{color}
This type of security is called +declarative+ because it is not configured programatically. It is configured by declaring all of the relevant parameters in the configuration files: *web.xml* and *sun-web.xml*. Once you have it configured, the container (application server and java framework) already have the implementation to make everything work for you.
*web.xml will be used to define:*
- Type of security - We will be using "form based". The loginpage.jsp we created will be set as both the login and error page.
- Security Roles - The security role defined here will be mapped (in sun-web.xml) to users or groups.
- Security Constraints - A security constraint defines the resource(s) that is being secured, and which Roles are able to authenticate to them.
*sun-web.xml will be used to define:*
- This is where you map a Role to the Users or Groups that are allowed to use it.
+I know this is confusing the first time, but basically it works like this:+
*Security Constraint for a URL* -> mapped to -> *Role* -> mapped to -> *Users & Groups*
h3. {color:#ff6600}*web.xml -- here's the relevant section:*{color}
{code}
<security-constraint>
<display-name>SecurityConstraint</display-name>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>SecurePages</web-resource-name>
<description/>
<url-pattern>/faces/secure/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>HEAD</http-method>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description/>
<role-name>User</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name/>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/faces/login.jsp</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/faces/login.jsp</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<description/>
<role-name>User</role-name>
</security-role>
{code}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*sun-web.xml -- here's the relevant section:*{color}
{code}
<security-role-mapping>
<role-name>User</role-name>
<group-name>Users</group-name>
</security-role-mapping>
{code}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*Almost done!!!*{color}
h2. {color:#993300}*_Step 5: A couple of minor "Gotcha's"_ *{color}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*_Gotcha #1_*{color}
You need to configure the "welcome page" in web.xml to point to faces/secure/securepage.jsp ... Note that there is *_no_* leading / ... If you put a / in there it will barf all over itself .
h3. {color:#ff6600}*_Gotcha #2_*{color}
Note that we set the <form-login-page> in web.xml to /faces/login.jsp ... Note the leading / ... This time, you NEED the leading slash, or the server will gag.
*DONE!!!*
h2. {color:#993300}*_Here's how it works:_*{color}
1. The user requests the a page from your context (http://localhost/MyLogin/)
2. The servlet forwards the request to the welcome page: faces/secure/securepage.jsp
3. faces/secure/securepage.jsp has a security constraint defined, so the servlet checks to see if the user is authenticated for the session.
4. Of course the user is not authenticated since this is the first request, so the servlet forwards the request to the login page we configured in web.xml (/faces/login.jsp).
5. The user enters username and password and clicks a button to submit.
6. The button's action method stores away the username and password in the request scope.
7. The button returns "loginproxy" navigation case which tells the navigation handler to forward the request to loginproxy.jspx
8. loginproxy.jspx renders a blank page to the user which has hidden username and password fields.
9. The hidden username and password fields grab the username and password variables from the request scope.
10. The loginproxy page is automatically submitted with the magic action "j_security_check"
11. j_security_check notifies the container that authentication needs to be intercepted and handled.
12. The container authenticates the user credentials.
13. If the credentials fail, the container forwards the request to the login.jsp page.
14. If the credentials pass, the container forwards the request to *+the last protected resource that was attempted.+*
+Note the last point! I don't know how, but no matter how many times you fail authentication, the container remembers the last page that triggered authentication and once you finally succeed the container forwards your request there!!!!+
+The user is now at the secure welcome page.+
If you have read this far, I thank you for your time, and I seriously question your ability to ration your time pragmatically.
Kerry Randolph

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This method allows you to create a custom login form and error page using JSF.
The container handles the actual authentication and protection of the resources based on what you declare in web.xml and sun-web.xml.
This example uses a statically defined user/password, stored in a file, but you can also configure JDBC realm in Glassfish, so that that users can register for access and your program can store the username/passwrod in a database.
I'm new to programming, so none of this may be a good practice, or may not be secure at all.
I really don't know what I'm doing, but I'm learning, and this has been the easiest way that I have found to add authentication to a web app, without having to write the login modules yourself.
Another benefit, and I think this is key ***You don't have to include any extra code in the pages that you want to protect*** The container manages this for you, based on the constraints you declare in web.xml.
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