Forms 6i to 9i migration: FAQ/Detailed HOW-TO Guide?

Question

Hi,
I've reviewed the two Migration documents I've been able to find on OTN but they are not clear on a couple of matters:
1.) In my migrated forms, I have a few multi-line text items. The Carrige-Return/Linefeed characters are displaying as a
square box at teh end of each line. My forms started out on MS Windows 2000 and were ported to and re-generated on
Linux (where my 9iAS Rel 2 Middle-Tier lives). Is there a way to fix this?
2.) The info on converting RUN_PRODUCT to RUN_REPORT_OBJECT does not give much info on how to
create the REPORT_OBJECT. Should I be looking for a "Migrating to Forms 6i" guide?
In general, is there an FAQ or HOW-TO guide for the migration - a checklist of sorts - anywhere? I'm evaluating the
move from Client/Server to Webforms. Since part of this would involve the extra cost of one (or more) Application
Servers, I'll need to have a list of application changes - if the list is small enough, the benefits (web-deployment)
could outweigh the costs (application changes, new 9iAS licences.)
Thanks for any help
Ted

Answer 1

It could be bug:1012647 (which is infact not a bug).
The widget when running webforms is rendered in Java. It MAY be that the interprets CHR(10)+CHR(13) together to display a
chararcter instead of the a new line.
Try and have a look at the data and see if you have CHR10+CHR13 in the data, see if yuo can change this to CHR(10) only and see
if that works.
For more info on running reports - see http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/277282.pdf
Hope this helps.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management Thanks! I've noticed - with my eval version of a production system - that the sqaure box only seems to be displayed with PL/Sql generated text where I do use CHR(13)||chr(10). I'll look into a PL/Sql search-and-replace.
Thanks again.
Ted