Forms in 10g environment

Hi,
Could anybody give me some guidelines concerning using Forms 10g ? ... I have a huge experience with Forms 6i ... but for the Forms 10g integration I have no idea how to do it ... I fact I wanna compile my own form in an 10g environment and after that get it on web ... I will appreciate any ideas ...
Thanks to all, Paul

I recommend you begin by looking at these documents about migrating Forms 6i.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/htdocs/upgrade/index.html
http://www.oratransplant.nl/category/oracle/forms/6i-to-10g-upgrade/

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thanks,
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I need a code to run a report from a forms on 10G...

Hi!! I´m migrating from 6i to 10G and i cant run a report... can someone send me a sample code to run a report from a form in 10G??
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Regards!

iam using Javabean in oracle 10g forms to tun the report....
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Oracle Forms Builder 10g Questions

Good day everyone,
I want to start off by saying that I'm very new to Oracle Forms Builder (it was dumped on my table about a month ago) and I'm having some issues I need resolved in order to complete a project for a client.
I'm looking mainly for documentation or resources that will show me how to do the following in Oracle Forms Builder 10g:
* Use either the ENTER button or mouse click to navigate between mandatory fields in a form (currently only TAB works)
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* Populate a drop down menu based on a SQL query (ie only show valid options to user)
* Remove static highlighting (fields should only be highlighted if necessary, which is never on this particular form)

I've been able to reduce my problem down to the fact that Oracle Forms Builder 10g is not configured correctly on my machine for my environment. I can seem to get Oracle Forms Builder to see my libraries. When I load the form I'm working on I get the following error:
FRM-18108: Failed to load the following objects.
Source Module:utlf_gui
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I would be surprised if that worked in 8i as posted, although I no longer have 8i to test. You do not tell us the error message you are getting, but there are several things wrong with what you posted.
First, the substitution variable requires only the & at the beginning, you have one on each end of your string, the one at the end will remain in the string that is passed to the database.
Second, you cannot TO_CHAR a string with a date format as you are trying to do. The TO_CHAR function is overloaded and has two basic forms TO_CHAR(date, format_model) and TO_CHAR(number, format_model). Note that neither takes a string. It would appear that at least current versions of Oracle choose the second signature unless specifically passed a date datatype.
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John

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Nivas,
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>>>>>
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