Howto quote percent (%) in formsweb.cfg/HTMLbeforeForm

Question

Hello,
I would like to embed an iframe in basejini.htm/basejpi.htm. Doing this by setting
HTMLbeforeForm=<iframe src="frame.html" name="frame" width="100%"></iframe>
works almost perfectly, but "width=100%" doesn't work, since any occurrences of "%" are substituted when delivering basejini.htm/basejpi.htm to the browser.
I tried a lot to escape the %, doubling it and quoting it with ' an " - nothing works.
Is there any way to escape the % so that the resulting iframe is sized relative to the width of the parent window?

Answer 1

Jesper,
all parameters that are understood by the formsweb.cfg file are listed un the System and user section. In Oracle10g Forms we also added comments to describe their individual meanings.
1. create a named configuration for your application and add
# assuming orcl is your database tnsnames name)
userid=@orcl
2. In your Forms application, using an on-logon trigger
BEGIN
LOGON_SCREEN;
message(get_application_property(username||'@'||get_application_property(connect_string));
LOGON(get_application_property(username ||'@'||get_application_property(connect_string),get_application_property(password),true);
END;
If you want to also specify teh username so that he only needs to enter the password, you can pass userid=scott@orcl in the URL
Note that Oracle9iDS had a bug on Windows2000 that prevented the servlet from reading URL parameters. This problem is solved within Patch1.
Frank