Location of the procedure/package in the database for forms

Question

Hello,
Does anyone know where the procedure or package in the Database is that controls the parameters in a form?
Thanks,
Lindsay

Answer 1

We are running Portal 3.0.9 and want to customizae the form that Portal gives you
to enter the report parameters. For example, after you register a report with
portal and want to run it, a parameter form comes up with the List Of Values for
that report as wellas the other required parameters for running the report. The
only trouble with the parameter form that they give you is that there is no way to
organizae the ordering of the parameters nor is there any way to present a user
with a better description (even an example of deisred input) of the values they
should enter. We thought that by looking at the procedure that builds this
parameter form, we might find clues to customizing how the parameter form is
presented to the user.
We are thinking that we will need to run all of our reports from a Form developed
in Forms 6i, but since we have 125+ reports that would need to be run from a form,
we want to explore all our options first.
On a side note - does anyone know how you can run reports from forms (developed in
Forms 6i) so that the report will show up in the reports server queue manager (ie
the rw_server_queue table)? We have developed forms which run reports, but it
seems from Oracles's documentation that Forms simply calls the local reports
runtime (possibly rwrun60.exe??) and so the job never makes it to the queue.