Migrating forms3.0 to forms6i

I understand that designer2000 is a CASE Tool. Is it possible to migrate forms from lower version to a higher version if we have not developed the form using designer2000? If Yes, how do we do it? Further, does designer2000 generate fmbs from our design specs in designer?

You can migrate forms (x.fmb) from lower version to higher version. Simple way is opening each form in Forms 6i,compile it and generate it. More information you can find here in technet (Products etc.).
Also you can generate fmbs from Designer. There is compatibility matrix - Designer versions and Developer versions. You can find it on Metalink and maybe here in Technet.

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    <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by cjlack ():
    Hi Thomas
    We've just migrated 700 forms from 3 to 6 for an international insurance company. Oracle have some white papers on 3 to 4.5 and 4.5 to 6 migration. Oracle's own tool doesn't do too much on the 3 to 4.5 migration so you may want to select a third party tool. You should define a GUI style, implement the style in 6 in a reusable way, perform a pilot migration and find solutions to the application and oracle issues that you come across, then do the migration for real. Sorry i can't be more specific than that - we've gained loads of experience from doing it and I if I wrote out everything this would be a very long e-mail! If you like we could either perform the whole migration for you or provide consultancy (for a price of course). The application we've migrated makes use of the three-tier Forms Server architecture and so we would be able to help establish that too, if needed.
    [email protected]
    Technical Consultant, CS Rand
    0044 (0)1865 781 781
    <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
    Hi Chris
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    not yet found any article on technet - still searching.
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    Yes David, It is a lil bit of head ache to convert ur forms 3.0 application to Forms6 manually. There are so many stuffs to take care while converting them to the GUI and web based new application. There are several tools available in the market. One of them is Migration 2000. You can follow this link, download their free evaluation copy and try this.
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    Hi all,
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    Basic migration is simple - open the old form in the new builder.
    I'd recommend you check out the Forms upgrade center on OTN for more information than you'll ever need:
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  • Approach To migrate forms6i to 11g

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