MSS and workflow integration--Adobe forms

Hi ,
Can anyone send me some links on Workflow integrartion with MSS . I am looking out for MSS integration with Adobe forms ..
Regards
Abhilash

Hi Peter
This is probably more of a Forms question than workflow. At a very high level, in Apps, the workflow browser session is actually launched from a Forms session, some kind of socket connection is actually passed to the workflow session, so that when opening the new Form, it is opened in the existing applet.
Cheers
Mark
Hi,
we are building an application with web-enabled Forms 9i and Workflow 2.6.2 on Oracle 9i - and have an integration issue.
We want to include a link to Oracle Forms within a workflow notification so that the user can go directly to a particular screen in our Forms application. Including a URL to our forms application will invoke a new Forms applet on the client, but can we go to a new form in a Forms applet that is already running?
I've seen others ask the question in the forums but haven't seen any definitive responses. Oracle eBusiness Suite seems to have something like this - does anyone know how it was done and is it possible in stand-alone Workflow?
Any info. would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter

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"In adobe form when ever user clicks on submit button, then that form should be attached as an attachment and it should go for manager approval,if manager clicks on the attachment that attachment should open . i dnt know how to approach this situvation,how to trigger this workflow.."
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