Oracle Forms Survey

Hi all,
Gerd Volberg did a survey in Germany on Forms earlier this year(http://talk2gerd.blogspot.com/2011/08/result-of-2011-oracle-forms-poll-part-1.html).
Whitehorses.nl has also put one up for everyone(worldwide) to participate: http://blog.whitehorses.nl/oracle-forms-usage-survey/
They will make their results public, so this should be interesting.
So, if you're a forms user or customer, please fill in this survey.
Thanks.
Gert

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Oracle Forms Future

Does anyone know about Oracle Forms Future like is going to stay or go away? I don't see many jobs for Oracle Forms developer.

Per the current INFORMATIONWEEK issue, one survey said:
Pay for application development and programming skills has increased about 4% in the past year--and pay specifically for rapid application development and extreme programming skills has jumped about 9% over the last six months, Foote (president of Foote Partner co.) says.
Also driving up pay for application development is the fact that many companies that sent development work offshore in recent years haven't realized the savings they expected. "Offshoring has gotten a black eye. Half the companies who did it didn't get the numbers they thought," he says.
If considering the RAD, forms/reports is good one. As with CELL chip floods the industry as well as the new optical fiber network, then the forms/report application may run fast if it can survive to that time.

Forms survey

check out this forms survey:
[Oracle Forms Usage Survey|http://blog.whitehorses.nl/oracle-forms-usage-survey/]

Please share the form with me ([email protected]) as a co-author. I will see if I can help.
Instruction on how to share can be found here : http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2462
Gen

SSO to Oracle Forms 6.0 and Oracle Reports 6.0

Hi,
Could somebody please explain how I should implement the SSO so that I can log on a forms application?
Should I use external partner app. ??
How can I parse the right parameters to the forms server ??
thanks,
Jerome

Hi,
Oracle Forms 6i does not support Advances Security for SQL*Net if this is what your question is. ASO is supported with Forms 9i and above
Frank

Calling web service from oracle forms 10g

Problem Description:
I'm following the steps as per the doc:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/htdocs/10gr2/howto/webservicefromforms/ws_10_1_3_from_forms.html
to create a java stub to call external web service and then use java importer in oracle forms to call this web service from oracle forms.
WSDL for external web service used is http://gend:83/DesignService.svc?wsdl
The service was developed by us.
Calling the web service using JDeveloper works fine but when I complie in Oracle Forms it returns wrong number of types of arguments in call SENDHELLO.
The code from oracle form to call web service is as below:
DECLARE
jo ora_java.jobject;
xo ora_java.jobject;
rv varchar2(2000);
ex ora_java.jobject;
str varchar2(100);
BEGIN
jo := GendServiceClient.new;
rv := GendServiceClient.sendHello('Nora');
EXCEPTION
WHEN ORA_JAVA.JAVA_ERROR then
message('Unable to call out to Java, ' ||ORA_JAVA.LAST_ERROR);
WHEN ORA_JAVA.EXCEPTION_THROWN then
ex := ORA_JAVA.LAST_EXCEPTION;
message(Exception_.toString(ex));
END;
Any help/ideas on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Edited by: KE Nora Loera on Jun 1, 2012 1:24 PM

My primary skill is PL/SQL but the only information I found on Oracle's site to call a web service from a 10g Form was creating a jar file and importing the java class. Since I don't want to ask our corporate IT to make changes on the UNIX box for the jar files I went a different route.
I use UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST to call a URL then load I load the data to a table as a CLOB since we have more than 4000 characters. Now I need to parse the XML and load it into a form. I have never done this so if there is a helpful site please let me know. I have looked at several sites but none do what I want.
Thanks

Calling web service from oracle forms fails with ORA_JAVA.JAVA_ERROR

Problem Description:
I'm following the steps as per the doc:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/htdocs/10gr2/howto/webservicefromforms/ws_10_1_3_from_forms.html
to create a java stub to call external web service and then use java importer in oracle forms to call this web service from oracle forms.
WSDL for external web service used is http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConverter.asmx?wsdl
Calling the web service using JDeveloper works fine but from Oracle Forms returns ORA_JAVA.JAVA_ERROR; Unable to call out to Java, Invalid object type for argument 1
The code from oracle form to call web service is as below:
DECLARE
jo ora_java.jobject;
rv ora_java.jobject;
ex ora_java.jobject;
outString varchar2(2000);
BEGIN
jo:= CurrencyConvertorStub.new;
--This will get the exchange rate from US Dollars to UK Sterling.
rv:= CurrencyConvertorStub.ConversionRate(jo,'CAD','USD');
message (float_.floatValue(RV));
EXCEPTION
WHEN ORA_JAVA.JAVA_ERROR then
message('Unable to call out to Java, ' ||ORA_JAVA.LAST_ERROR);
WHEN ORA_JAVA.EXCEPTION_THROWN then
ex := ORA_JAVA.LAST_EXCEPTION;
outString := Exception_.toString(ex);
message(outString);
END;
Any help/ideas on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Yes, it is the message line - so basically this call fails => rv:= CurrencyConvertorStub.ConversionRate(jo,'CAD','USD'); and control goes in the exception block
WHEN ORA_JAVA.JAVA_ERROR then
message('Unable to call out to Java, ' ||ORA_JAVA.LAST_ERROR);
Below is the code from java stub that was generated using JDeveloper by using web services stub/skeleton and associating the WSDL
public Double ConversionRate(String FromCurrency, String ToCurrency) throws Exception
URL endpointURL = new URL(endpoint);
Envelope requestEnv = new Envelope();
Body requestBody = new Body();
Vector requestBodyEntries = new Vector();
String wrappingName = "ConversionRate";
String targetNamespace = "http://www.webserviceX.NET/";
Vector requestData = new Vector();
requestData.add(new Object[] {"FromCurrency", FromCurrency});
requestData.add(new Object[] {"ToCurrency", ToCurrency});
requestBodyEntries.addElement(toElement(wrappingName, targetNamespace, requestData));
requestBody.setBodyEntries(requestBodyEntries);
requestEnv.setBody(requestBody);
Message msg = new Message();
msg.setSOAPTransport(m_httpConnection);
msg.send(endpointURL, "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate", requestEnv);
Envelope responseEnv = msg.receiveEnvelope();
Body responseBody = responseEnv.getBody();
Vector responseData = responseBody.getBodyEntries();
return (Double)fromElement((Element)responseData.elementAt(0), java.lang.Double.class);
}

List Item problem in oracle forms

Hi,
I am using list item in oracle forms 6i and facing one problem. I am populating list using following built-in.
Clear_list()
Create_Group_From_Query( )
Populate_list()
The problem I am facing is when list gets populate it keep the cursor at last element of list with null value. I want cursor to go at first item in the list. Is this thing is possible. The list item I am using is pop-list. In combo its showing list perfectly but I have to use pop-list only. Please help to come out of this problem.
Thanks in advance
Shweta.

Hi Shweta,
Please post your query in Oracle Forms discussion forum.
Thanks,
Wilson.

Oracle Forms Designer has encountered a problem and needs to close

Dear All,
I got the following error when I compile the form,
Oracle Forms Designer has encountered a problem and needs to close
I am using Oracle 10g Developer suite(Forms 32 Bit Version 10.1.2.0.2)
and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0
and Window Xp Professional 32 Bit Operating system
Now I can't do any changes in the form.
I searched lot of oracle forums .but i can't solve it.
Please give me one solution
I am strugling this issue.
Please help me........
a lot of thanks in advance.
Thanks and Regards,
Fazil

Hi,
I am doing the bug fixing in the existing form.Its size is 4.07 MB.when i will get the mentioned error.then i will take previos fmb.then again doing the changes after some time agin will come the mention error.I added some if else condtion code.Its a small code.I think its not a reason for the mentioned error.I think something is happended.I don't know what happened?
Please help me..
Thanks and Regards,
Fazil

Unable to do UPDATE in Oracle Form 10.1.2

Hi,
I am using an LOV to query data from a master-type table.
-- WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED in button Retrieve
declare
l_number number;
a_value_chosen boolean;
begin
a_value_chosen := Show_LOV('LOV_CUSTOMER');
if not a_value_chosen then
message('No value selected');
raise form_trigger_failure;
end if;
end;First, I choose a value from the LOV. The LOV showed the selected items in the Form.
Next, I modified some values (not the Primary Key) in the Form text items.
Finally, I tried to Save the modification into table, using
-- WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED in button Save
commit_form;
clear_form;Surprisely, it showed
FRM-40508: ORACLE error, unable to INSERT record.
BTW,
Previuosly, I can do UPDATE if I use the Enter Query and Execute Query button.
I did not attempt to do inserting, just updating.
Could someone show where is the problem?
Is the form status not changed by the query returned from LOV?
Any help would be grateful.
Many thanks,
Imelda

Hi,
Glad I found all of you in this forum.
Thanks for all of the explanations.
I thought by using LOV would suppress the network traffic.
If the use of LOV would give lots of drawbacks, then I should see the Enter_Query() Execute_Query() instead.
BTW,
I found the button Enter Query and Execute Query on the toolbar.
(Seems that Oracle Form provides lots of help to simplify the programming)
I have some sort of problems in using them :
1. Well, they do the query and retrieve the records for a match query criteria.
But it did not give any specific message if the record does not exist.
The message bar (for unknown reason) is showing
"Enter a query; press CTRL+F11 to execute, F4 to cancel."
Can we change this behaviour?
Perhaps, showing "No record(s) are retrieved for this query. Either change the query criteria; press CTRL+F11 to execute, F4 to cancel."
2. I found the Count Hits from Query menu.
Based on the documentation, the message line will show the records number returned based on query
criteria, without actually retruning the records to the user.
I am not sure whether this function has been removed for the Oracle Developer 10g (10.1.2), since
there is nothing happen, and the message line keep showing
"Enter a query; press CTRL+F11 to execute, F4 to cancel."
Do we tho do some modification to the Forms to use Count Hits?
3. I read on the documentation about Query Where dialog box.
Query Where will be showed if user enter a colon ':' in a field in Enter Query mode for query criteria.
Again, I am not sure whether this function has been removed too.
the message line showed :
FRM-40367: Invalid criteria in field <field_name> in example record.
It happens if the criteria contains # or : or &
Or is it done via another way?
Any help would be grateful.
Many thanks,
Imelda.

Index Usage from SQL query in Oracle Forms

Would using LIKE/OR in where clause (of an indexed column) will force the the query to NOT use INDEX. We have these where clause in Oracle Forms Records Group.
Below are two examples...
1. If we have a where clause with LIKE would that NOT use the index?
Example: ColumnName like :block.Column||%
2. How about having an OR clause?
Example: and (ColumnName = :block.column or :block.column is null)
Thanks

Hi
Answer 1: Where with like clause WOULD use the index.
In this example index on ColumnName
Answer 2: Write better where:
Example: and (:block.column is null or ColumnName = :block.column)
When :block column is null then statement after 'or' is not used. Index will not be used with RBO, i think.
The best way to be sure is to look at explain plan on the original query.
Regards
Kuba

Getting Logged on User'Information in an Oracle-Form SSO Partner Application

Hi.
I could run Flight-of Fancy Application and capture user's information by calling the
"Parse_cookie " Procedure.(use the Scenario 2 - Access the Portal and then the FOF App)
and defined an Oracle-Form application as Partner application like FOF.
I want to have Logged on user'Information in the "Oracle-Form" . But the Fucntion owa_cookie.get dosen't work correctly.please let me know what can I do ?
Thanks in advanced.

Hi.
I could run Flight-of Fancy Application and capture user's information by calling the
"Parse_cookie " Procedure.(use the Scenario 2 - Access the Portal and then the FOF App)
and defined an Oracle-Form application as Partner application like FOF.
I want to have Logged on user'Information in the "Oracle-Form" . But the Fucntion owa_cookie.get dosen't work correctly.please let me know what can I do ?
Thanks in advanced. If you're writing your own partner application, then you are correct to get the user information from the output variables
from the parse_url_cookie procedure. You should then set the information you want to keep track of in the cookie, or combination
of cookie and persistent storage in the database. Take care of the security implications while doing this.
On subsequent calls to your application, the user info should be obtained from the cookie and the database, if you
are using a combination of the cookie and database storage to keep your info.
The owa_cookie.get routine is used to read the cookie, which is generated with owa_cookie.send.
These routines work fine, when invoked correctly.
If you are having trouble with them, you're probably not using the calls properly.
The following code provides an example of how to use the owa_cookie calls...
create or replace package testcookie
is
    procedure show (p_name IN VARCHAR2);
    procedure send
        p_name    IN VARCHAR2,
        p_value   IN VARCHAR2,
        p_path    IN VARCHAR2 default null,
        p_expires IN VARCHAR2 default null
end testcookie;
show error package testcookie
create or replace package body testcookie is
    procedure show (p_name IN VARCHAR2) is
        v_cookie owa_cookie.cookie;
    begin
        v_cookie := owa_cookie.get(upper(p_name));
        htp.htmlopen;
        htp.bodyopen;
        htp.print(v_cookie.vals(1));
        htp.bodyclose;
        htp.htmlclose;
    exception
        when others then
            htp.htmlopen;
            htp.bodyopen;
            htp.print('NO COOKIE FOUND.');
            htp.print(SQLERRM);
            htp.bodyclose;
            htp.htmlclose;
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        p_name    IN VARCHAR2,
        p_value   IN VARCHAR2,
        p_path    IN VARCHAR2 default null,
        p_expires IN VARCHAR2 default null
    is
        v_cookie owa_cookie.cookie;
        l_agent varchar2(30);
        l_expires varchar2(30);
        l_path varchar2(100);
    begin
        if p_expires is null then
            l_expires := null;
        else
           l_expires := to_date(p_expires, 'MMDDYYYY');
        end if;
        if p_path = 'ALL' then
            l_path := '/';
        else
            l_path := null;
        end if;
        owa_util.mime_header('text/html', FALSE);
        l_agent := owa_util.get_owa_service_path;
        l_agent := substr(l_agent, 1, length(l_agent) - 1 ) ;
        owa_cookie.send(
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            value   => p_value,
            expires => l_expires,
            path    => l_path
        owa_util.http_header_close;
        htp.htmlopen;
        htp.headopen;
        htp.headclose;
        htp.bodyopen;
        htp.print ('Cookie set.');
        htp.bodyclose;
        htp.htmlclose;
    end;
end testcookie;
show error package body testcookie;
grant execute on testcookie to public;If you load this into a schema which a DAD can access, then you can invoke the show and send procedures to view and
generate cookies.
To generate a cookie, issue the following from your browser ...
http://server.domain.com/pls/dad/schema.testcookies.send?p_name=test&p_value=hello
To view the cookie:
http://server.domain.com/pls/dad/schema.testcookies.show?p_name=test

Oracle forms 6.0 Image storing and retrieval

Hello to all,
Iam new to oracle forms, Iam using oracle forms 6.0, i was trying to insert the image into database using blob datatype.. i was continuously getting lot of error...
Can any one give a sample application for inserting and retrieving the images. If it is a .fmb (form), i would be very thankfull to you.....'

Mr. manvar khan, can u plz send me this fmb file for inserting and retrieving images in forms 6.0, i would be very grateful to you.
[email protected]

Oracle form 6.0, how to do 3D chart, calender,mouser over changing....

oracle form 6.0, how to do 3D chart, calender,mouser over changing....in we form, like microsoft style.
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The cpu resources are only limited once the cpu's are 100% utilized. It is highly unlikely that dom0 will try to use 100% of a cpu, let alone all cpus. Only when there are no idle physical cpus would you run into issues.
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Oracle reports 6i to Oracle forms 10g migration

Hi,
I have .rdf files which were created on Oracle Reports 6i. I would like to migrate the .rdf files into Oracle Reports module which is present as a part of Oracle Forms 10g to generate PDF output.
Please let me know the detailed steps to be followed as I am a total newbie. Also I need to generate these reports on demand from a java 5 application (JSF 2.0).
Currently for ORacle reports 6i, I have the following code in my java application
rwrun60.exe g:\tomcat33\webapps\reports\web-inf\src\null userid=***/*** destype=FILE desformat="pdf" paramform=NO printjob=NO batch=YES desname=temp.pdf
1. What would be the equivalent for reports in ORacle Forms 10g ? I know there is an Oracle Apps server where ther report services reside. How to I invoke my report from my java application (residing on a weblogic server 10.3.6)?
2. What ould I do with the 6i .rdf files to upgrade them to 10g ?

I am trying to call an Oracle report i.e .rdf (which is located on the Oracle App Server) from my java EE 5 (JSF) application. The Oracle App server is Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2. I assume Oracle report generation capability is available in this release. I need to invoke the report from my Java JSF application on demand (whenever the user clicks a button on the web browser page, the report should appear on the browser as PDF) . My java application resides on Linux weblogic server.
Please let me know how it can be done ? I see rwclient.sh and another method to directly invoke using a URL. How do I do it on java, would a request.redirect() to the URL work ?
Also for hiding the params in the URL. keys need to be configured on the Oracle server right ?
Also if we use rwclient.sh or the URL based invocation, would there be any issue in concurrency when multiple users request the same report at the same time ?

Oracle Forms 6 to Latest version

Hi all, now am I in deep water. I'm totally newbie on Oracle Forms.
We still have Oracle forms 6, and we use it for a old Tuxedo service repository.
I guess that we are not the first to upgrade to something newer, so I hope there is someone out here who can
help me with links or some other info where to start looking.
Anyone?
Thanks in advance

Yes, the number of people still using forms 6 have become smaller now. There was a major release of 10g after that, and last summer, FMW 11g came out which offers the latest version for forms too.
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