Oracle Froms, Global Variables and Oracle Reports

Hi all,
We are developing a form that will call an Oracle report and we would like to test the value of a global variable that was set in the Oracle Forms in the "Before Parameter Form" in the Oracle report trigger. Can this be done?
Thanks, Larry

The "global" var. is global to either a report or a form, not both. You may pass them from one to the other but that's not the session-global thing.
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>
well old way of development (Forms & Reports) will be obsolete in Oracle Fusion Middleware vs Oracle EBS
>
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>
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