Passing values between forms! Help please!!!!

Question

I'm stuck. I don't know how to pass a value from one form to the other, and automate a task. For example, I created form1 and from that form1 I want to pass a value to form2...then I want in form2 to query the form2 so it will bring up the complete record of the new value.
I thought if i used javascript code below it would work but I kept getting that some variable were undifined
Form_name.Name_of_input_box.value
that would give me the value of the inputbox. But when i tried doing this...my Form_name was undefined? How do i get the actual name of the form?(i looked that source code when the form was generated but the form name it provides is incorrect or im reading it wrong)
Please any help or comments are greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I worked out an example for you:
Form1 is a form on scott.dept
Form2 is a form on scott.emp
When you enter a value for deptno and click on next, it brings up Form2 with the values.
Follow these steps:
1. Create a new button in Form1. Call it NEXT.
2. Select 'Custom' for the PL/SQL button event handler and enter this code:
declare
l_deptno number;
l_url varchar2(2000);
begin
l_deptno := p_session.get_value_as_number(p_block_name=>'DEFAULT', p_attribute_name => 'A_DEPTNO');
l_url := '<portal_schema>.wwa_app_module.link?p_arg_names=_moduleid&p_arg_values=<module_id of form2>&p_arg_names=deptno&p_arg_values='||l_deptno||'&p_arg_names=_deptno_cond&p_arg_values='||<portal_schema>.wwv_standard_util.url_encode('=');
<portal_schema>.wwa_app_module.set_target(l_url, 'CALL');
end;
Thats it!!
Run the form, enter some value for deptno and click "next".
You'll see the first employee in the dept 10 in Form2