PDF save to BLOB
Hello All,
we are using forms 10g, and there is a form in which a PDF report is created and mailed to the client. The requirement is while sending it as mail we need to save the PDF to the database, so we are uploading the file from the application server into the database server. The question is which mechanism can be used for that? is it webutil? if so it has a lot of configuration on application server side, so is there any faster way for that.
Thanks in advance,
If you were to install OAS10g, you could run your forms from there, and also make use of WebDAV. Oracle's WebDAV simply maps a file directory to the database: copy a file into a WebDAV directory, and the file is actually stored in the OAS Metadata Repository. Furthermore, you can set permissions on the WebDAV directories for users/groups.
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Subject: PDF saves as content of last file sent
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