Problem in running forms 10g of 5 different departments

Question

Hi All,
My company has 5 departments, and each department has its own database.
Each department has some forms in them and has a top level form which calls another from from it, and some forms even calls reports when a button is pressed.
The thing is, all the department's forms have same naming convention.
Ex:
top level from in department1 is form1.fmb,
top level from in department2 is form1.fmb,
top level from in department3 is form1.fmb,
top level from in department4 is form1.fmb,
top level from in department5 is form1.fmb.
Not just top level form, but also few more forms have same names in the other departments.
And, a from in department1 doesnt not call any form or report from the other department.
The logic in those forms is different. Just the naming convention is same.
My company has only 1 application server installed. And I want to deploy all the departments forms which has different databases.
So, I configured the formsweb.cfg as
# System parameter: file setting environment variables for the Forms runtime processes
[department1]
envFile=department1.env
# System parameter: file setting environment variables for the Forms runtime processes
[department2]
envFile=department2.env
and in department1.env file I will point FORMS_PATH to the folder that contains fmb, fmx files of department1.
So, after deploying on the Application Server, end user/client can call the form like
http://server_name.com:7777/forms/frmservlet?config=department1&form=form1.fmx
Now, the problem is that department1 is not working. I tried to shuffle the order of departments in the formsweb.cfg file and found that, it always picking only the last department listed in the formsweb.cfg file. If I have 2 departments listed in the formsweb.cfg file like above, it picks only department2 form only when I call the department2 url at the client end. When I call department1's form, it is not picking anything and showing me a blank page.
Help me..

Answer 1

I just tested this in 10.1.2.3 and it works correctly. I did the following:
[a]
envFile=a.env
envFile=b.env
[c]
envFile=c.envIn each case above, the env files contain unique FORMS_PATH entries and in those path are unique forms (fmx).
So, you like have one or more of the following going on:
1.  A case sensitivity issue
2.  You have a config section title without a closing bracket.  In other words rather than doing this:  [dept1], you accidentally did this somewhere:  [dept1
3.  You have made the changes manually, but did not stop the EM process before doing so.  In this case, you should stop all EM and middle tier processes and restart.  If using v11, stop and restart WLS_FORMS
4.  You are running an unpatched version of either 10.1.2 or 11.1.1 and there was a defect which has since been corrected.  Be sure you are running the latest patched release.