Reports 6i - Reports won't stay in foreground.

Question

We are using Oracle Forms and Reports 6i for Win32 and when a user launches a report or while a report is generating for previewing, if they click on the form that called it, the report preview will open in the background hidden behind the Forms application. The Forms application will just sit there and not accept input because, obviously, it is waiting for the report preview window to close.
This is a problem for us because in the environment our users use there is no Windows taskbar and alt-tab is not available. When this happens there is usually nothing the users can do (the calling forms are often modal parameter selection forms and do not allow the Forms app to be minimized). From their perspective when this happens they think the application has "locked up".
Does anyone know of any way to prevent or work around this? Is this more of a Forms Question?
Many thanks!

Answer 1

I have tried "ASYNCHRONOUS" mode and that just makes things worse. In asynchronous mode you actually can return to the calling form and continue doing things in that form, useful if one needed to run a large report in the background while continuing to do other work.
Synchronous is what we need - we don't want the users to be able to do anything else until they dismiss the print preview window. Unfortunately it doesn’t work exactly the way we need it.
Anyway, thanks for the reply.