SEND KEYS USING VBA EXCEL TO ORACLE FORMS

Question

Hello everyone im pretty much a noob to oracle forms. the company i work for just acquire the a new financial system which runs on "oracle developer forms runtime" Im trying to figuere out if there is a way to use vba to send keys to the forms... I know I can upload to the tables and make it appear on the forms but im trying to see if i can do it another way. I have downloaded the webutil I dont have server access but i do have access to the forms as a end user. Anywho is this possible? any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You could download a dataloader. Just google it.
If you don't want to use dataloader, yes, you can build and excel marco. you would have to use AppActivate "X" where X is the name of the Oracle instance (ie. that you see at the top left of the Oracle apps). You would also need to use sendkeys function. Use AppActivate, build 2 nested loops (outter for rows, inner for columns), select the value from the cell the uses sendkeys to send the value to the active app:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa202943(v=office.10).aspx
You also need to use some sort of sleep function because excel will process the rows faster than Oracle.
Should look something like:
AppActivate "Oracle Applications"
Do While M<100
Do While N < 100
SendKeys ActiveSheet.Cells(N, M).value
loop
loop