Suppressing parameter form when calling report (Designer 6i R4.11)

I use an action item on a Forms module to call a Reports module. This Report has one argument, and its value is provided by the Forms module. When I run the Form and press the button (= action item), the Reports parameter Form appears. How can I suppress the parameter Form since the value is provided by the Form?
Setting the display property of the argument to 'No' doesn't work.

Hi Harm,
There is one parameter called 'PARAMFORM', this is text parameter saying report
whether it has to show the Parameter form or not.
If we set this to 'NO' when calling report,i t won't show the Parameter Form.
Another way is...
Open the report and delete all the items from the Parameter form layout.
Pass all the parameters from the form. Now it wont show the parameter form.
Think it will help you.
Thanks.
Siva.

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Suppressing parameter form when calling report

I use an action button on a Forms module to call a Reports module. This Report has one argument, and the value is provided by the module. When I run the Form and press the button, the parameter form of Reports appears. How can I suppress the parameter Form since the value is provided by the Form?
Set the display property of the parameter to 'No' doesn't work.
I use Designer 6i R4.11

I don't know how to set this in Designer, but to your action button you have to add this:
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plid - parameter list

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Actually if you are on the Web then you don't have much control over the format the parameter form is in, so specifying it as HTML doesn't help.
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Dear Oracle Users' Group:
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FROM MYDATABASE.MYTABLE A
WHERE
A.FIELD1 = :P_1";
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and generates the report based on the runtime
parameter. Works perfect on Oracle8i database's
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====================
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under "Web Setting" heading.
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Hi, Kimmy
Try: &paramform=yes]http://webserver.com:80/dev60cgi/rwcgi60.exe?server=repserver&report=rep1&userid=scott/tiger@orcl&destype=cache&desformat=htmlcss&paramform=yes
I've also sent you an email about key maps.
Enjoy! Web Reporting is a great feature.
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If this is a 'paper' report then =yes has always worked for me as long you have parameters declared in the report.
Description Use PARAMFORM to specify whether to display the Runtime Parameter
Form when you execute a report through CGI or a servlet. PARAMFORM is used only to
supply parameters to paper layout reports, not JSP-based Web reports.
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Values
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■ NO Do not display the Parameter Form.
■ HTML Display the Parameter Form in HTML format.
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