WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT documentation

Does anybody know where I may be able to find a good document on WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT? Is WEB a package and if so, does it have more functionality than SHOW_DOCUMENT?
Thanks a lot,
Thomas

Hello Thomas,
Check this out:http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/frmwebshowdoc_rep.pdf
Cheers,
Suresh

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Web.show_document working with abnormal parameter

I was opening some web pages from forms 10g using:
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in a button pressed trigger. That worked fine, except it continually opened new pages. If the button is pressed 10 time, 10 pages opened one after another. I was giving warning to the user about this quirk.
Then while debugging I happened to edit the code and change it to:
web.show_document(url, '_blank;');
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Does anyone know if this is safe to do?

Hi,
You can use below different parameters depends on your requirements. To view documentation press ctrl+h in forms builder, use search feature to locate the topic.
'_self' Causes the document to load into the same frame or window as the source document.
'_parent' Causes the target document to load into the parent window or frameset containing the hypertext reference. If the reference is in a window or top-level frame, it is equivalent to the target _self.
'_top' Causes the document to load into the window containing the hypertext link, replacing any frames currently displayed in the window.
'_blank' (default) Causes the document to load into a new, unnamed top-level window. Note that these targets are lowercase and enclosed in single quotation marks.
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I am using the web.show_document for running my report - using distribution xml file and mail.
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Dear Mr. hisham,
Thanks For your Post,
Actually i have the same issue, but it want to kill a running report in the report server by clicking such a button that have already the jobID.
whithout opening the reportserver page so that no body see any other reports running.
like in this example:
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L_URL Varchar2(1000);
Begin
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IE Security Setting for web.show_document

Hi,
I've run a report on the report server and generated it as a pdf, now I want to open the PDF using web.show_document.
As it starts to open I get an error message saying that the security settings of IE are preventing the opening of the file.
I've not seen this before over a number of different installations. I've disabled the pop-up blocker for this site.
After searching I've not found anything here.
Is there any documentation on what to set the security configuration to?
IAS v 10gR2
IE v 6.0
many thanks
Tony

Make sure that the URL you are opening, the OAS host server domain name in this case, is within the trusted sites of the browser.
It happened with us when opening our application online from the internet.
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James,
This whole applet embedded in a browser model for webforms is driving us batty at times. The list of problems includes:
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Sure hobbling the browser by opening with limited functionality is a possibility but not a complete solution.
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4) General fragility of the whole architecture. Running a client JVM in a web browser on top of a PC Operating system connectiong to a forms server over a network embedded in a Java Container server on a full blown web server running on a unix operating system is pushing the bubble. Throw in the mix that any of these components can be combined in numerous ways makes one wonder how it works as well as it does.
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Web.show_document cannot display file with Chinese char in IIS 6

Dear all,
There is a problem that web.show_document cannot display file with Chinese char in IIS 6, but works fine in IIS 5.
Is it a server problem or is there any setting in server? Do you know how to solve it?
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JY

Hi,
As Francois mentioned, this issue has nothing to do with forms / web.show_document. web.show_document, just opens the URL specified as parameter. So, if you run the URL (that you've passed as argument for web.show_document), directly in the browser, you would be getting the same issue.
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-Arun

Running Reports with WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT versus RUN_REPORT_OBJECT

Where I work I work alone on developing and delivering Oracle applications. I've found a way of running reports in 10g over the web using WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT, I've embedded my own security in the BEFORE PARAMETER FORM trigger of the reports.
I don't have time to trawl through thousands of pages of documentation and I need to know whether there is a fundamental drawback of using WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT over RUN_REPORT_OBJECT? I've got everything working OK in my test environment, but it's not clear reading the Oracle documentation whether there is a major drawback with this method, in particular I'm interested in any performance/load issues. I'm slightly worried because most people seem to use RUN_REPORT_OBJECT (which has all sorts of issues, such as parameter form incompatibility etc), I've found that WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT is much easier to implement as it avoid the parameter form issue, displaying the user credentials in the source html and being able to type in any jobid in a url to receive other peoples reports.
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Good call .... I included some of the code from your linked document to create a forms library from which to run reports. This uses the inate ability of reports to generate HTML parameter forms at runtime. Very handy. Most of our reports that we upgaded recently took little or no effort.
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Web.show_document gives FRM-92020 error unknown protocol

Hi I am hoping someone can help.
I am using web.show_document in forms 10g and get an FRM-92020 unknown protocol error. The URL I am passing starts fddl:// this is a legitimate call to an Electronic Document management system image search engine. The URL works 100% outside of Forms, i.e cut and paste into an internet Explorer address bar. The problem is with web.show_document parsing for 'known' protocols.
Is there any way I can stop this validation from taking place. Incidentally I can HOST out and call iexplore with the URL and again that works (client Server), however we do not have webutil installed for me to do the webutil equivalent in our live environment!
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Trev.

Hi Francois,
thanks for replying.
Yes I am using '_blank' as the second parameter.
The URL I am passing is dynamically genreated and held in a variable. My call is:
web.show_document(l_url,'_blank');
the url evaluates to something like below:
l_url := 'fddl://fmhsqlserv/filedirector/...........................'
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Hide address bar w/WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT

I am currently using WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT to run Reports with
Developer Server. It is outputing as a PDF in IE5. It works
great. But I have a security concern. The report has to know
who the current user is to properly fill in some parameters. I
use the GET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY in Forms to get the USERID and
PASSWORD. These get passed to the browser as part of the
visible URL when the report is output as a PDF in the browser.
I would like to hide the browsers address bar for these reports.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks for any suggestions in advance!
null

I can actually answer that! I had the same problem initially.
I spent a whole day searching both Microsoft and Adobe
documentation
and websites. I finally found the answer buried in Acrobat
Reader's
documentation.
In your Adobe folder(I don't remember exactly where) you will
find
a file called Nppdf32.dll.
Simply copy it to C:\program files\internet explorer\plugins
You should now be able to view pdf files in IE5.
FYI - Acrobat Reader 4 appears to have some sort of bug in it.
Once it is installed it will mess up IE5's ability to download by
clicking on a download link.
When you click on a link for a download it tries to start Acrobat
Reader 4 and then the download just fails.
You can work around this by right-clicking
on the link and selecting save as. But if it is a button that
you
click on to initiate a download you can't do that.
I have not been able to undo this so if you can I would recommend
using Acrobat Reader 3
nirali (guest) wrote:
: Hi!
: I dont have answer for your ???
: But I have one ??? for you if dont mind.
: I could not get PDF output in IE5. Please let me know
: what preferences I have to change on IE5 to get PDF output.
: Thank You
: Nirali
: Dennis Lunt (guest) wrote:
: : I am currently using WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT to run Reports with
: : Developer Server. It is outputing as a PDF in IE5. It
works
: : great. But I have a security concern. The report has to
know
: : who the current user is to properly fill in some
parameters. I
: : use the GET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY in Forms to get the USERID
and
: : PASSWORD. These get passed to the browser as part of the
: : visible URL when the report is output as a PDF in the
browser.
: : I would like to hide the browsers address bar for these
: reports.
: : Is there a way to do this?
: : Thanks for any suggestions in advance!
null

Question about web.show_document

Hi,
I am using form 10g and I want to call the function web.show_document to show
a web page called test.html.
Where the html should be placed so that calling
Web.Show_Document('test.html','_self') will show the content ?
Thanks.
Ivan

This question really has little to do with Forms. This is really a question related to using a web server.
The html file needs to be located in a physical directory that corresponds to a virtual path which is defined within the HTTP Server. You can create your own or use an existing one. Refer to the HTTP Server (or Apache) documentation. Specifically look for references to using "mod_alias":
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_alias.html#alias
Here is an example assuming you are using Forms 10.1.2:
1. Copy the html file to this directory: %ORACLE_HOME%\forms\java
2. The URL you would use to access the file would look something like this (replace the server, port, and file name with your own):
http://server:port/forms/java/test.html
The WEB.SHOW call would look something like this:
WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT ('http://server:port/forms/java/test.html');

Calling Reports from Forms (run_report_object and then Web.Show_document)

Hi all,
we are in the process to prepare a Forms-Migration from 6i to 10g and like probably most of the other Forms-Customers we also use Reports.
We have setup a test-scenario with Forms/Reports Standalone Installation. So we have some Forms running and we are now starting to test reports.
I have created a Test-Form to call run_report_object in the documented way. That means described in the white paper. set the parameters, then call the run_report_object BUILTIN and when the job is finished, I do a call to the Web.Show_Document BUILTIN with "getjobid". As destype I use "CACHE"
So far so good, that works like a charm.
But after seeing the output in the browser, I can use the URL as a template and only change the jobid and then I can see all other reports as well, whether the output is from me or not. Even worse if I change the URL to use the command "showjobs" I can see a nice list with all the output and can click and see all of them.
Is there a way to secure this in an easy way.
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Because we use the Forms/Reports Standalone Installation (because of License-Costs, ...) Single-Sign_on is no option for us we only want a situation where we can do the same as before.
Run a report, see the output and nobody else can see it.
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Thanks,
Mark

thanks for the answers,
but I'm still thinking that there is no "easy" Migration-Solution for our request.
Running a report and after doing whatever needs to be done (read, print, ...) and don't care about additional security because nobody else can read it.
But that might be the price for the bunch of new features in the "Web"-World were you never know where your application runs and you have to secure a lot more stuff then before.
Anyway I think we proceed with a combination out of the adviced Metalink Note : 437246.1. We can set the expiration-parameter, we cannot set diagnostic=NO because we use Run_Report_Object but we can change httpd.conf and we reject all calls to showmap, showjopbs, etc.
I'm not sure whether we need the rewrite part, but we'll see.
Thanks,
Mark

Web.show_document-i dont want to open report in browser just save in folder

Hi all,
I m using the following code for pdf file generation using a loop. The problem is every report is open in browser and then save a pdf file in a specific folder. I want that report is not open into browser just save pdf files in a specific folder. Any body knows how i do this. I am using 10g developer 9.0.4.
DECLARE
     v_SAM_CUST_ID     NUMBER(22);
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     FROM SAM ,DE_ADDR
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BEGIN
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END;


This configuration file is present in the /reports/conf/ directory.
It contains a few examples, very usefull if you want to hide some informaztion, like the connection string for instance.
you can call it by setting the entry name in the url:
http://machine.fr:7778/reports/rwservlet?my_entry&report=report.rdf&destype=...
Francois

To access pdf files from application server using web.show_document

Hello!
If my pdf file is copied in Oracle_home/forms90/java directory.Then using web.show_document i can access the pdf file.But I can't copy all the pdf files in /forms90/java directory.We have lacs of pdf files which I want to keep in my own directory.But my requirement is if my pdf file is in /home2/docs directory in (Linux application server) ie in my own directory where I store all the pdf files.Then web.show_document does not open the pdf file.It says page cannot be displayed.For that I think we have to configure the directory /home2/docs directory as a webserver.From otn I got something like forms90.conf file in application server where we have to set virtual directory mapping etc.If the pdf is in local machine then in orion-web.xml file we have to mention real path and save the file and shutdown oc4j instance and restart it again.I tried it.But it is not working.Can u give me step by step instructions to solve this problem.I found a few links in discussion forum.But is doesn't work out.My pdf file is in /home2/docs directory in Linux application server.Please treat it as urgent.
Regards
Jayashree

Hi Sandeepmsandy,
There is no available code sample for this scenario. You may write your own.
Step 1: Get pdf URL from sqlite database. Please refer to the following MSDN blog and see a code sample.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertgreen/archive/2012/11/13/using-sqlite-in-windows-store-apps.aspx. Note, you need to retarget the project to 8.1 and then get two sqlite packages from NuGet before building this sample.
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HttpWebRequest can help download small pdf files. For more information to see
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/de96a61c-e089-4595-8349-612be5d23ee6/download-file-with-httpwebrequest?forum=winappswithcsharp. It’s easy for use, but if you want to download the larger or many files, it’s recommend to use
BackgroundTransfer namespace. The classes in this namespace provide a power way to transfer files in the background. See a code sample from MSND.
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Background-Transfer-Sample-d7833f61.
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Closing the browser windows created by web.show_document and javascript

From Forms I am issuing a http request using web.show_document and javascript:window.open(). The http request makes a remote procedure call to a coldfusion component on a JRun appserver. I want this rpc to fire in the background so that the current forms browser window remains as is.
The logic is as follows
l_rpcURL := 'http://....just a standard URL.....'; -- edited for this thread
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WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT (l_jsURL,'_blank');
The http request works fine but leaves a browser window behind. It's the one created by the javascript.window.open(). If I remove the self.close() from the javascript then I have two browser windows open, one from web.show_document and the other, as described previously, from the window.open().
Any idea how I can force closure of the window opened by the window.open() ?
Thanks

Hi,
did this occured afer installing service pack 2?
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<html>
<body onload="closeit()">
<script>
window.close();
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</body>
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