WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT parameters trouble

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to run a report from a form by a submit button in the form. It does work, I mean, I can see the report after pressing the button, but it works as if there was no parameter, it ignores it completely. I don't really know how to use the RUN_REPORT_OBJECT and the WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT. My parameter P_SOC is a number and I'm using 10g for the DB and also for forms and reports. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!
DECLARE
LIS_PARAM PARAMLIST;
NOM_PARAM VARCHAR2(13):= 'P_SOC';
repid REPORT_OBJECT;
v_rep VARCHAR2(100);
BEGIN
     LIS_PARAM:= GET_PARAMETER_LIST(NOM_PARAM);
     IF ID_NULL(LIS_PARAM) THEN
          LIS_PARAM := CREATE_PARAMETER_LIST(NOM_PARAM);
     ELSE
          DELETE_PARAMETER(LIS_PARAM,'P_SOC');
     END IF;
     ADD_PARAMETER(LIS_PARAM,'P_SOCIEDAD',TEXT_PARAMETER,:SOC.IDSOC);
     repid := FIND_REPORT_OBJECT('CT');
     SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid,REPORT_OTHER,'P_SOC=:PARAMETER.P_SOC');
     SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid,REPORT_EXECUTION_MODE,BATCH);
     SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid,REPORT_COMM_MODE,SYNCHRONOUS);
     SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid,REPORT_DESTYPE,CACHE);
     SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid,REPORT_DESFORMAT,'html');
     SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid,REPORT_SERVER,'rep_nan');
     v_rep := RUN_REPORT_OBJECT(repid,LIS_PARAM);
     WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT('http://nan:8889/reports/rwservlet/getjobid'|| substr(v_rep,instr(v_rep,'_',-1)+1)||'?'||'server=rep_nan','_blank');
END;

Hi,
You can use RUN_REPORT_OBJECT or WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT.
Run reportobject is basically similar to run_product in the old version of forms and requires that the reports file is listed within the form (under reports).
Web.show_document is different. With this you can just take the URL and run the report outside your application (should you wish). This does require an entry into the cgicmd.dat file on the app server (under reports/conf).
Check out the help in Forms for details of these commands.
HTHs
L :-)

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