I have already posted and provided the required PLSQL Library and the Calendar FMX file in my previous blog post Date Picker Calendar For Oracle Forms but some people were still not able to use this utility in their forms, so I thought to provide a d…

Giving date picker calendar option to user for date type fields in Oracle Forms. I am providing you the form (FoxCal.Fmx) and two libraries (General.plx and Calendar.pll). You can download these files by clicking below link: Download Form and require…

Sharing a form to generate Excel file report from SQL query in Oracle Forms. This form can be used in Oracle Forms 6i and 10g / 11g.   Below is the screen shot of this form and could be download from the following link: Excel_Rep.Fmb     A procedure…

I have already posted in my previous post Running Reports Using Run_Product to run reports in Oracle Forms 6i and in this post I am using the same procedure to run report but I am providing a demo form also.   Below is the screen shot of this form an…

Get_File_Name is built-in function of Oracle Forms 6i, used to get the file name with address by browsing the file. You can browse a specific extension name file or with multiple extensions using wild cards.   In this example I am showing three diffe…

Set Icon_File property in When-Mouse-Enter trigger Suppose you are creating icon based menu system in Oracle Forms 6i and you want to change icon when mouse over on any push button. You can accomplish this task by writing form level trigger when-mous…

Center window automatically  in Oracle Forms 6i, use the following procedure by passing window name as parameter:ExamplePROCEDURE auto_centre (pwn in varchar2) ISvw number := get_window_property(forms_mdi_window, width);vh number := get_window_proper…

To download Oracle Forms Developer 6i from Oracle click this link http://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/forms/6i_rel2_xp.zipNote.  You must have Oracle username and password to download any software from Oracle site, if not then sign-up its free.…

You want to connect multiple databases in oracle forms to perform certain tasks, for example you need to execute ddl or dml statements against databases but when you try to use dblink it gives you error or suddenly quits from the oracle forms.  Solut…

Suppose you want to give the data backup option in Oracle Forms application to some client users, where you have installed Oracle 11g client or direct from server.The following procedure executes a batch file placed in current working directory of th…