Post-Form trigger in Oracle Forms fires during the Leave the Form process, when a form is exited.   You can use Post-Form trigger for the tasks such as: To clean up the form before exiting. For example, use a Post-Form trigger to erase any global var…

Pre-Form trigger in Oracle Forms fires during the form start-up, before forms navigates to the first navigable data block of that form. Use a Pre-Form trigger to perform the tasks such as maximize the forms_mdi_window, initialize some Global variable…

I wrote this trigger around 4 years ago to handle errors in an application based on Oracle Forms 6i. This trigger handles all errors with some custom messages for some specific errors and not only this after giving an appropriate message to the user…

Suppose you want to handle an error in oracle forms and want to display custom error message for that error, but also you want to customize more for a particular error. For example there are many fields in form with required property is set to TRUE f…

Oracle Forms is having its default records filter, which we can use through Enter Query mode to specify some search criteria or to filter records before display, but you can also create your own filter, which can be more user friendly and easy to use…

I have written many posts related to triggers in Oracle Forms, I have given examples for Form Level triggers, Data Block Level triggers and Item Level Triggers. And in this tutorial I am just giving the simple tutorial to how to create a trigger in O…

Sharing an Oracle Form Htoolbar.fmb for Oracle Forms 10g/11g containing Horizontal Toolbar canvas and a control block with basic navigational and operational buttons, which can be customized easily as per your form's requirement.   Just change the da…

When a query is open in the block, the Post-Query trigger fires each time Form Builder fetches a record into a block. The trigger fires once for each record placed on the block's list of records. Usage NotesUse a Post-Query trigger to perform the fol…

The following example finds the commission plan in the COMMPLAN table, based on the current value of the commcode item in the EMPLOYEE block in the form, to verify that the code is valid.If the code in the COMMPLAN table is located, the description o…

Log user's login and logout details in to table through Oracle Forms using POST-LOGON and PRE-LOGOUT triggers to track the user's login and logout activity for auditing purposes.   In this example one table and a sequence object is used to log the da…

Pre-Query trigger in Oracle D2k / Oracle Forms DescriptionFires during Execute Query or Count Query processing, just before Form Builder constructs and issuesthe SELECT statement to identify rows that match the query criteria.Definition Level form or…

Example is given below to validate a Text Item in Oracle Forms with specific rules condition which can be define at run time with the use of T-List item and When-Validate-Item trigger.   Below is the screen shot of this example form which can be down…

Refresh / Updating a form screen in Oracle D2k Forms 6i ProblemYou want to show number of records processed progress or a progress bar on form through a procedure. SolutionDeclare  nTotalRec Number := 10000;  nCurrRec Number := 1;Begin   For i in 1..…

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…

Introduction ------------ This document lists the order in which triggers fire in Oracle Forms 4.5: o  The first column, Action, describes the function to be performed     (e.g. deleting a record). o  The second column, Trigger Firing Order, describe…

See also: Why And When To Use Pre-Update and Pre-Insert Triggers In Oracle FormsPre-Update Fires during the Post and CommitTransactions process, before a row is updated in Oracle Forms. It fires once for each record that is marked for update.The foll…

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…

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…

SYSTEM.CURSOR_BLOCK Determining current block in Oracle Forms Using SYSTEM.CURSOR_BLOCK system variable. The value that the SYSTEM.CURSOR_BLOCK system variable represents depends on the current navigation unit:If the current navigation unit is the bl…

Suppose you want to populate a non-database data block with records manually in Oracle forms. This task can be done using a cursor.   Below is the example given for hr.job_history table, where user input the employee id in upper block and click on th…

The example given below for writing text file or CSV using Text_IO package from a tabular block in Oracle Forms.   Suppose there is a tabular grid data block "Job_History" in your forms and you want to write a CSV on click of a button by reading…

Example is given for Pre-Query and Post-Query triggers in Oracle Forms, with using Display_Itembuilt-in in Post-Query triggers to highlight fields dynamically.   This is the screen shot below for this example:   You can also download this form from t…

Suppose you want to check the user permissions on inserting or updating the records in Oracle Forms, then you can use Pre-Insert and Pre-Update triggers for that particular data block to check whether user is having proper permission or not.   The ex…

Example is given below to fetch any Oracle objects DDL script using DBMS_Metadata.Get_DDL command in Oracle Forms using Forms_DDL command.   You can download this form for free including source code with following link from Google Drive Dbms_Utility.…

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…

Suppose you have two T-List items in form and you want  to shift element values from one list to another in Oracle Forms, here is the example given below for the same. Create two buttons also between list items as shown in picture in the bottom of th…

Highlight a Text Item in Oracle Forms With Visual Attribute It is very necessary to highlight the current cursor text item in data entry forms so that a user can easily notice the current item. Steps to highlight current item 1.   Create a visual att…

Suppose you want to change multiple images after a specified time in home screen of your oracle forms application. Follow these simple steps to create image presentation with create_timer: (1) Place an image item on canvas and set the appropriate siz…

I have written many posts previously on Timers in Oracle Forms like how to change images randomly with timers and how to display a clock using timer, but in this post I am simply describing to how to create a timer, stop a timer, re-start a timer and…

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…