In the course of adapting our reports and submission forms to 10g, some of our users asked for a specific request. In version 6 of our application, users can either request a screen preview or print directly to the local printer.
In 10g, the local feature is lost because the processing is now done in the [...]
Here we are at the end of the second week in the migration of a mission-critical Oracle Forms 6 application. The main points we dealt with are:
AIX file transfert and compile processes
LOV visual appearance (differences between 6 and 10g)
Report rdf structure search in a batch mode from a keyword-based file
One of our developers raised the question about finding specific strings within our Reports. For example, we might have to check whether a query has schema name used in building up the query. That can be a problem if we need to move the tables to another container (this will break the query since the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Now that all the developers workstations are setup, we have started putting MouliForms through its paces.
We already started seeing some unexpected results. First, some items do have their prompts in non-standard fonts such as Arial Narrow. In this case, I added some search and replace rules for font name and size. Whenever one is found [...]
Here is the MouliForms-Oracle Forms 6-10g presentation related to the steps that will be followed when doing the migration from Oracle Forms 6i to 10g.
I also included some screenshots from MouliForms. There are also three flash presentations (made with Wink) that also show the interface, conversion steps and webutil module adaptation using MouliForms. These [...]
We are finally starting the migration of our main application (around 1200 modules) this July 14. Our main tool is MouliForms which I presented in an earlier post.
I spent the last couple of days ironing out the interface as well as fixing the developers machines (setting up the JRE, classpath, forms_path).
Preliminary tests on some modules [...]
Enterprise IT Tools and Thoughts, dealing mainly with Oracle Developer tools (Forms & Reports)
By Hafed Benteftifa
