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Tutorial For Oracle10g Forms

This tutorial teaches how to create basic forms and reports in Oracle10g Forms/Reports. It explains what Oracle10g Forms/Reports is, the tools it provides, and how to log in. It then walks through using the Datablock Wizard to create a form based on a Student table, selecting fields, setting layout properties, and viewing the initial form design. The next lesson will cover adding more objects and functionality.

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Tutorial For Oracle10g Forms

This tutorial teaches how to create basic forms and reports in Oracle10g Forms/Reports. It explains what Oracle10g Forms/Reports is, the tools it provides, and how to log in. It then walks through using the Datablock Wizard to create a form based on a Student table, selecting fields, setting layout properties, and viewing the initial form design. The next lesson will cover adding more objects and functionality.

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Tutorial for Oracle10g Forms /

Reports

(Version 3.0)

by: David Zhu (IT Analyst)

Reviewed by: Joe Callaghan

School of Business Administration

Oakland University

Rochester, MI 48309-4401

March. 2006
Prerequisite:

You have an Oracle account on Oracle server and you have Oracle10g
Developer Suite installed and configured to the Oracle10G Server on
your workstation.

You have created a Student table (FTPT_STATUS, MAJOR, SEX,


START_SEM, START_YEAR, STUDNAME) in Oracle database by using
Oracle10g Designer or SQL*Plus.

You have basic PL*SQL knowledge.

Lesson 1

In this lesson you will learn:

What is Oracle10g Forms/Reports

Tools provided by Oracle10g Forms/Reports to create Forms and Reports

How to log on to Oracle10g Forms/Reports

Create your first block and form based on your Student table

What Is Oracle10g Forms/Reports?

Oracle10g Forms/Reports is an Oracle tool that helps you to create web-


enabled forms and reports based on the tables that you have created using
Oracle10g Designer or SQL Plus commands. Starting from Oracle10g, Oracle10g
Forms/Reports has become one of Oracle10g Developer Suite components. You
can use Oracle10g Forms/Reports to:

Design and customize your forms and reports.

Add various functionality, like radio buttons, combo boxes, and list of
values to make your forms and reports more user friendly.

Write triggers on your objects to add functionality to them and capture


errors.

Web enable your Forms or Reports on a development server.


Tools Provided By Oracle10g Forms/Reports

Oracle Oracle10g Forms/Reports provides four tools:

Object Navigator: In this tool you can view all your objects, add new
objects and name/rename your objects.

Layout Editor: This tool helps you design your forms and reports and add
various objects to them like push buttons and list boxes.

PL/SQL Editor: This is the tool that is used to write all the codes for the
triggers, procedures or functions.

Menu Editor: This tool will help you create a customized menu that can
be attached to your form or report.

Logging On to Oracle10g Forms/Reports

1. To log on to Oracle10g Forms/Reports, go to Start Programs


Oracle10g Developer Suite Forms Developer, click Start OC4J
Instance (Very important: You must keep OC4J running while
using Oracle10g Forms/Reports !!!), after OC4J initialized, then
click Forms Builder.

2. Immediately, you will see the window for Forms Builder:


3. Double click Data Blocks, Select 'Use the Datablock Wizard' and click
OK--This is the easiest method to design a new form.

4. You will now see the Welcome to the Datablock Wizard Window. Click
Next to proceed.
5. You will now see the window for the Datablock Wizard. Select Table or
View as in the figure and click Next.
6. You will now see the window that prompts you to select a table or a
view--your form will be created based on this selection. Since no table
or view is being shown, click on browse to look at the list of tables and
views in your database.
7. Once you click browse, the connect window will appear. Type in your
username, password and database to connect to the database.
8. You will now see the tables window. Select current users and tables and
click OK.
9. You will now see the list of tables created in your database. Select
Students and click OK.
10.You will now see your selected table and its available columns on your
screen. Click on the single right arrow to select the first column to be
shown in your form; in this case the STUDID column. You will now see
this column under the database items selected sub-window.

11.To move the rest of the columns, simply click on the double right arrow
and this will select all your columns in to the database items.
12.You will now see the Congratulations window. Make sure that "Create
the data block, then call the Layout Wizard" is selected and click on
Finish.
13.You will now see the Layout Wizard Welcome window, click next. You
will see the following screen, click next.
14. select the items that you would like to show in the form. Make sure that
the data block selected is Students and then click the double right arrow
to move all the columns of the Student block from the available items to
the displayed items. Click on Next to continue.
15.The window with the prompt for the height and width of the items will
appear. Click Next to accept the default values.
15.The Layout Wizard will now prompt you to select the layout or view style
of your block. Select Form and click Next.

16.The Layout Wizard will now prompt you to select a title for the form
that you are creating. Type in Student Records. Click Next to continue.
17.Congratulations! You have now successfully created your first form. Click
Finish to view your form.
18.You will now see the canvas view of the form that you have created. You
can now add various objects like push buttons, combo boxes and radio
buttons to your form to make it more graphical and user friendly. We
will do this in the next lesson.

19.You can now format the form manually. Click on the frame to select it.
Then drag the frame to make it bigger.
20.You can now space out the data fields to make your form more visually
appealing. You can do this by simply selecting the data field and
dragging it to your desired area.
21.After you have formatted all the data fields, your form should look like
the following:
Lesson Summary

In this lesson you have learned:

What is Oracle10g Forms/Reports

Tools provided by Oracle10g Forms/Reports to create Forms and Reports

How to log on to Oracle10g Forms/Reports

To create a data block

To create a basic form based on a table that you had created.

How to view your form in the canvas.

Next, you will learn to add more objects and functionality to your basic
form. For this, proceed to Lesson 2.

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