Archive for the ‘Oracle Forms & Reports 10g’ Category

FireFox, IE crash with Forms 10g, Replace Jinitiator with JRE

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Oracle Jinitiator is no longer compatible with oracle forms services. By default, Oracle Forms services 10g uses Jinitiator 1.3.1.22 to run Forms applications. Jinitiator was compatible with Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox version 2.0. (more…)

Key Mapping in Oracle Forms 10g and Forms 11g

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Key mapping or key binding defines how an application should respond when mapped key is typed. Usually application executes some function in repose. For example in Forms 6i, when user types F9, List of value is displayed to the user. It means that key F9 is mapped to function “List of Values”. (more…)

Hide username and password while calling oracle Reports

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

If you have not configured reports with Oracle Single Sign-on, Oracle report server explicitly requires username and password when report is called using Web.Show_document(). Username and password is required in report calling URL, for example following method calls a reports using Web.Show_Documnet(). (more…)