© 2007 by prentice hall8-1 introduction to oracle 10g chapter 8 understanding and using forms...

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Introduction to Oracle 10gChapter 8Understanding and Using Forms Builder

James Perry and Gerald Post

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Chapter Outline

• Introduction to Forms• Creating a Simple Main Form with the Forms

Builder• Modifying Forms• Creating Tabular Forms and Sub Forms

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8.1: The Agent form for Redwood Realty shows one agent at a time

Sample forms

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8.2: The License Status form uses a grid layout to display multiple rows

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8.3: The Agent Contacts from combines a main form with a tabular form

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8.6 Web services architecture

Developer User

Database server

Application serverForms

builderName.fmb

Compiled formName.fmx

Java-enabled Web browser

Forms and data

Overview of forms architecture on the Web

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8.5 Design view of the structure of an Oracle form

Object Navigator

CanvasToolsProperty Palette

Items

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8.6 Choosing tables with the data block wizard

The Browse button gives you the list of tables

Creating a form with the wizards

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8.7 Choosing columns with the data block wizard

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8.8 Setting prompts and column widths in the layout wizard

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8.9 Choosing the number of records in the layout wizard

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8.10 Design of the initial Customer form

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8.11 First step of JInitiator setup

Running the form

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8.12 Initial Customer form and form controls

Execute QuerySelect prior or next record

Add or delete records

Save changes

Close form

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8.13 Simple form query to find all customers with a last name beginning with the letter B

Enter Query Execute Query Cancel Query

Displaying data with form queries

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8.14 Rows filtered by the query

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8.15 Object alignment options

The Layout Editor

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8.16 The object navigator

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8.17 Common form modifications

Alignment options

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8.18 Adding a static image

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8.19 Design for the Listings form

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8.20 Loading an image to the database

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Table 8.1: Property changes for query lookup values

Property New Value

Name FIRSTNAME

Prompt First Name

Prompt Attachment Offset 7

Database Item Yes

Column Name FIRSTNAME

Primary Key No

Query Only Yes

Adding lookup columns with a List Of Values

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8.21 Choosing the return item with the List of Values wizard

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8.22 List of values for selecting the listing agent

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8.23 Changing an item type to Radio Group

Adding Radio buttons

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8.24 Properties for the radio button

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8.25 Radio buttons on the form

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8.26 Setting the initial properties for a tabular form

Creating tabular forms

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8.27 Tabular design for license status values

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8.28 Creating a relationship for a main/sub form

Creating a main with sub form

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8.29 Initial main form and sub form design

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Table 8.2: Properties to change to add a display column

Property Value

Name FIRSTNAME

Enabled No

Column Name FIRSTNAME

Query Only Yes

Prompt First Name

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Table 8.3: Common entries for format masks

Formatting Character Display Effect

X Any character or digit.

A Only alphabetic characters.

9 Only numbers.

0 Only numbers and displays leading zeros.

YYYY Four digit year.

MM Two digit year number.

DD Day of month.