To Start Oracle Forms

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To start Oracle Forms
1. Log on to your workstation if needed (in Levin Lab, you need Levin username and
password)
2. After you successfully logon, go to Start Menu, select Run and type Telnet
pegasus.rutgers.edu
3. Enter your pegasus username and password
4. After you logon successfully to pegasus, start Oracle forms by typing f60desm
5. You should receive the following welcome screen, unless you deselected the
option Display at startup in a previous time
6) You can use this screen to build a new data block either manually or using the
wizard. You can also use it for opening an existing form or learning about Oracle Forms.
7) If you press cancel, you get the Object Navigator screen. The Object Navigator starts
with a new form called Module1.
Building Data Blocks Using the Wizard
1) Click on Module1 in the Object Navigator, then select Data Block Wizard as shown in next
screen
2) You get the Data Block Wizard’s welcome screen
Select Table or View
Click Browse button to select a table
If you have not connected to the database during this session, you will be asked to
connect. You will get the following screen
For this tutorial, select the DEPARTMENT table
Move all the columns to the right by clicking the >> button
Click Finish to move on to the Layout Wizard
The Layout Wizard
The layout wizard starts by the welcome screen unless you selected not to display it in
a previous session
Since this is the first data block in the form, we will use a new Canvas
Move all the columns to the right and select Next
Change the width and height of the data items if you do not like the
default values provided. Make sure it is large enough to hold the data.
Click Finish to finalize the data block. You will get the following screen (the Canvas)
Saving the form
To Save the form, select Save option from File menu, or press ctrl+s. The form will be saved
in your home folder on pegasus with an extension .fmb
Compiling The Form
Since the form is actually a program, you have to compile it to make sure that there are no
errors. To compile the form go the File menu, select Administration, then select Compile
File. The shortcut for compile is ctrl+t. The compilation process produces a file with the
same name and with extension .fmx
Notice that if you run the form without compilation, the run command will compile the form
before running it.
Running the Form
To run the form, select Run Form from Programs menu or click the run form client/server
icon (look like a light signal)
When you run the form you get the following screen. As you can see, Oracle Forms added
a Menu Bar and a Tool Bar to your form automatically. These bars let you insert, delete,
update, and query data in the database.
Notice that you have to click the Save icon or Select Save option from Action menu to
Commit the changes.
The Query interface is a query by example (QBE) where you can put values in the data
items and perform query on them. You can also use variables or write your own Where
clause.
Adding a Detail section (Creating a Master-Detail Form)
To add a detail section to the form, right click anywhere in the Canvas and select Data Block
Wizard as shown in the next screen.
The data block wizard will take you through the same steps except that you will have an
option to create a relationship between the existing table and the new table after selecting
the new table.
Since we selected Department Table as the Master table, we can select Employee as the
detail table.
Notice that Department table, the master table, is a parent table to the Employee table, the
detail table.
When you select Employee table, move the columns to the right side, and select next you
get the following screen
When you click Create Relationship button, you get the following screen
As you see the Foreign Key relation works a Master-Detail Relation. Click OK, then
select DNO as the detail item and DNUMBER as the master item as shown in the
next screen.
Continue the rest of the steps as before except the last step, instead of selecting Form,
select Tabular, set number of rows to 3, and check the "display scroll bar box" as shown
in the following screen
When you finish you should get the following screen
Running the Master-Detail Form
Run the form as before by clicking the "run form client/server" icon or by selecting run
form from Programs menu.
Now, when you run any query in the Master table, the related rows are displayed in the
detail table as shown in the next screen
List of Values
To avoid memorizing large number of values and to avoid errors in data entry, a List Of
Values (LOV) can be attached to a field in the form.
For example, in the next steps, we will attach the an LOV from the DNUMBER field in the
DEPARTMENT table to the DNO field in the EMPLOYEE table.
First, go to the Tools menu and select LOV wizard

Write a query to get the list of values as shown in the following screen. Notice that we are
retrieving the values from the DEPARTMENT table although the LOV will be attached to a
filed in the EMPLOYEE table
Select the column to include in the record group
Click the "Look up return item" button
Select Employee.DNO
Click OK for the next step
Again, click OK
Select EMPLOYEE.DNO
Although we attached the LOV to DNO, it does not work unless you re-attach it from
the object navigator
In the Object Navigator, select the field you want to attach a list of values to, right
click that field and select Property Palette.
In the property palette select LOV and select the LOV you have just created as shown in
the next screen
Using LOVs
When you insert data in the DNO field (while the form is running and in the normal
mode, not the query mode), you can use the attached list of values by clicking ctrl-l in
UNIX or F9 in Windows. You will get the following screen.
Using Wizards
Report Builder has a Report Wizard, Data Wizard, and Web Wizard to automate the
creation of reports. Most often, you can create a report by starting with one of the
wizards, and then refining the report that the wizard creates using the data model view
and the layout view.

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