Day: November 17, 2012

Oracle developer 10g, developer 6i default values for columns using :PARAMETER.name

On By windows7bugsIn Oracle related, Windows 7, Windows 8Leave a comment

We just came across a peculiar situation. Recently we had developed a new approach towards developing new applications for Oracle EBS instance.

We do the following

Develop the prototype using developer 6i forms (hacked and patched for Windows 7 & Windows 8). The only change we make with the developer 6i is changing the “coordinate system” property from points to “inches”

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This approach gives us rapid development scenarios, as we don’t have to upload the form module to instance top and compile it and try it against the TEST instances.

All we are doing is, once the complete application is tested on developer 6i, a copy of the same opened with Developer 10g forms, and copying the objects following the following sequence

  1. Window( s )
  2. Canvases
  3. Blocks
  4. Procedures & functions
  5. Parameters (if any)

Once mapping the PARAMETERS with PROFILE values, the form is ready for APPS instance testing (99% of the times everything is already tested, so a failure is seldom experienced)

Now, coming to one actual issue we are still struggling with is, using the :PARAMETER.xyz, :PARAMETER.abc as initial values for block elements.

The hacked developer 6i does not populate the initial value from :PARAMETER.xyz or :PARAMETER.abc during run time. ie, the first record (record orientation: forms) will not show the already populated values for the columns, however, the very next record(a delete does it) starts showing the :PARAMETER.xyz, abc values being populated to columns wherever they are set as initial values!!!

Do you have solutions? Please let us know with the comment section

Update 19.11.2012

With developer forms 6i, we loaded the values to column through the WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE like following

:PARAMETER.ORGANIZATION_ID := FND_PROFILE.VALUE(‘org_id’);
:PARAMETER.ORG_ID := FND_PROFILE.VALUE(‘mfg_organization_id’);
:PARAMETER.USERNAME := FND_PROFILE.VALUE(‘username’);

then, explicitly assigned the values to block columns like

:BLOCK.COLUMN1 := :PARAMETER.ORGANIZATION_ID;

in addition to setting up the initial value for the columns using :PARAMETER.xyz

Looks like the stuff are in place now :)

With Developer 10g, this issue has much easier to fix. All we had to do was to change the case of coding like following:

:parameter.organization_id := fnd_profile.value(‘org_id’);
:parameter.org_id := fnd_profile.value(‘mfg_organization_id’);
:parameter.username := fnd_profile.value(‘username’);

To

:PARAMETER.ORGANIZATION_ID := FND_PROFILE.VALUE(‘org_id’);
:PARAMETER.ORG_ID := FND_PROFILE.VALUE(‘mfg_organization_id’);
:PARAMETER.USERNAME := FND_PROFILE.VALUE(‘username’);

and without any further hacks, the 10g forms started showing initial values.

If you experienced the same, have a solution, please provide us the same with the comment section

regards,

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Windows 8, Should Microsoft enable the start menu?

On By windows7bugsIn Windows 81 Comment

Huge arguments everywhere! Being developers all around the clock, #windows7bugs believes, the choice should be left alone on individual user.

We are trying to demonstrate, how a classic menu approach would make things a bit better for developers, techies who have to browse through pool of sub-menu elements to do their everyday job!

Windows 8 new startup interface

start-menupng

Okay, we are techies and we will find out what we want from the tiled interface (after spending pretty decent time) pool and “try” to pretend that we are with the move

Worse scenarios, we just use classic shell and get straight on to our desired application. We are not ashamed to say we are from the ol ol schools Smile

classic_start

Bravo, now we can see Microsoft sending away few techies who thought they would be remembered for their “outstanding” visionary approaches with a no-harm meant “start” button elimination and easy access to applications through “metro” tiled application UI!

Yes, Microsoft, bring back what was there, let the users decide whether they want to change, finally like our employer always reminds us “Customer is the GOD”. So listen to customers and give them what they ask for.

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