Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms Tutorial

❚ Under Development Tools

❙ Select Oracle for Windows (Other tools)
❙ Choose Oracle Developer 6.0
❙ Form Builder
Forms: Starting Developer

❚ At the “Welcome to Form Builder”

Screen, make sure the “Use the Data
Block Wizard” is selected and click
“OK”
Data Block Wizard

❚ At the initial screen click Next

❚ Make sure Table View is selected and
choose Next
Data Block Wizard: Part 2

❚ At this Screen
select the Browse
Option
Data Block Wizard: Part 3

❚ A Connect screen
will then appear.
❚ Enter your User
Name, Password
and Database that
you were given for
your Oracle
Accounts
Data Block Wizard: Part 4

❚ At the Tables window, Choose

Current User and Ok
❚ At the next Tables window, double
click on the table you wish to create
a form for.
Data Block Wizard: Part 5

❚ The Table and its

fields will appear.
❚ If this is the wrong
table click back
and repeat from
Part 2
❚ Move all fields you
wish to include in
your Form to the
right side
Data Block Wizard: Part 6

❚ After clicking Next, you will see the

congratulations screen.
❚ Highlight the “Create the Data Block
and Call Layout Wizard” button and
select finish.
Layout Wizard

❚ Select Next at the initial two screens

❚ Next, Select all fields you wish to
include and move them to the right
column
Layout Wizard: Part 2

❚ At this field you

may edit the name
and size of your
attributes, but the
defaults match
your table
definitions.
❚ When finished
select Next
Layout Wizard: Part 3

❚ Select Forms and Click Next

❚ Title your record and Choose one
Record to be displayed and click
next
❚ Then Click Finish at the
Congratulations Screen
Adding more tables

❚ In some instances you will want

multiple tables in your form.
❙ First, if your runtime screen is open,
close it to get back to Developer.
❙ To add an additional table, go to the
Tools menu then to Data Block Wizard.
Adding more tables (cont.)

❚ After you choose the additional table, it

will prompt you to make a join to the
current table.
❚ To create a join:
❙ Uncheck the “Auto-join data blocks” box
❙ Click “Create Relationship…”
❙ Make sure the “Based on a join condition”
radius is marked and click OK
❙ Choose the master table and click OK
❙ Match the Detail Item with the Master Item
then click next
Altering the Design
❚ A window similar to
this one will next
appear.
❚ You may drag and edit
the fields in this
window.
❙ Change font, size,
height, width, location,
etc.
❚ You may also add
triggers and
specialized actions to
the form using PL/SQL
PL/SQL

❚ Stands for Procedural Language/SQL

❚ Implements application logic into
SQL
❚ With PL/SQL you can write triggers
that fire in response to the end-users
actions (ex: press a button, execute
a query, etc.)
❚ To learn more about using PL/SQL in
forms, go to cbt.bus.iastate.edu and
Run the Form

❚ Click the green stop light to run the

Form (Forms Runtime)
Entering Records

❚ You will now see

your Form appear.
❚ To get to the next
record, click the
forward blue arrow
❚ When finished,
click on the Open
Teal Door and Save
Changes
Creating and Using Forms

❚ This will update your Oracle account

adding all new records to your tables
Learning more…

❚ To learn more about Oracle

Developer:
❙ Goto: cbt.bus.iastate.edu
❙ Under Oracle Developer/2000 there are
many CBTs to help.