Running Oracle Reports (Web) from Oracle Forms (Client Server)

[Petr]

I am trying to run an Oracle report successfully deployed
to the Web based reports services architecture, from a
Forms 6i client server based application.

I tried something like the following in the WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED
trigger:

host('iexplore.exe '||v_url);

This works fine, except that the report in the web browser has to be
dismissed closed before I can get back to the form. Is there any way
to asynchronously spawn the web browser from the form ?

I would highly appreciate advice from those that have actually
implemented this solution.

Thanks.

Petr.

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

Petr (ecotaj@gmail.com) wrote:
: I am trying to run an Oracle report successfully deployed
: to the Web based reports services architecture, from a
: Forms 6i client server based application.

: I tried something like the following in the WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED
: trigger:

: host('iexplore.exe '||v_url);

: This works fine, except that the report in the web browser has to be
: dismissed closed before I can get back to the form. Is there any way
: to asynchronously spawn the web browser from the form ?


something like

host('cmd/c start iexplore.exe ... ')

You might have to play with the quoting within the two levels of nt
commands to make that all work correctly.

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[Frank Piron]

Am 14 Apr 2005 14:23:32 -0700 schrieb Petr <ecotaj@gmail.com>:
.... I tried something like the following in the WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED trigger: host('iexplore.exe '||v_url); This works fine, except that the report in the web browser has to be dismissed closed before I can get back to the form. Is there any way to asynchronously spawn the web browser from the form ?

Have a look at WIN_API_SHELL.WINEXEC() in D2kWutil.pll. Winexec()
asynchronously spawns using CreateProcess() from win32 api.

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