Oracle Forms

• What is Oracle Forms?
• Oracle Forms architecture
• Installing and configuring Oracle Forms
• The Form Builder environment

Students will learn to navigate the Oracle Form Builder interface, understanding its various components and how to use them effectively in application development.

• Creating a new form
• Form properties and attributes
• Saving and opening forms
• Compiling and running forms

• Layout managers (Tabular, Stacked, Grid)
• Frames and canvases
• Items and item types (Text Item, Checkbox, Radio Group, List Item, etc.)
• Buttons and icons
• Templates and reusable objects

• Creating and managing data blocks
• Data block properties and attributes
• Record groups and data manipulation
• Master-detail relationships
• Lovs (List of Values)

• Types of triggers (Key, Mouse, Timer, User-named)
• Creating and editing triggers
• Program units (procedures and functions)
• Built-in functions and packages
• Debugging triggers and program units

• Field-level validation
• Record-level validation
• Form-level validation
• Error handling and messaging
• Customizing error messages

• Navigation between forms and pages
• Navigation within a form (Go_Block, Go_Item)
• Transaction processing (COMMIT, ROLLBACK)
• Locking and concurrency control

• Creating and managing menus
• Menu properties and attributes
• Toolbar creation and customization
• Menu and toolbar triggers

• Deploying Forms on the web
• Forms runtime environment
• Forms Services and configuration
• Performance tuning and optimization
• Security considerations and best practices