RE: A basic forms question

Thanks for teh info.

Regards
Long

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Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2001 11:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

You'll get those messages when the calling form's FMX was created with a newer version of Oracle Forms than the called form's FMX. Maybe the calling form was converted to Forms 6 and the called form is still in Forms 5 format. Just re-compile the older FMB using Forms 6 (or whatever your most current version is) and you should be able to run the form.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nguyen, Long [mailto:Long.Nguyen_at_its.csiro.au]
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:00 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: A basic forms question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> A user aksed me (a DBA) the question below about forms:
>
>
> <<<I have been trying to open some Oracle forms but it always
> gives me this
> message: "form was created by an old version of form builder"
> or "cannot
> open form". Do you know what this mean? I looked at the fmb files and
> appears to be dated the 9/2/00 when the fmx files are dated
> the 9/6/00. Is
> there a way to fix this? It's the same for the other computers in our
> office but somehow you can open the forms without any hiccups.
>
> Also, Is it possible to import the structure of Oracle forms
> to Access or
> you have to build them from scratch in Access. So far, we've
> only been able
> to import the data from Oracle to Access only. >>>
>
>
> I never use forms so do not know the answer. It seems that
> the user was
> using a newer version of forms to open an a form created in
> an old version.
> For Forms do you need to upgrade old forms when you upgrade the forms
> software? Also pls answer the Access question if you can.
>
> Much appreciated. Many thanks.
>
> Long
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