Re: Forms 4.0/4.5

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>Oracle folks, I am re-posting this previous message to see if I can get any
>more respsonses. I did receive one response for each question, but I need
>more info and I have added a third question...
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>1) In forms4.5, does anybody know in which database table the boilerplate
>items are stored? I can't find any trace of boilerplate text in any of the
>following tables: frm45__object, frm45__buffer, frm45__bindvar, frm45__grp.
>Am I missing any of the form tables?
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>The boilerplate stuff appears to be kept in one the ROS tables, ROSSTRINGS
>to be exact, but is stored as a long RAW. Which means I really can't see it.
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When you select the long RAW column into a VARCHAR2 variable, you get a hex string. You can write a small PL/SQL function to return the ASCII string for this HEX string. I have done this before and it works.

Good luck.

Raghu
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