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A card-like javabean
The task In some application i've seen a layout where the data is presented in a card-like style, having a picture to the left, a title on top and some text containing additional information. I liked the layout, so i decided that this should also be possible...
Pasting Excel-data to a forms-block
The task There was a thread in the Forms-forum these days dealing with Copy&Paste-problems, especially with the question if its possible to copy whole rows into a forms-block. As this is structured data and. of course, forms doesn't know how do deal with...
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Building a treetable-like form (part 2)
The task My last post was about "building a treetable-like form", it ended with a functional version which didn't look very sophisticated. Lets change that. An example I'll use the same example as in part 1, the EMPLOYEES-table from hr. The approach The...
Working with trees
The task Trees are a nice feature to present hierarchical data. And, since forms 5 they are available as standard components in forms. A lot of forum posts are related to trees and the way they are populated. I want to show some different techniques to...
Populating listitems dynamically
The task Listitems in forms are quite useful if one has to offer a smaller choice of values to the enduser. Often the values to be displayed have to be taken from another table, so the listitems values have to be read at runtime. Also, listitems are often...
Do it silently
The task Another often asked question from the forum How can i supress that message FRM-40401..... when doing some programmatic COMMIT_FORM ? And its not only the COMMIT_FORM, it could also be EXECUTE_QUERY with the message FMR-40350... The logic behind...
Calling a form and passing a context
The task One common task in a forms-application is call one form form another one and give some context-information to that new form when calling it. In some cases you also want to get a kind of "return-value" when the called form is finished to that...
