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Display Word Document [message #190793]

Fri, 01 September 2006 05:01

RJ.Zijlstra
Messages: 104
Registered: December 2005
Location: Netherlands - IJmuiden

Senior Member

Hi List,

Forms 6i, Oracle db 10GR2

A question which looks simple, but got me stumped:

I created a table:

CREATE TABLE DOCS
(
DOCS_ID INTEGER NOT NULL,
INHOUD CLOB NULL
)

Through Forms I can INPUT values in the clob-column. But if the data is a word_document, I can input it, but not 'output' it in MS-Word.

Is it really necessary to first ( through dbms_lob pkg ) extract the clob, save it on a disk location, and then open Word to open that file?

Again, when I want to create a new document, I can do it through Forms directly, so it seems to me rather strange one cannot open directly.

Any help, pointers etc will be appreciated. I googled, searched through forums, but alas..

Regards

Rob Zijlstra

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