Re: Can Forms access client-side files?
Date: 1997/03/24
Message-ID: <5h54ml$fg9_at_info.csufresno.edu>#1/1
I haven't tried this, but the Text_IO package comes to mind. You could use the Forms "Host" command to run a DOS script to check for files and directories, and via DOS's '>' output redirection indicator, write the results to a temporary file. (Of course, this is assuming all your users' client machines are pc's) Then using the Text_IO package, read the file to see if the files you want are there. All of this is heavily dependent on everyone using the same client operating system, and I don't even know if Text_IO would read such files.
If any of this works, please post a followup to let everyone know.
Good luck,
Steve Cosner
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In article <3334BA72.4478_at_erols.com>, Jeff Bangle <JBangle_at_erols.com> wrote:
>We have users in many geographically dispersed locations. Several users
>are on LANs administered by other organizations, so we can't get direct
>access to them. Whenever we get ready to release a new version, we send
>out floppies with the new forms. The new forms are supposed to be
>preinstalled on each LAN so that we don't 'lose' any users when we
>upgrade the production database.
>
>The problem is, no matter how many phone calls we make to the Network
>Administrators at each site, we always have a few users that didn't the
>new forms installed, and are unable to access the data they need for a
>day or two.
>
>What I want to do is have Oracle Forms do a quick check of the
>client-side directories every time a user logs into the database. Forms
>would look for specified files and report back to the database if they
>were present or not. That way, we would know in advance which users
>didn't have the necessary files for the next release before we upgrade
>the database. Is this possible, and if so, how?
Received on Mon Mar 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CET