Re: Sending Oracle Reports output to Clients Browser for read or Download on WWW

The extension of the generated file on the server should be .txt if it is text file. Use the Web.show_document command in webforms to point the uses browser att he file - they will be asked whether to open with notepad or save to disk....

This is the way you transfer documents from server to client... You can do the same with CSV files for excel (XLS extension) and text files for Word (DOC extension). Let the client helpers (in their browsers) determine how the file is handled...

This is about all your limited to without OLE in webforms...

Cheers,

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Richard Leigh
Senior Projects Leader - Special Projects
Management Information Systems, ITS
Deakin University



baker6095_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:



> Hi, We have developed an application using oracle forms that accesses an


> Oracle 7 database via the world wide web. The client requests data from the

> database and report writer generates a file in text or acrobat pdf format

> when the client clicks on a button. This file goes to a physical directory

> currently, however my question is... can this report file be sent to the

> clients web browser  (via http), and generate the standard window for opening

> or saving the file to the clients PC, after which he can view the generated

> file on his own hard disk. Any insight, suggestions, solutions, thoughts

> would be greatly appreciated.

>

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