Re: Oracle forms

create a splash screen and have that screen query the database and run your checks there.
If it fails,... give a message or just exit the application.

exit_form(no_validate)

"Twocandles" <twocandles3000_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:abo3dt$dn8$1_at_nsnmpen2-gest.nuria.telefonica-data.net...
>
> hello.
>
> i'm a newbie in forms, and i have some questions about it. i'm using a
> web generated form within a web page which implements some kind of
security
> (a user must be authenticated, and the user information goes along the
user
> session). i don't know how to do the following: how to check if the user
is
> logged on when calling the form executable (ifcgi60.exe). Since this is an
> .exe file, there's no way of modifying it. I've considered the possibility
> of using servlets (don't know how to configure it though), but the problem
> seems the same i guess.
>
> So, the point is how to do some checks BEFORE calling the forms cgi.
> One possibility is to call it from the command line (therefore not
accesible
> from the browser), but it requires to be called through the web server as
a
> cgi... :(
>
> if someone can give some advice.
>
> thx.
>
>
>
Received on Tue May 14 2002 - 00:02:50 CEST