Re: Forms 4.5, Blocks & Triggers (Help)

From: <smagdaddy_at_aol.com>
Date: 1996/12/20
Message-ID: <19961220025900.VAA27263@ladder01.news.aol.com>#1/1

 I'm not sure what you mean by

>I am writting some Oracle Forms 4.5 programs and was wondering if there
 is an
>easy way of passing parameters to blocks. For example if I am in Block A
 and
>want to call Block B passing a parameter to it at the same time (I know
 this
>can be done using globals or :Block_A.Item_I_Want_To_Pass

but for the second part of your post,

>Another question I have is that can I cause a trigger in Block B to fire
 up
>when I am in Block A.

The way to do this is to move the code in the Block B trigger you want to fire, into a program unit. Then you can call the procedure or function from anywhere in the application.

Hope this helps.

P.S. This message really belongs under comp.databases.oracle.tools

Rodger Hollingsworth

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US Navy (DBA, Dev2K, SCO Unix)
You'll never get it unless you ask, Then again you may not even if you do ask. Received on Fri Dec 20 1996 - 00:00:00 CST