Re: alternative to hard coding a directory location?

Also, on the PC where Forms/Reports is installed, you'll find the following "keys" in the registry at HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOMEn, where n is the home number (mine is HOME1, but yours is probably different):

FORMS60_PATH, GRAPHICS60_PATH, REPORTS60_PATH Elias Asfaw-Kirby wrote:
> We do the same type of thing:
> Open_form('filename');
>
> In windows environment set:
> FORMS60_PATH=C:\MyForms
> or what your path is.
>
> If you call a report from forms there is a REPORTS60_PATH also
>
> Elias Asfaw-Kirby
> elias at icpsr dot umich - edu
>
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> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
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>>mburns_at_sjm.com (Mark Burns) wrote in message

>>>I am trying to help out a coworker who is using a hard coded location
>>>to open another form with a trigger on button. She is currently using
>>>this format to call the file
>>>OPEN_FORM('W:\xxx\yyy\filename');
>>>
>>>and I would like to change this to something like
>>>
>>>OPEN_FORM($Home'filename');
>>>
>>>So that trigger calls the file that is in the same directory as the
>>>menu file that is calling it. This will help us to use source control
>>>a little more efficently.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>Mark Burns
>>
>>
>>Using '%<ENV VAR>%/filename' should do the trick.
>>
>>Hth
>>
>>Sybrand Bakker
>>Senior Oracle DBA