We are going to briefly look at forms builder before we start developing a new form. E-Business Suite does not use some features of the forms developer IDE such as alerts or reports. There are also some functions in EBS that replace some of the standard Oracle Forms built-ins. We will look at some of these in the coming chapters. Let's start by looking at the interface and discussing the features that need to be highlighted before we get started. The following screenshot shows us the forms developer once we have opened the TEMPLATE form:
We will discuss the IDE and the features available before we get going:
1. Module: We need to change its properties from TEMPLATE to the name of our form. The name must be the same as the name of the form. We always need to set the property class (Subclass Information) to MODULE. We also need to set the Console Window and the First Navigable Block properties.
2. Triggers: The form level Triggers come with some code...