The forms to apex migration wizard is awful.

Unfortunately for you, the best advice is don't use it.

We are in the same situation and we opted to just create the APEX pages from scratch since this would be a lot cleaner and easier to maintain.

We first move as much code as we code to the DB including validation since you can easily call this in APEX.

We then created sample pages to decide on the UI, multi-row block entry is going to be a challenge in APEX especially if you are using multi-row with single row items.

good luck.

SaiPhani wrote:

 

Databse version : 11.2.0.1.0

 

First thing to do is upgrade your database to, at least 11.2.0.4.

11.2.0.1 is very buggy.

MK

Hi SaiPhani

I hope the following thread helps you

Re: training for converting forms to Apex

Regards

Mahmoud

You will spend more resources on this conversion than you would building the application to suit a browser.

At best, this tool will help you annotate what you've done, and you should be able to re-use pl/sql from a decently designed Forms application.

I did a talk once...

http://sagecomputing.com.au/papers_presentations/Forms_to_Apex_Conversion.pdf

It seems I made the same comment 2 years ago in Mahmoud's link...

Alex Nuijten has also presented on this subject at various conferences (I can't find a copy of the presentation on his blog so can't link directly) and his opinion is the same as Scott's I believe, i.e.: don't waste time trying to convert, instead re-design applications to use the strengths of APEX. I appreciate this doesn't help with your original query but I don't believe there's any magic bullet to 'make forms into APEX'... Now, I just have to convince those above me of this too... *sigh* ;-)

Cheers.

Mint-Innit? wrote:

 

Now, I just have to convince those above me of this too... *sigh* ;-)

Convince them of the non-existence of a magic Forms-to-APEX conversion tool, or convince them that APEX applications cannot (and should not) look and operate like Forms applications?

Convince them of the non-existence of a magic Forms-to-APEX conversion tool, or convince them that APEX applications cannot (and should not) look and operate like Forms applications?

Yes!