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1. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
Neil Clare Jun 12, 2018 2:31 PM (in response to SaiPhani)The forms to apex migration wizard is awful.
Unfortunately for you, the best advice is don't use it.
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2. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
kvsinfo Jun 12, 2018 3:12 PM (in response to SaiPhani)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.
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3. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
SaiPhani Jun 12, 2018 4:40 PM (in response to Neil Clare)Thanks for your reply Neil... Where i will get forms to apex migration wizard..... can you please suggest and give me the steps...
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4. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
SaiPhani Jun 12, 2018 4:41 PM (in response to kvsinfo)Thanks kvs for your reply.... unfortunately i dont have enough resources to do from scratch....
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5. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
Mike Kutz Jun 12, 2018 4:42 PM (in response to SaiPhani)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
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6. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
Mahmoud_Rabie Jun 13, 2018 3:05 AM (in response to SaiPhani)Hi SaiPhani
I hope the following thread helps you
Re: training for converting forms to Apex
Regards
Mahmoud
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7. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
Scott Wesley Jun 13, 2018 5:42 AM (in response to SaiPhani)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...
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8. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
Mint-Innit Jun 13, 2018 6:37 AM (in response to SaiPhani)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.
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9. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
fac586 Jun 13, 2018 6:53 AM (in response to Mint-Innit)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?
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10. Re: Migration from Forms to Apex
Mint-Innit Jun 13, 2018 3:49 PM (in response to fac586)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!