You will Learn

• How to work with an application system where the analysis and database design phases have already been completed.
• How to use Oracle Designer to generate applications during the module design and development phases (generating Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, menus, and PL/SQL libraries).
• How to work with the repository, the Design Editor, the Application Design Transformer, and the Forms, Reports, and Library Generator.
• Methods for generating modules in a way that ensures the applications are generated according to your specific requirements.

Topics

• The importance of earlier development phases before starting the module design.
• Creating modules: manually and using the Application Design Transformer.
• Generating modules.
• Preferences as a factor in generation.
• Other generation factors: the role of template forms and object libraries.
• Modules with multiple module components.
• Windows and canvas layout, including multi-region blocks.
• Block and item layout.
• Item groups.
• Non-base table items: lookup items, derived items, buttons.
• Generating List of Values (LOVs).
• Generating Navigator Items.
• Designing report modules.
• Report layout.
• Report queries.
• Creating and generating a menu.
• Client-side Application Logic: event code, named routines, and PL/SQL libraries.
• Interaction between modules: named and argument-passed values.