Overview
FormsMate is a Swiss Army Knife for Oracle application developers. It contains a robust set of utilities that makes developing Forms based applications easier and faster. There are five utilities that ship with this version of FormsMate; Find, Template, Destroy, Compare, and XML Export. Find allows users to quickly search multiple forms quickly and easily. Search criteria includes items, triggers, program units, blocks, etc... Want to drop a column? Use this component to find out if it's used. Template allows users to quickly give all your forms the same look and feel, copy/reference common Visual Attributes, Common Toolbars, to all existing forms. Destroy allows users to delete blocks, triggers, visual attributes, etc. Compare allows user to compare two forms to identify differences. XML Export allows user to export forms to XML.
FormsMate was designed to aid Oracle Forms development and maintenance.
Find
Search hundreds of forms at a time, find all instances of a search string.
Search includes;- Alert - Names
- Block - Names, base table/query, default where, order by
- Canvas - Names
- Editor - Names
- Items - Names, base column
- List of Vales - Names, record group, column mappings
- Program Unit - Names, text
- Record Groups - Name, base query
- Triggers - Name, text, form level, block level, item level
- Visual Attributes - Name
- Windows - Name
Do real impact analysis, real fast!
Find Results
Easy to read, no nonsense report.
Template
Have to change 300 forms, got all day? Copy/Reference that new visual attribute, block, trigger in all your forms in a matter of minutes.
Destroy
Doing some house cleaning, drop down lists make it selecting items a snap.
Need to remove old code from all your forms, with FormsMate it's only a few keystrokes and sit back and relax.
Compare
Are't sure what has changed between version? Which program is the latest version? Quick, easy and reliable compare.
