FormsAPI Master

FormsAPI Master helps you to programmatically modify and analyze Oracle Forms and Reports Modules. An easy to learn scripting language (similar to PL/SQL) gives you full access & flexibility over Oracle's Forms Open API. FormsAPI Master is a powerful add on tool for the Oracle Developer Suite that allows you to automate and track changes in Oracle Forms and Reports modules!

Automate complex tasks by writing scripts

Endless possibilities

The possibilities with FormsAPI are truly endless. Here are just a few examples of what is possible and has been done with FormsAPI Master:

• Resize your old legacy 640*480 screens to 1024*768 or whatever resolution you like!
• Make sure your application runs on Unix & Windows (lowercase icon filename, menus and library filenames, etc ...)
• Make a visual make-over of your old design, Use a new color scheme, icons, add PJCs, and background graphics to give your application modern up to date look!
• Translate labels, captions, titles, prompts, texts and list items of your Forms module into another languages and make it multilingual!
• Attach new libraries and detach old ones
• Analyze and gather change impact information
• Check your application conforms to "good practices" - every item has a visual attribute assigned, every button/menu item/radio button has a shortcut, fields have the proper height, etc ...
• Add a new line of code to the "When-New-Form-Instance" trigger in every module
• Replace the obsolete run_product calls in Forms9i with report-objects
• Batch compile all your modules
• Convert boilerplate texts to prompts
• Patch module information for version control directly into the module
• Integrate the DeveloperCompare tool with many leading Change Management Systems
• ...and many more ..

Making change happen

In normal application development environments you think twice before making changes to your whole application system that are not absolutely necessary. Mostly because if you have to do all the work manually it will take weeks or months .. or is simply impossible to do. This is where FormsAPI Master really shines. The tool gives you the power to apply all sorts of complex changes to your whole application system often within hours. Think of FormsAPI Master as a tool to increase your development team by 500 junior developers. You will need to tell them exactly what to do (by writing a script) but once they know they will execute the work for you in mere minutes and in perfect quality (nothing gets overlooked!) instead of weeks or months.

Worth the investment

Many of our customers are able to claim a ROI (return of investment) with the time saved through automation on their very first project. Depending on your project requirements FormsAPI Master can save you weeks or even months of human developer time! Many of them buy it for a big Forms version upgrade project, but then find other uses for FormsAPI Master scripts almost on a weekly base. There is no doubt that FormsAPI Master increases productivity and quality of your applications by a large factor.

More tools for everyday use

FormsAPI Master also comes with a variety of other useful tools. The Compare and the Search tool for example are two of the tools that many developers can use almost daily.

Compare Visually compare and merge differences in objects, properties, and code in Forms or Reports Modules. Spot differences in Oracle Forms and Reports modules immediately No more guessing what changes broke the new version of a module - with this tool you know the answer within seconds! It's also great for other common structured development practices such as Code Reviews, TwoStream Development and Change Management. The DeveloperCompare utility is a handy tool that will save you hours of frustration and work! Compare Features: 2 Way Compare 3 Way Compare Directory Compare	Search Search through hundreds of modules(Forms,Reports,text files,etc) in minutes. Search hundreds of modules with complex search criteria PowerSearch handles all the common search problems (whitespaces, comments, strings, wildcards, etc) for you by using special rules that take PL/SQL syntax into consideration and even allows you to edit the results directly in the search window. A special Property-Search mode even allows complex search criteria based on multiple property values. Search Features: Simple searches Advanced regular expression searches Complex property values searches Edit search results	Analyzer Extract code dependencies, statistics, data models and other useful information to get an overview over your code. Analyzer helps you to keep the overview over your application The analyzer extracts and documents all there is to know of your Oracle module. The dependecies extracted can be used to get a complete overview of your whole application architecture. Knowing the relation ships between modules, code and data is a must have item for developers and system analysts. Analyzer features: Extract dependencies (database/files/libraries) Extract ERD data model of blocks & LOV's Extract CRUD table usage Objects & Code statistics Canvas screenshots Export to Html/JSON/XML/PDF
Batch Automate common tasks such as compiling, converting, upgrading, extracting, etc. Run common developer tasks on a batch of modules The batch tools is a collection of useful functions that can make life as a Oracle developer easier. Some of the functionality is currently still under development but i hope to have most of it covered soon. Batch features: Compile an application Upgrade Forms/Reports to a new version Convert modules to/from binary/xml Check module versions Extract module properties Change Forms color palette	Explorer The Explorer tool extracts all objects and properties from a module and shows it in a hierarchical tree. Explore your modules internal structure The explorer tool is similar to what you can see in Forms Builder. It gives you access to every object and property. The properties can be edited and saved as well as exported to Html/JSON/XML and Excel so that you can document your module and code.

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