18/23 FORMS - Run Application from desktop

Hands-on Introduction

Your clients ask you that they would like to run their application from the desktop. They want to use Forms “Runtime” to execute their application.

Your tasks are:

1- Create an icon on the client PC desktop.

2- Use Forms “Runtime” to run their application.

3- Associate their “Customer Order” application to the Forms “Runtime.”

4- Run and login to application from icon.

5- Run and test all user functional requirements.

You will learn how to: run your application from desktop.

Create a new Shortcut

Go to the desktop screen, right click on an empty area, choose the New item, and select the Shortcut option.

Command Line box

In the Create Shortcut window, enter the Runtime Form program with your compiled form name (For example: ifrun60 c:_orders_v15) into the Command Line box. Then click ‘Next.’

Select a Title

In the ‘Select a Title for the Program’ window, enter your application name (Customer Orders Application) into the box. Then click ‘Finish.’

Now, your shortcut was created and you can execute your application from desktop.

Test a form from desktop

To test the functionality of your work, double click on the icon to run the application Form.

In the Logon window, enter the username and password, and then click “Connect.”

Click on “Execute query.”

Navigate through the application Form.

Test all the features and options, and then close it.

Questions:

Q: How can you run an application from desktop?

Q: They ask you that they would like to run their application from the desktop. They want to use Forms “Runtime” to execute their application.

Your tasks are:

1- Create an icon on the client PC desktop.

2- Use Forms “Runtime” to run their application.

3- Associate their “Customer Order” application to the Forms “Runtime.”

4- Run and login to application from icon.

5- Run and test all user functional requirements.