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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">Now that the system I support is retired, I'm being moved around and it looks like I'll be doing a lot /more/ with Oracle than I had in the past -- in particular, it looks like I'll be working with "forms" now [in the past, our VB app provided the front-end to the database]</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">So, I've "tried out" the form designer -- took a bit of investigative work to determine that the way to access "objects" within the form is to use a colon (:) before the container/object name (that not-so-trivial fact doesn't appear in the on-line help, at least, not in any way that was easy to determine -- couldn't even find an "example" that referenced form items)</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">I found a nice tutorial online, which helped me quite a bit, but I'm still missing some critical details -- like how to populate a form with EXISTING data...</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">Any suggestions for more tutorials or information?</FONT></B>
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