Oracle Forms Developer – Form Builder Reference, Volume 1

GO_FORM built-in
Description
In a multiple-form application, navigates from the current form to the indicated target form. When
navigating with GO_FORM, no validation occurs and no triggers fire except WHEN-WINDOW-
DEACTIVATED, which fires for the form that initiates navigation, and WHEN-WINDOW-
ACTIVATED, which fires for the target window in the target form.
Attempting to navigate to a form that has not yet been opened raises an error.
Syntax
PROCEDURE GO_FORM
(form_id FORMMODULE);
PROCEDURE GO_FORM
(form_name VARCHAR2);
Built-in Type restricted procedure
Enter Query Mode no
Parameters
form_id The unique ID that is assigned to the form dynamically when it is
instantiated at runtime. Use the FIND_FORM built-in to return the ID to
an appropriately typed variable. The data type of the ID is
FORMMODULE.
form_name The name of the target form. The data type of name is VARCHAR2. The
GO_FORM built-in attempts to search for the form module name, not the
name of the .fmx file.
GO_FORM restrictions
The target form cannot be a form that is currently disabled as a result of having invoked another form
with CALL_FORM.
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