Importing group data from Oracle Central Designer with the Shell Report

For Oracle InForm 6.1 and above, Display Overrides and System configuration settings are defined in Oracle Central Designer and not Oracle InForm. Rights Groups that need Display Overrides need to be defined in Oracle Central Designer as well.

Signature Group content should be defined in Oracle Central Designer. Query Group names may be defined in Oracle Central Designer as well.

Signature Groups, Rights Groups and Query Groups must also be defined in Oracle InForm User Management Tool to assign roles/users to them. If this is done manually, there is a risk of introducing errors.

The information defined in Oracle Central Designer can be exported to an XML file called a Shell Report. You can import the Shell Report into Oracle InForm User Management Tool to load the data defined in Oracle Central Designer into Oracle InForm User Management Tool. Users or roles can then be assigned to these groups, and the system configuration settings will be set.

Note:

Item groups and display overrides should only be defined in Oracle Central Designer. Importing the Shell Report will not import these into Oracle InForm User Management Tool. Importing the Shell Report will only import signature groups, rights groups and query groups.

1. Select Groups from the menu bar.
2. Select the trial from the Trial drop-down list.
3. On the left, click Import Shell Report.
4. In the Import Shell Report dialog box, browse to the XML file created in Oracle Central Designer, and click Import.