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Display PDF file using Forms 6i

Asked by: snataraj73

Hi,
My company is running on Oracle Applications R11.5.10.
I am trying to create a custom form and register it against the application.
This form should facilitate to display PDF documents stored in database tables
to the user for viewing only.

The forms Version is 6i.

Any immediate help would be great.

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2006-02-16 at 11:39:34ID21739888
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by: stephenmrajPosted on 2006-02-21 at 16:44:03ID: 16014591

if you have the images in a BLOB, its quite easy.  Here is an example that
loads a GIF into the datbase and displays it.  You would of course change the
mime type and the name of the procedure from .gif to .pdf.  Then you will be
able to use HTML like:

<a href=/dcd/owa/image.pdf?p_id=55>Click Me</a>

to retrieve "document 55" for example.

The following code just created a demo table and loads an image into it -- you
already have the pdfs loaded so its not 100% relevant to your problem

create table demo
( id        int primary key,
  theBlob    blob
)
/

create or replace directory my_files as '/export/home/tkyte/public_html';

declare
    l_blob    blob;
    l_bfile    bfile;
begin
    insert into demo values ( 1, empty_blob() )
    returning theBlob into l_blob;

    l_bfile := bfilename( 'MY_FILES', 'aria.gif' );
    dbms_lob.fileopen( l_bfile );

    dbms_lob.loadfromfile( l_blob, l_bfile,
                               dbms_lob.getlength( l_bfile ) );

    dbms_lob.fileclose( l_bfile );
end;
/

Now here is the package that can retrieve the pdf (or anything for that
matter.  Just keep adding procedures that are named after the file type like
.doc, .pdf, .xls and so on.  Some browsers really want the extension in the URL
to be "correct")

create or replace package image_get
as
    procedure gif( p_id in demo.id%type );
end;
/

create or replace package body image_get
as

procedure gif( p_id in demo.id%type )
is
    l_lob    blob;
    l_amt    number default 30;
    l_off   number default 1;
    l_raw   raw(4096);
begin
    select theBlob into l_lob
        from demo
         where id = p_id;

        -- make sure to change this for your type!
    owa_util.mime_header( 'image/gif' );

        begin
           loop
              dbms_lob.read( l_lob, l_amt, l_off, l_raw );

              -- it is vital to use htp.PRN to avoid
              -- spurious line feeds getting added to your
              -- document
              htp.prn( utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2( l_raw ) );
              l_off := l_off+l_amt;
              l_amt := 4096;
           end loop;
        exception
           when no_data_found then
              NULL;
        end;
end;

end;
/


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