Introduction

These installation instructions are for use with Oracle 8i Personal Edition and for Forms
Developer 6i as downloaded from the Oracle web site. The instructions apply to PC
installation only.

This guide does not reproduce all screens that you see, just the main ones. Other dialogue
boxes may pop up which will require you to click on the OK button. It is recommended that
you read through these instructions prior to starting to install.

During the installation system supplied user names and passwords will be displayed on one
of the screens. You should make a note of these (particularly the SYSTEM user name and
password) as you will require them for initial access to Oracle in order to create users and
passwords for your students. They are not reproduced here for security purposes.

Note that the version of Oracle 8i Personal Edition that can be downloaded from the
Oracle web site is for Windows NT and 2000, but can successfully be installed on
Windows XP. These instructions have been written using windows XP as the
operating system. If you install on windows XP there will be some elements such as
Web forms that cannot be installed. This will not affect the rest of the installation.
However you will have a program group created in Windows XP that refers to NT and
you will need to use this to configure the database.

Installation of Oracle 8i

Begin by running the installer for Oracle. You can do this by double clicking on setup.exe.
This will automatically give you the Welcome screen.
Click on the Next button to continue with the installation of Oracle 8i Personal edition. The
next screen will ask you to enter the path of the product that you want to install. This will vary
depending on where your files are held. You can browse in order to find the files, though if
you are installing from a CD the path name will appear by default. You will also need to fill in
the name of your Oracle Home and the path where you want Oracle to reside. These will
normally be placed in the boxes by default, though you can change them if you wish.

Click the Next button. The next screen will require you to select the product you wish to
install. In this case you should select Oracle Personal Edition 8.1.7.0.0 and then click on the
Next button.
The following screen prompts for the type of installation you require. We would recommend
that you select Typical, which requires 778MB of space to install.

Once the installation type has been selected click on the Next button and, after a while, you
will be presented with the database Identification screen:

You can call your database anything you want to call it. For our purposes we will simply call
it test. The SID will automatically be given the same name as the Global Database Name
(so therefore you should not change the entry in this text field).
Make a note of these names as you will need them later to configure the database to run with
Forms.

Once you have filled in these details click on Next and you will see a summary screen.
Click on Install and the installation process will begin. The installation will take some time so
please be patient.

Once all files have been installed you will see a Configuration Assistant Alert which will
display the Global Database Name and SID. It is strongly recommended that you take a
note of all of these details shown on this screen. Click OK to continue and you should see a
successful installation screen. You can then click Exit.

An http server will automatically start up at the end of installation. Close down this screen
ready to install Developer 6i.
Installation of Developer 6i

Once again you need to run the installer provided with Developer 6i, by double clicking on
the setup.exe application in the Developer folder. This looks a little different from the Oracle
8i installer.

The first screen to appear will ask you to give your Company name – You must fill this in.
You will also be asked for the name (and location) of your oracle home. N.B. This name
MUST be different from the Oracle Home you used for the database

Once you have completed these details, click OK, and you will then be asked which products
you wish to install. Select Oracle Forms Developer. You do not need the forms server as a
restricted version, which is sufficient to run and test forms, will be installed as part of Forms
Developer.

Once you have selected Oracle Forms Developer click OK and you will see a dialogue box
which asks you to select the type of installation you would like:
Select Typical. And then click on OK. You will now be able to select the Forms Server for
testing. Once again, click OK.

A further screen (which is not shown here) will inform you that windows files will be updated –
you should click on Yes.

You will now be asked if you wish to start up various components. You should click on Yes.

On the next screen you should select OK so that components other than web forms will be
installed so click OK
The installation should now continue until you see that Forms has been successfully
installed.
Configuring the database

Now that you have successfully installed both the Oracle 8i database and Forms Developer
6i, you need to configure the database so that they talk to each other. The easiest way to
achieve this is through the Net8 Easy Configuration assistant.

Oracle Net 8 Easy Configuration Assistant.

To access Net8 Easy Configuration, from the Start Menu select All Programs  Oracle for
Windows NT  Oracle Net8 Easy Config and you will see the following screen.

Click on Add New Service and type in a service name. In our example we have used test.
This is an alias name for your database and will be used to access the database on your
local machine (PC) so you may wish to make it meaningful. Then click on Next and you will
see the following screen.

Highlight Bequeath(Local Database) and then select Next.

Now you will see a screen which asks you to type in the SID of the database you wish to
connect to. In our case this was Test. However, you should use whatever SID you used in
the Oracle 8i installation. Once you have done this click Next.

Now you will be given the option to test the service:

Click Done, then on the next screen click Next, and then on the final screen click Finish.
Using SQL and Forms Developer

N.B. It is assumed that you are familiar with SQL and with how to build forms.

However, it is recommended that you test SQL at this point. From the Start Menu, select All
Programs and then Oracle for Windows NT and then SQL Plus 8.0. You should see the
Oracle Logon Screen:

In this you should type the SYSTEM User name with its password. The host string is
required and is the alias name (or Service Name) that you inserted when configuring the
database. On successfully logging on you will see the following SQL screen with the SQL
prompt.

You can now create users and enter SQL commands. It is suggested that you run the
supplied SQL script to create users for your database at this point. When you have done
this, log off, and then log on again as one of the test users supplied to ensure that they are
working correctly.

As a final task within SQL you will need to ensure that the property.sql file is run to
automatically create the tables and data required for students to work through the Units.
To test that Forms Developer is working OK, it is recommended that you start forms, and
create a basic form using the tables supplied in the property.sql file. From the Start Menu,
select All Programs and then Oracle Forms 6i and then Forms Builder. Log on to forms
using one of the supplied test user accounts and the Database Name (Select File from the
Menu and then Connect to do this) and ensure that a form can be created and run
successfully.