How to upgrade/migrate release 11i custom forms to Release 12.

All custom forms that were built and working fine on release 11i are designed and compiled using the Form Builder 6i, while the developer version for R12 is 10G.  

To Upgrade / Migrate:

1.  Download the Forms(.fmb's) and all PLL's(all the PLL from resource folder in AU_TOP) into a Local Machine Folder
2.  Open the custom forms using Forms Developer 10G and connect to DB
3. Compile  and then save them.
4.  Upload the Saved Forms(.fmb's) into the new R12 server(system) in the respective custom paths(paths similar to 11i Server)
5. Compile all the forms to create the .fmx files
6. Open the form and check in R12 instance

If one finds one cannot open them after doing that, make sure to add the Custom_Top entry to the default.env file on the Applications tier.

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