How to set the browser window/tab title for Oracle Forms application

When running a Forms application in the browser you normally find Oracle Application Server Forms Services as the title of the browser window or if you use IE 7 or Firefox as the title of the active tab.
This title is set in the file formsweb.cfg and can be changed but it remains a piece of static text.
What if you would like to see something more meaningful like the module name, the user name or something similar ?

Here are the steps to implement it:

1. Modify the base template (for example basejini.html) you are using by adding a JavaScript function
   <script>
   function change_pagetitle(title)
   {
   document.title=title;
   }
   </script>
2. In every form define a trigger after startup (PRE-FORM, WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE) with the following call:
   web.show_document(‘javascript:change_pagetitle(‘||’”‘ || get_application_property(current_form_name) || ‘”‘||’) ‘ ,’_self’)
   In this example the name of the running form will be displayed but you can define other properties too.

With Oracle Forms 11g perhaps there is a  more simple solution based on the new JavaScript API. Let’s see.