How to link an item to a form, passing the item name as a param?

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I have a custom item type named drawing (based on a file type) on a portal page.

My goal is to have the URL link on an item, link to a form that will display metadata about the drawing item. The meta data is in an existing table in our Oracle9i DB.

I'd like to know how to capture the name of the item, pass it to the form in order to query for the rest. Can anyone help?