I have an Interactive Report which includes a select list of 'yes' and 'no' for a box labelled 'DAS submitted'. Is it possible to use the dynamic action for select list that when the user selects 'yes', another text field appears which allows the user to input the 'DAS ID', but stays hidden if user selects 'no'?
I have tried playing around with the action buttons but can't seem to link it properly. As well as trying to follow these instructions (https://community.oracle.com/tech/developers/discussion/3703262/how-to-hide-text-field-item-based-on-true-or-false-cases-in-oracle-apex) but cannot find them clear enough from step 2. I am using Oracle Apex 22.2
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I am using APEX 21.2.
The help says that "Display Only" Items do not store session state value and text fields with "Disabled" attribute set to yes do. But I tried to create an after header computation and set the value of a display only item and it worked. Is it wrong information or am I missing something?
Disabled
Specify whether this item is disabled, which prevents end users from changing the value.
A disabled text item still displays with the same HTML formatting, unlike an item type of Display Only, which removes the HTML formatting. Disabled text items are part of page source, which enables their session state to be evaluated. Conversely, display only items are not stored in session state.
I tried to create an after header computation and set the value of a display only item and it worked
Why wouldn't it work? It is you (a developer) who set it using a computation (which works), but end user can't modify its value as it is set to be display only so - users can just look at item's value.
A computation before rendering is always possible, that has nothing to do with session state. This is about how the item behaves on page submit.
With the "Display Only" item type you can control its behaviour on submit. Behaviour is the same for "Text Field" items that have the "Disabled" property set to on.
I did a quick test with a form on the EMP sample data set. Create a after header computation of type expression :P1_SAL + 1.
Test 1: Setting "set on page submit" on. The form renders with the salary item increased by 1. When page is saved, the new salary is saved for the record
Test 2: Setting "set on page submit" off. The form renders with the salary item increased by 1. When page is saved, the new salary is NOT saved for the record
Where did you see this help text ? I don't see anything about session state.
I have a Master Detial with 2 interactive grids.
I would like to be able to genrate a link based on user input....is that at all possible?
To give a simple example:
Lets say I have website like https://www.google.com/
I would like a user to enter anything...for example "Prague"
Once this is entered, I would like APEX to generate a URL from it to result in: https://www.google.com/Prague
Now I know that Google search does not work like that, but I need that sort of mechanism for our internal company app. Is this possible?
Ideally , once the grid is saved the link in the Interactive grid only said "Prague" but if I click it, it would direct me to https://www.google.com/Prague
This can be achieved using the "JavaScript Initialization Code" attribute of the column.
Example on the EMP sample table (*). Functionality is that when a user enters a value in the ENAME column, it is converted to a google search url.
Create an editable IG on table EMP
Set the type of column ENAME to "Text Field"
Set "Javascript Initialization Code" for column "ENAME" to
function(config) {
config.defaultGridColumnOptions = {
cellTemplate: '&ENAME.'
};
return config;
}
Notice that the column now is a link. A user will have to open in new window to get the actual link value, since clicking the column will active the edit mode.
(*) Sample dataset can be installed using SQL Workshop > UTILITIES > Sample Data Sets > EMP/DEPT
yes, you can let user enter the value and by creating a dynamic action(choose the when attribute as whatever suits you) you can take that value and on another column, use that column as &Columnvalue. for example and concatanate it by using to base url using ||
I have a form with items P1_APP and P1_USER.
P.S. P1_USER is select list.
Display John
Return 1
Display Andy
Return 2
I need to disable when user selects John.
When P1_USER = 'John', P1_APP should get disabled which is a multi select list.
I created dynamic action on P1_APP, True Action= Disable,Affected element P1_APP
Client condition : Item =Value
Item= P1_USER
Value= John
However this is not working.
I have used similar logic to disable interactive grid items and was able to do so. Why is this not working for form?
EDIT: In Value now i am putting 1 which is return value for John.
However when i select John. It disables P1_App upon clicking. But remains disabled even when i choose Andy.
This works for me using the following configuration.
Create form and report on EMP - everyone has access to that sample data, it is a good idea to post questions based on that.
In the form P3_DEPTNO is a select list with source
SELECT d.dname, d.deptno FROM dept d
Add a page item to my form P3_APP. This is a select list with "Allow multi selection" enabled. Select list has 2 static values.
Create a dynamic action on change of P3_DEPTNO.
Client side condition: Item = Value
Item: P3_DEPTNO
Value: 30 (note that this is the return value for SALES, not display value)
add true action of "Disable", affected item P3_APP
Click true action and select "Create Opposite Action". Save.
When I run this it work. Selecting SALES in the select list disables the item P3_APP and selecting something else enables it.
I have an interactive report and a form associated to it. After creating a new entry using the form, my end-users want to put the focus on that specific new entry in the interactive report (it's a lot of entrys, and today they need to scroll down a lot to see the new one).
They also want the same funcionality when updating a row of the report.
How can I do this the correct way in APEX 5.1?
Here is one aproach based on EMP table in apex.oracle.com Create interactive report with edit form. In my case this is page 6 for report and page 7 for edit. Create one hiden item on page six (P6_EMPNO). Add case to your query so in my example it's look something like:
select "ROWID",
"EMPNO",
"ENAME",
"JOB",
"MGR",
"HIREDATE",
"SAL",
"COMM",
"DEPTNO"
from "#OWNER#"."EMP"
ORDER BY CASE WHEN EMPNO = :P6_EMPNO THEN 1 ELSE 2 END, EMPNO
I'm sorting result by EMPNO.
Choose P6_EMPNO in Page Items to Submit section. Go to page 7, select branch(Go to page 6)and click on Target In set items section choose P6_EMPNO and for target &P7_EMPNO.
Now every time you go to page 7, the value of hiden item will be the EMPNO from page 7 and it will apear on top of the region. You can use jQuery to highlight the row and put some validations to update P6_EMPNO only when some data was changed.
I hope this can help you.
easy.
You don't even have to create any additional page items. Change your form DML so that it returns into the primary key page item holder. Then Create a process after your DML process but before the reset cache process. Use APEX_IR API to reset pagination on your IR page, and then set an interactive report filter based on the primary key page item you returned the new PK into. Check the documentation for exact usage.
Apex_IR.reset_report to reset the report pagination and remove any filters.
Apex_ir.add_filter to add a filter = to new primary key
Interesting question, another solution:
Create a item in your report page, something like P3_ANCHOR
Add data-anchor="#< YOUR_COLUMN_ID >#" to your report link attribute
Configure your form page to return the created/modified item id to item P3_ANCHOR in your report page.
Create a Dynamic Action on report page
Action: Execute Javascript Code
Code:
var container = $('body'),
scrollTo = $('[data-anchor="'+$v('P3_ANCHOR')+'"]');
container.animate({
scrollTop: scrollTo.offset().top - $(document).scrollTop()
}, 2000);
Simple solution:
Sort your report descending so that the last created ID will be the first in the IR
This is a very odd question but i wondered whether it was possible to trigger a process that runs an SQL UPDATE when the user leaves this specific page, either by clicking on the breadcrumb, tabs or back button?
I did setup the process to run on the 'Back' button; however i ran into the problem of: What if s/he clicks on the breadcrumb or a tab instead.
I have searched the net and posting this question was a last resort. I wondered if anyone can point me in the correct direction?
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Page 1:
Includes a text field and a button. The user enters the category into the text field and clicks on the button to proceed to the next page. The button passes the value in the text field to a text field on Page 2.
Page 2:
Two regions on the page. One region holds information about the category - Category name from the previous page, category description, and the category revision number (which is what i'm trying to get working). The second region is a report that pulls the item name and number that are listed under the category in the category text field. A 'View' link is used on the report to load the edit page for the specific item selected. The 'View' link passes the 'category name' (from the category text field) and the 'item number' from the report to page 3.
Page 3
Two regions are used, first region: Lists the Item number which came from page 2 and name of the item (which i use a simple query to retrieve). In the second region: A report is used with two columns: a list of item properties in column 1, and a text field next to each item property in column 2 to hold the value that can be updated. The 'Apply Changes' button has some PlSql behind which looks for changes and updates where required. It updates the relevant fields that have changed, and it then takes the user back to Page 2 (Page showing user the items listed for the category intitally entered).
I cant increase the category revision on the 'apply changes' button on page 3 because the user may complete edits for items under the same category. So i dont know where i can increase the category revision by 1 per vist to a category. P.s I already increment the revision number for each item by 1 if the info has been changed using the 'apply changes' button on page 3.
One way of doing this is by updating the session state of the page items (without submitting the page as normal) via ajax and by calling an Application Process which updates the table, when called by a javascript onbeforeunload.
Create an Application Process to fire On Demand, named UpdatePageXOnExit or something. In the PL/SQL block of that Application Process, use SQL update commands with the item state of each item on the page that you wish to update; something like the following:
BEGIN
UPDATE table_name SET col1 = :PX_ITEM_1, col2 = :PX_ITEM_2, col3 = :PX_ITEM3, col4 = :PX_ITEM_4, col5 = PX_ITEM_5
WHERE (condition... I would suggest ROWIDs to simplify changes to the
fields of the PK; otherwise you will have to create additional
page items for each field of the PK, then set those items to
the values of the PK when the page loads using a before
header page process, and then use those values in this where
clause like this: where col1 = :PX_ORIGINAL_PK_FIELD_1 AND col2 =
:PX_ORIGINAL_PK_FIELD_2 );
END ;
Go to the page settings for that particular page, and in the JavaScript: Execute On Page Load section, write something like the following:
window.onbeforeunload = updateOnExit;
And in the JavaScript Function and Global Variables Declaration, write something like the following:
function updateOnExit() {
var get = new htmldb_Get(null,&APP_ID.,'APPLICATION_PROCESS=UpdatePageXOnExit',&APP_PAGE_ID.);
get.add('PX_ITEM_1',$x('PX_ITEM_1').value)
get.add('PX_ITEM_2',$x('PX_ITEM_2').value)
get.add('PX_ITEM_3',$x('PX_ITEM_3').value)
get.add('PX_ITEM_4',$x('PX_ITEM_4').value)
get.add('PX_ITEM_5',$x('PX_ITEM_5').value)
gReturn = get.get();
get = null;
// Comment out the following line or not, as per the note in the following paragraph
return 'Are you sure you would like to leave the page?';
}
This last piece is the AJAX that updates the session states of the page items on the page that have been changed on the user's end but that haven't been uploaded to the servers end which normally occurs during page submission. Note: If you comment out the return statement, than there will be no warning box that will allow the user to stay on the page. If that is what you prefer, go for it. If you chose to use the warning box, the ajax will execute the page process even if the user chooses to stay on the page.