Form on a Table with Report - Auto Number

Hi,
Scenario:
I want to create "Form on a Table with Report" that should allow my users to add records...
Steps and issues
I created a table in MS Access with a field called "TRACKING_NO" as type Auto Number and made it a primary key... I was planning to use it to link Report to Form
When I uploaded the table to Oracle it changed the type to varchar2... can you please advice how to change it back to Auto number...?
and will it work if my user add a record to the table (using APEX built in option to create a record)...?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
this is what I would do.
1. Upload the table from MS Access, lets call it TAB_A
2. Using SQL-Workshop get the DDL (SQL statement) for this table
3. Change any names and/or datatypes as required
4. Create a new table with this DDL, lets call it TAB_O
5. Copy the contents from TAB_A to TAB_O (e.g. INSERT INTO TAB_O (id, colx, coly) SELECT TO_NUMBER(tracking_no), col1, col2 FROM TAB_A;)
6. Create a sequence which starts with the last PK + 1 of table TAB_A
7. Add a trigger to TAB_O to use this sequence to populate it's PK
By the way, working with APEX requires a solid understanding of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, regardless of what anyone says, even Oracle.
Regards Garry

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HI all
I have a page type : form on a table with report .
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in addition , when new user entered there are few processes that give him the USER_NAME_DB automatically by executing a functions etc.
in a few weeks , new table need to be active instead SLIKA_USERS table
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     "USER_F_NAME" VARCHAR2(10) CONSTRAINT "USER_F_NAME_NN" NOT NULL ENABLE,
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      CONSTRAINT "USER_ID_NUM_UNQ" UNIQUE ("USER_ID_NUM") ENABLE,
      CONSTRAINT "USER_NAME_DB_UNQ" UNIQUE ("USER_NAME_DB") ENABLEproblem :
before inserting new user to table SLIKA_USERS_NEW i need to check if the user_name alreay exists in SLIKA_USERS table .
i need to take all his details and move them to the new table , in addition as you can see , i need to complete some details like the USER_ID_NUM,USER_F_NAME,USER_L_NAME.
of curse if this user doesn't exist in the slika_users i need to create him as new user.
i thought about trigger , unfortunately it won't be a good idea since i don't have in table slika_users
the USER_ID_NUM" ,     "USER_F_NAME" , "USER_L_NAME"
another problem is : even if i will manage to overcome the problem of moving data from table slika_users .
to slika_users_new ,
to manage it after the tables will switch won't be easy though.
in a few weeks , the slika_users need to rename to slika_users_old .
and slika_users_new will rename to slika_users,
that is a necessary step because lots of pages in the application , relate to the table slika_users ,
in addition if new user need to create i still need to look if it's exists in the SLIKA_USERS_OLD (after i'll switch between the tables )
please give idea how to overcome those problems
Thanks In Advanced
Naama

Hello,
Basically it can be done, but you'll need to do it manually. You can create your basic report, and define two link columns, each to the proper form, which will include the desired columns.
The problem I see in this kind of solution is a great risk for data integrity, especially in a multi-user environment. It will take time to update both forms, and in between, the table record will contains inconsistent data – the first columns can contains data updated by the first form, but the rest of the columns will still contains an old data.
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Sorry to ask response so late. I had no time to get back to that issue before.
Regarding the triggers, I can make it work for the update, but not the insert.
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I already skip the ROWID when inserting to the view STATUS, but I cannot figure out what is wrong when inserting a new record to that view.
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0.00233
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Andy,
It's a bug, all right. Thanks for the detailed problem description. We'll fix it when we can.
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Dario - The "create application from existing table"
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