Primary key in new form wizard

I tried to create a form with report using the New Form Wizards. But it seems always hidden the primary key and if I make changes to the generated form or report, I normally end up with broken pages. I found the forms in the example application are against tables with sequence backed primary key. But all our tables are not use that approach. Does anyone know any work around?
Another unrelated question about LOV? It seems the wizard require two different column to be used. If I want a list based on one column (like show all the possible value of one column), how can I do that?

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I tried to create a form with report using the New Form Wizards. But it seems always hidden the primary key and if I make changes to the generated form or report, I normally end up with broken pages. I found the forms in the example application are against tables with sequence backed primary key. But all our tables are not use that approach. Does anyone know any work around?
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<raj>
i just created a "Form with Report" and a "Form on a Table or View" using the wizards on htmldb.oracle.com which i accessed a few different ways, and they seemed to consistently expose the primary key of my table in the form. if you're referring to your primary key column in your report being rendered as an edit icon, you can change that from the report column attributes screen for your primary key column. just use the popup LOV for the "Link Text" field in the "Column Link" region of that screen to select the primary key value from your query rather than the html image tag that's there by default. also, if you'd like to, let us know what tweaks you're making to your generated forms/reports that result in errors. we should be able to help you with those, too.
i think the last part of your question above asks about using the wizards against tables that don't have sequence-backed primary keys. if so, i just did that on htmldb.oracle.com w/o issues. i might not be understanding your issue correctly, but it seems like you shouldn't have problems doing this. if so, though, please provide much more detail. we did have some issues with this stuff (and with the primary key column not being exposed as you mentioned above) in some earlier versions of html db. is it possible that you're not running of the most current version: 1.4.2.00.21 ?
</raj>
<zq>
Another unrelated question about LOV? It seems the wizard require two different column to be used. If I want a list based on one column (like show all the possible value of one column), how can I do that?
</zq>
<raj>
html db likes you to define your LOV queries using both a value to be displayed and a value to be returned to be submitted. if you'd like these values to be the same, simply select the same value twice from your table (being sure to alias the columns, which is always a good habit). so if you want to show and return all values of ename from emp, you could define your LOV query to be something like...
select ename my_display_val, ename my_return_val from emp order by 1
...and that'd do it.
</raj>
hope this helps,
raj

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