Ajax Report Pull APEX_ITEM.DATE_POPUP issue

Hi all,
I am trying to use something similar to Carl's Ajax Region Pull
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:48:1222899842354681::NO:::
So I have 2 pages. My LOV on Page 4 has an onchange event to trigger an Ajax call to page 5 which then displays the results in a region on Page 4.
Now I am using apex_item calls to allow entry into the report on page 5. Problem is, when I have a date entry item where I have to use apex_item.date_popup then I get a javascript error similar to "genCalf01_0 is not defined" when I click on the date icon to popup the calendar.
On my instance at work this error is only with the second date field but the first is fine. However on apex.oracle.com, both date icons trigger the problem.
Any ideas? I have put a sample on http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=38748:4:2006073124664781:::::
workspace: abots
username: test
password: apex_test.
Cheers
Kofi

Hello,
Using the built in form items pulled from ajax can cause alot of problems and is discouraged. In most cases when you pull a form item from one page into another page it will break your page when you try and submit it.
Now with the date pickers there is an even bigger issue because there is also embedded individual javascript's associated with each datepicker and when you pull them into the page the page DOM will not pick them up.
Regards,
Carl
blog : http://carlback.blogspot.com/
apex examples : http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:5

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Thanks,
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I am using apex_item.date_popup for a custom tabular form.
When I load the form with the default sysdate it works ok. However when the user submits an invalid date I get: ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string.
Ex: apex_item.date_popup (2, NULL, ac.my_date, :f_date_format, LENGTH (:f_date_format), LENGTH (:f_date_format),NULL)
Where f_date_format is 'DD-MON-YYYY'...
If I enter 'abc' in this field and click submit, my validations find that it is an invalid date, so I reload the page with ac.my_date is the value that the user entered (ex: 'abc'). This will cause the error...
I understand why the error occurs, but is it correct that it does happen? Any ways around this?
Thank you.

Hi Scott,
I found the work around. I'll try to make this code more readable later on.
1: Create a HTML region with the following code:
Note: F02 is the "Column" for my date field:
<script type="text/javascript">
function genCalF02(pRowNum,pYyyy,pMm,pSecurityGroupId)
elemArrLen = 0;
if (document.forms[0].f02.length) {
elemArrLen = document.forms[0].f02.length;
elemArrLen = '&F_DATE_FORMAT.'.length;
pMm = '' + pMm;
if (pMm.length == 1)
pMm = '0' + pMm;
w = open("wwv_flow_utilities.show_as_popup_calendar" +
"?p_element_index=" + escape('f02' + '['.substr(0,elemArrLen) + pRowNum + ']'.substr(0,elemArrLen)) +
"&p_form_index=" + escape('0') +
"&p_date_format=" + escape('&F_DATE_FORMAT.') +
"&p_application_format=" + escape('Y') +
"&p_bgcolor=" + escape('#666666') +
"&p_dd=" + escape('') +
"&p_hh=" + escape('') +
"&p_mi=" + escape('') +
"&p_pm=" + escape('') +
"&p_yyyy=" + escape(pYyyy) +
"&p_lang=" + escape('') +
"&p_application_id=" + escape('&APP_ID.') +
"&p_security_group_id=" + escape(pSecurityGroupId) +
"&p_mm=" + escape(pMm),
"winLov",
"Scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=258,height=210");
// TODO "?p_element_index=" + escape('f02' + '['.substr(0,elemArrLen) + pRowNum.substr(0,elemArrLen) + ']'.substr(0,elemArrLen)) +
if (w.opener == null)
w.opener = self;
w.focus();
</script>
In you're query (or how ever else you are calling apex_item.date_popup)... use something like this instead:
WHEN is_valid_date(my_date) = 'Y' THEN
apex_item.text (2,
my_date,
LENGTH (:f_date_format),
LENGTH (:f_date_format),
NULL,
NULL,
NULL
) || '<a href="javascript:genCalF02(' || (ROWNUM - 1) || ',' || TO_CHAR (TO_DATE (my_date, :f_date_format), 'YYYY') || ','
|| TO_CHAR (TO_DATE (my_date, :f_date_format), 'MM') || ',' || apex_custom_auth.get_security_group_id
|| ')"><img src="/i/asfdcldr.gif" align="middle" alt="Calendar"/></a>'
ELSE
apex_item.text (2,
my_date,
LENGTH (:f_date_format),
LENGTH (:f_date_format),
NULL,
NULL,
NULL
) || '<a href="javascript:genCalF02(' || (ROWNUM - 1) || ',' || TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'YYYY') || ','
|| TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'MM') || ',' || apex_custom_auth.get_security_group_id
|| ')"><img src="/i/asfdcldr.gif" align="middle" alt="Calendar"/></a>'
END as xxx
This creates the text box with a date popup window beside it.
Again, this is not pretty code which can probably be done in a function etc.
Hope this helps anyone else who has the same issue.
Martin

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Jun: 5,
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Oct: 9,
Nov: 10,
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FROM
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reg.
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Edited by: J3v16 on 20-apr-2011 23:43

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