Apex Form - how to enter primary key value manually?

Hi
Whenever I am creating Apex form using wizard, it asks me to specify trigger/sequence/pl/sql function for populating primary key value.
However, if I want to specify primary key myself (ie. not auto generated number), how I can specify that?
Thanx

Hello,
By Yourself you mean : by hand or by a pl/sql?
If you say by trigger, the system doesn't care about what number is send. So you can give it "manually"
May I ask what is the reason of that?
Cheers,
Arnaud

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--- Aside: ------------
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