APEX_ITEM.textarea with character count in a SQL Report

This seems like a simple question but where is the function to have APEX draw the textarea but with a maximum number of characters from within a SQL report.
I am building a parameter entry form but the number of parameters is dynamic so my best option was to use a SQL based report. I have looked though the APEX_ITEM package and found the textarea function but there is no options to draw the version of it that limits character count. Is there a way to have it draw that textarea instead of the unlimited one. In my case I have a length limit that I must enforce.

The only solution that comes to my mind is to use Javascript. Define a JS function in page header that will check the length of text in textarea and if it exceeds the limit then it will trim it.
Then, when creating textareas using APEX_ITEM add paramater onChange="callToYourJSFunction()"

Similar Messages

Textare with character counter versus textarea with html editor

Hi
I am using a textarea with html editor. I need to restrict the user to not type more than 25000 characters? Can someone tell me as to how I can do that?
I know that one can set the maximum width for textarea with character counter and it prevents one from typing in more than the maximun specified, but I really need to use the html editor. Thanks.
suni

This is caused by the charCount javascript function, which dynamically sets the text colour to 'red' when the maximum number of characters is entered, but "resets" it to 'black'.
Guess the way to avoid this is to create your own equivalent of the charCount function that captures the actual colour from the DOM and attach it to a textarea using the onchange and onkeyup attributes used in the built-in one.

Textarea w/character counter problem

Hi!
We use a textarea with character counter and limited its max width to 500 chars. If max 500 chars have been inserted, then input stops after 500 chars. That works fine in MS Internet Explorer. Even if you insert CR/LF inputs (ENTER button), the max number of typed in chars will not exceed 500. Using Mozilla Firefox, it is possible to insert many CR/LF, which increases the typed in number by 2. Thus you get e.g. "548 of 500" displayed beyond the textarea. After updating the page in IExplorer even here you get the same counter status displayed. As long as you do not type in the textarea field, the char counter remains as it is and the data can be submitted and finally stored in database.
Qu: Has anybody experienced teh same problem with max chars and CR/LF. Any idea of a workaround prevent "548 of 500" in textareas when typing in CR/LF ?
Br,
Thomas

The CharCount() function that is used by APEX should be updated to contain javascript code similar to the code described here:
http://pikasoftware.com/docs/index.php/Validating_TextArea

Read Only TextAreas with Carriage Return, Line Breaks and Word Wrapping

Hi all,
I know there are a few posts around this subject but I cannot find the answer to the exact problem I have.
I have a page that has a 'TextArea with Character Counter' (4000 Chars) that is conditionally read only based on the users credentials (using the 'Read Only' attributes of the TextArea item).
When the field is editable (not Read Only) everything works fine but when I make the field Read Only I start to have problems:
The first problem is that the Carriage Return and Line Breaks are ignored and the text becomes one continuos block. I have managed to fix this by adding pre and post element text of pre and /pre tags. This has made the Carriage Return and Line Breaks word nicely and dispaly correctly.
However, it has introduced a second problem. Long lines, with no Carriage Returns or Line Breaks, now extend to the far right of the page with no word wrapping, making my page potentially 4000+ characters wide.
How can I get the field to be display only, with recognised Carriage Returns and Line Breaks, and Word Wrapping inside a fixed width of, say, 150 characters?
Many thanks,
Martin

Hi,
Just a cut and paste of yours with the field name changed:
htp.p('<script>');
htp.p('$x("P3_COMMENTS").readonly=true;');
htp.p('</script>');I also have the following in the page HTML Header, could they be conflicting?
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
function setReleaseToProd(wpTypeCode){
//setReleaseToProd($v(this))
var get = new htmldb_Get(null,$v('pFlowId'),'APPLICATION_PROCESS=set_release_to_prod',0);
get.addParam('x01',wpTypeCode);
gReturn = get.get();
if(gReturn) {
$s('P3_RELEASE_TO_PROD',gReturn);
get = null;
</script>I am a long way from knowing much about Javascript (this page code was written by someone else) so all help is much appreciated.
Martin

Custom Popup - Passing values back to Textarea with HTML Editor

I have created a Custom Popup which is to populate a "Textarea with HTML Editor".
I have found that the Custom Popup works fine if the target item is defined as a "Textarea", or "Textarea (auto-height)", or "Textarea w/Character Counter" (although the counter is not automatically updated), or "Textarea w/Character Counter & Spellcheck", or "Textarea with Spell Checker".
However, if the target item is defined as "Textarea with HTML Editor" the Custom Popup does not populate the target item. No error message is produced. If the target item already had data, the data is unchanged.
Is this a known bug?

"Textarea with HTML Editor" is actually two objects on the screen with javascript keeping the data in the two objects in sync as you type in the editor.
You have to populate both objects as you try to syncronize the data from your popup.
I built a screen using dHTML that switches between the HTML Editor and the Text with Spell check and use Javascript to keep the two (actually three objects in sync)
My button that switches from one view to the other uses the following syntax:
javascript:setEqual('P9904_HTML_MESSAGE','P9904_MESSAGE','P9904_MESSAGEDiv');
'P9904_HTML_MESSAGE' is the HTML view of the data with spell check
'P9904_MESSAGE' is the html editor view of the data
'P9904_MESSAGEDiv' is the extra object that Oracle uses for the editor
This is the fuction that keeps the data in sync:
function setEqual(fromObjectID,toObjectID,htmlObjectID)
document.getElementById(toObjectID).value = document.getElementById(fromObjectID).value;
document.getElementById(htmlObjectID).innerHTML=document.getElementById(fromObjectID).value;
I hope this helps.
Michael Snyder

Character Count Variable

Hi,
Is it possible to set the 'chacters remaining' as a variable for Text area with c/count, this is because I have a comments field that is adding to a column that is already populated so the characters remaining will vary depending on what is already in the table
I know its set in the max width of the elemant section but you cant seem to put a variable name in there.
Thanks ANDY

hey andy--
you can't currently refer to session state values from the maxWidth field as you're finding. i've logged that as an issue, but you can work out your "characters remaining" request for now by calling our charCount jscript function from somewhere you can reference session state. to do so, take a look at the html that's generated when you use those "Textarea w/Character Counter" item types. you'll see that the form element has a jscript call in it that looks something like...
onKeyUp="javascript:charCount('P3_MY_TEXAREA',255,'tAreaCtr8','tAreaMax8','theBlock8');" onChange="javascript:charCount('P3_MY_TEXAREA',255,'tAreaCtr8','tAreaMax8','theBlock8');"
...and you'll see a div and span combo right after it that looks something like this...
<div style="font-size:8pt;visibility:hidden;" id="theBlock8"><span id="tAreaCtr8"></span> of <span id="tAreaMax8"></span></div>
...so you could put code similar to this into a regular TextArea item to call our charCount function while passing it the dynamic value. to do so, you'd put your div/span combo in the "Post Element Text" section of your TextArea item. you'd then want to call charCount by passing it the dynamic value. unfortunately, you can't just put that call into the "HTML Form Element Attributes" because that field currently doesn't support session state references. instead, you'd have to put in a call to a function of yours that calls our charCount. so a call like this...
onKeyUp="javascript:callCount();" onChange="javascript:callCount();"
...just worked in my test case. i defined my callCount funtion in the "HTML Header" field of the page-level atttributes screen as...
<script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">
function callCount(){
charCount('P3_MY_TEXAREA',&P3_X.,'tAreaCtr8','tAreaMax8','theBlock8');
</script>
...and, as you can see, it just calls callCount while passing it my dynamic P3_X value instead of the fixed maxWidth one. having said all this, it's still our recommendation to not directly call the javascript functions that ship with htmldb. we reserve the right to change how those "internal" calls are implemented. to play it absolutely safe, you'd be better off to copy our charCount function into your app (presumably in a .js file) and call that copy using the same work around i specified above.
hope this helps,
raj

Count( ) function in BIP Report

Hello,
Can someone please help me with my count( ) function in BIP reports? I have this code in my RTF template below that only count 1 per ssImageType
<?xdofx:if (ssStatus='Closed') and (ssGroup='EDS OPS') then count((/ssAction=/ssImageType))?><?end-if?>
The undesired result is coming up below:
Image Type A = 1
Image Type A = 1
Image Type A = 1
Image Type B = 1
Where we wanted it to come up as
Image Type A = 3
Image Type B = 1
Image Type C = 0
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

What is the item that you want to count? I don't understand what you are trying to do here: count((/ssAction=/ssImageType))?
If status is closed and ssGroup = EDS OPS, and ssAction = ssImageType, then you want to count the number of records?
If you want to, send me the rtf and xml file to [email protected] and I can take a look. Send me the exact specification..
Thanks,
Bipuser

Textarea character count feature quirk/bug

Apex 4.1.1.00.23
I've found a quirky thing about the textarea page item. The character count feature counts carriage-return-line-feed (CRLF) as one character, as you would expect it to, but it's stored as two characters in the database because of the way Windows handles new lines.
So, aside from using clob columns or explaining to users how Windows handles CRLF characters, any thoughts on how one might manage this quirk?

>
Please update your forum profile with a real handle instead of "970995".
Apex 4.1.1.00.23
I've found a quirky thing about the textarea page item. The character count feature counts carriage-return-line-feed (CRLF) as one character, as you would expect it to, but it's stored as two characters in the database because of the way Windows handles new lines.
So, aside from using clob columns or explaining to users how Windows handles CRLF characters, any thoughts on how one might manage this quirk?Assuming the problem is ORA-06502 when the counter shows less than the expected limit, but CR/LF pairs actually push it over?
Create a Post-Submit Computation on the item that replaces CR/LF with LF...
replace(:p1_text_area, chr(13) || chr(10), chr(10))

Spry textarea character count not working in IE9

Hi.
I'm using DW CS5 for a ColdFusion form with a textarea field. The spry character count works in every browser but IE9. Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!

This feature will not work in IE9 and IE10.
The problem is two-fold
a) The Copyright notice shows 2006 as the last Spry update. This was around the time of IE7
b) Microsoft tends to go off on a tangent where every release of IE behaves differently
As always, we are in the hands of the Adobes and Microsofts.

A character counter in a TextArea

Our friend Mário is requesting the following:
"I would like to create a character counter in a TextArea with real time actualization, I only could do it after call an action (button), I would like that this happens in real time with the user typing and the counter being refreshed automatically."
If somebody can help him, please post.
Marcelo

Hi Mario,
what u would like is a Javascript function which monitors whitespaces and determines to add a counter for each line on the enter key
it would be activated onclick and on change of the control
with respect,
amit

Report TEXTAREA character counter

A textarea field has a "Maximum Width" and a Character Counter.
How can I create Character Counter for a textarea field in a report (SQL Query (updateable report))?
Edited by: Rob-9100-NL on 28-jun-2012 4:13

Denes,
My little bit different function: (one parameter less and no longer extra field for length in the select):
function f_set_counter(pConterID,pTextId,pMaxLength)
    var pLength = $x(pTextId).innerHTML.length;
    if (pLength>pMaxLength)
     {alert('Dit veld mag niet meer dan '+pMaxLength+' tekens bevatten.')
      $x(pTextId).value=$x(pBron).value.substring(0,pMaxLength)
      {$x(pConterID).innerHTML = pMaxLength}
    else
     {$x(pConterID).innerHTML = pLength}
}In the HTML Expression of the text field:
<textarea id="f06_#ROWNUM#" wrap="VIRTUAL" cols="80"
rows="5" name="f06" autocomplete="off"
onkeyup="f_set_counter('f06_#ROWNUM#_CHAR_COUNTER', 'f06_#ROWNUM#',500)"
#PA_AANTEKENINGEN#</textarea><br/>
<span id="f06_#ROWNUM#_CHAR_COUNTER"></span>
van
<span>500</span>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
f_set_counter('f06_#ROWNUM#_CHAR_COUNTER', 'f06_#ROWNUM#', 500);
</script>Now I do get the "0 van 500" on a new record.
Regards,
Rob
Edited by: Rob-v-M-Gn-Nl on 26-jul-2012 4:29

Display SQL listings only once with a count next to the number

I am building a vacation rental website (like there needs to
be another one LOL) I am building my SQL database right now but i
believe it will be easier if we display it better. What I want to
do is display the rental listings only once in a list. Example:
Listing 12345 with pool in Orlando Florida
Listing 34567 on golf community in Orlando Florida
Listing 98765 Waterfront in Ft Lauderdal Florida
I want a page to show before the listings so you would see
Ft. Lauderdale (1)
Orlando (2)
When you click Orlando (2) then you would just get just
Orlando listing to make navigating more simple.
You can see a sample on
http://www.vacationrentals.com/vacation-rentals/Florida.html
(hope the sample link is ok to use)
Thanks for the Help

That's a simple GROUP BY with a COUNT. Take a few minutes and
familiarize
yourself with the essential capabilities of SQL - it may even
give you some
ideas. :)
www.sqlcourse.com
www.sqlcourse2.com
"rustykat" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ei63ds$dv9$[email protected]..
>I am building a vacation rental website (like there needs
to be another one
> LOL) I am building my SQL database right now but i
believe it will be
> easier
> if we display it better. What I want to do is display
the rental listings
> only
> once in a list. Example:
>
> Listing 12345 with pool in Orlando Florida
> Listing 34567 on golf community in Orlando Florida
> Listing 98765 Waterfront in Ft Lauderdal Florida
>
> I want a page to show before the listings so you would
see
>
> Ft. Lauderdale (1)
> Orlando (2)
>
> When you click Orlando (2) then you would just get just
Orlando listing to
> make navigating more simple.
>
> You can see a sample on
>
http://www.vacationrentals.com/vacation-rentals/Florida.html
(hope the
> sample
> link is ok to use)
>
> Thanks for the Help
>
>

The character count when sending a message doesn't work with the new iOS 5.

Hi,
After I upgraded to the new iOS 5, the message counter no longer appears. I've gone into the settings to verify that it is turned on. I've turned it off and then back on. I've rebooted the phone, but to no avail. Has anyone else encountered this new "feature"?
Thanks,
Allan

The only way I can get character count back is to disable both iMessage and MMS. I agree it is annoying. iMessage only works between iOS 5 devices, and since the whole world does not use Apple products, it's not like I still won't be sending plain old SMS text messages to people. If you type more then the SMS character limit, AT&T still happily sends it, their servers just truncate it, so the character count feature is hardly an outdated or pointless feature.
I have been sending fewer and fewer texts though anyway, and using email instead. but this just pushes me further away from texting. Most of my work texts are to blackberry users, so no iMessaging with them, but having to go back and forth into settings to enable/disable iMessage means I will likely just leave iMessage off all the time anyway.

Message application don't show character count - Iphone 4S with iOS7

Why my iPhone 4S upgraded to iOS 7, don't show character count whwen I type a message?
Thank you for the answer.

I have iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s and had the same problem but was able to "solve" it. I turned the character count on in settings like mentioned in the replies above but didn't see character count working. Then I finally noticed it working on a text I was sending. The count appeared in a very tiny light gray font just above the "send" button for sending a message. It is very faint and hard to see when it appears. It'll show like "27/160" for example for 27 characters typed. And the real kicker is that it doesn't appear as soon as you start composing a text. For me the count would appear after about 30 characters had been typed. Sometimes it appears after 27 characters, sometimes after 32. I can't figure out the logic behind when it appears, it's odd.
But if you changed your setting to have the count on & don't see it, there's a chance that it's probably working and is difficult to see & only appears after a certain number of characters have been typed.

Error while using APEX_ITEM.TEXTAREA()

Hello All
I am using Apex, quite a few days now, but had a problem with APEX_ITEM.TEXTAREA. When I input more than 2000 characters in my Textarea it is giving an error of 404 as follows:
Not found
The requested URL /apex/wwv_flow.accept was not found on this server
I really didn't get where I am making a mistake. This text area input is a feedback which I am using in a Update statement inside a process after submit.
Anything else if you needed then please let me know...
Bhushan
Edited by: user8737418 on Dec 10, 2009 6:05 AM
Edited by: user8737418 on Dec 10, 2009 6:06 AM

Hello All,
I am still hunting for the solution, but this time I will be more specific about the error, As I mentioned earlier I am getting an error of "404 Not Found" whenever I try to insert 2000 characters in an APEX_ITEM.TEXTAREA() which I am passing to an UPDATE statement using APEX_APPLICATION.G_Fxx(i).
Now to get the details of this "404 Not Found" error I set the "error-style" attribute of APEX DAD to a value "DebugStyle" using DBMS_EPG.SET_DAD_ATTRIBUTE() procedure (for more information you can refer to PLSQL Package and Types 11g b28419.pdf). By setting this attribute I got the detailed error as:
ORA-06550: line 6, column 34:
PLS-00302: component 'VC_ARR29' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 6, column 6:
PL/SQL: Item ignored
ORA-06550: line 33, column 2:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or malformed
ORA-06550: line 33, column 2:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06550: line 34, column 2:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or malformed
ORA-06550: line 34, column 2:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06550: line 35, column 2:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or malformed
ORA-06550: line 35, column 2:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06550: line 36, column 188:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or malformed
ORA-06550: line 36, column 3:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
DAD name: apex
PROCEDURE : wwv_flow.accept
URL : http://XDB HTTP Server:8080/apex/wwv_flow.accept
PARAMETERS :
===========
P_FLOW_ID:
265
P_FLOW_STEP_ID:
30
P_INSTANCE:
4162584444600813
P_PAGE_SUBMISSION_ID:
7894031068765644
P_REQUEST:
SUBMIT
ENVIRONMENT:
============
PLSQL_GATEWAY=WebDb
GATEWAY_IVERSION=2
SERVER_SOFTWARE=Oracle Embedded PL/SQL Gateway/10.2.0.1.0
GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
SERVER_PORT=8080
SERVER_NAME=XDB HTTP Server
REQUEST_METHOD=POST
QUERY_STRING=
PATH_INFO=/wwv_flow.accept
SCRIPT_NAME=/apex
REMOTE_HOST=
REMOTE_ADDR=192.168.1.11
SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_PROTOCOL=tcp
REMOTE_USER=ANONYMOUS
ORACLE_SSO_USER=
OSSO_IDLE_TIMEOUT_EXCEEDED=
OSSO_USER_GUID=
HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH=7932
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
HTTP_HOST=192.168.1.2:8080
HTTP_ACCEPT=text/html
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-us
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1
HTTP_COOKIE=WWV_CUSTOM-F_1787018490882782_265=7D367A6CA84F13A0; ORA_WWV_USER=225BC5AC3766601D; ORA_WWV_REMEMBER_UN=BS:proto1; LOGIN_USERNAME_COOKIE=pavan.bhojwani; ORA_WWV_ATTRIBUTE_PAGE=4301%2C%23HH; ORA_WWV_R1=%23ALL; ORA_WWV_R2=%23ALL; ORA_WWV_R3=%23ALL
HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE=
HTTP_REFERER=http://192.168.1.2:8080/apex/f?p=265:30:4162584444600813::NO:::
HTTP_SOAPACTION=
HTTP_ORACLE_ECID=
HTTP_ORACLE_CACHE_VERSION=
HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=
WEB_AUTHENT_PREFIX=
DAD_NAME=apex
DOC_ACCESS_PATH=docs
DOCUMENT_TABLE=wwv_flow_file_objects$
PATH_ALIAS=
REQUEST_CHARSET=AL32UTF8
REQUEST_IANA_CHARSET=UTF-8
SCRIPT_PREFIX=
HTTP_IF_MATCH=
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL=
SOAP_BODY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE_CLASS=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE_ORIENTATION=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE_MAXDOCSIZE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_ORIG_ACCEPT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_ORIG_USER_AGENT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCALE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_NAME=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_DISPLAYNAME=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_USERKIND=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_AUTHKIND=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_DEVICEID=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_ADDRESSLINE1=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_ADDRESSLINE2=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_ADDRESSLASTLINE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_BLOCK=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_CITY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_COMPANYNAME=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_COUNTY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_STATE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_POSTALCODE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_POSTALCODEEXT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_COUNTRY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_TYPE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_X=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_Y=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_SERVICE_HOME_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_SERVICE_PARENT_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_HOME_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_MODULE_CALLBACK_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_MODULE_CALLBACK_LABEL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_USER=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_SUBID=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_AUTH=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_DEVICE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_LANG=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_ENCRYPT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_ASSERT_US
Any help is appreciated...
Bhushan

APEX_ITEM.textarea with character count in a SQL Report

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for