Apex processes question

Question

APEX - 4
DB version - 10g
Web server architecture - OHS
Browser - IE8
Theme - 5
Hello
I have audit fields on my records, example "last_changed_by" and "last_changed_date".
I created an "On submit and before compulation" process and set the values as
:P27_CHANGE_BY_USERID := NVL(v('APP_USER'), USER);
:P27_CHANGE_BY_DATE := sysdate;
but when I save the changes they do not make it to the database, there are a few other processes, so I created another process just to get output and gave it a sequence number of 100. higher than all the other processes so it should run last. :P27_CHANGE_BY_USERID still showed the value I had set it to, but the update did not make it to the database.
what else could be happening after the last process and before the commit (where ever that happens) where I could be losing my value.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

Answer 1

Hi musgrach,
Why don't you try it in the Default section of the item attributes itself:
Default Value:
Default Value Type: PL/SQL Expression
OR
Write a Item computation that computes these item values.
(which will execute before your insert into table process)
Hope it helps!
Regards,
Kiran