Attaching employees with department?

Question

I need to build the form according to following conditions if HR schema,
on the upper level i need one filed that is for department filed in an LOV, where one department can be selected,
and after that we have one tabular form in which we have list of employees, now these employees are not attached to any department. I also have created an check box against every record of employee, now i want to attach multiple employees to that selected department with the help of that check box. I mean that if i check the check box of any employee then that employee should get attached to that department from LOV.
I hope i explaind in a way the forum ppl can understand what i want to create, now I am new to oracle forms pleaze if i can get help that how will i proceed developing this form.
Thanks
Naveed

Answer 1

I think an easier option would be to two base table blocks; one based on the DEPARTMENTS table and one based on the EMPLOYEES table. Make the DEPARTMENTS block read only so users can't make changes to the DEPARTMENTS table. Code your form so users have to choose a department before they can display unassigned employees.
Add a non-base table Check Box item as RK suggested to the EMPLOYEES table. In the EMPLOYEES block, when a user clicks the checkbox write code in the When-Checkbox-Changed (WCC) trigger write code to assign the current employee record the selected department_id from the DEPARTMENTS table. If the user unchecks the checkbox, simply assign NULL to the department_ID of the current employee record. This eliminates the need to loop records in a Save Button code and makes the code simply:
BEGIN
   COMMIT_FORM;
END;Hope this helps,
Craig B-)
If someone's response is helpful or correct, please mark it accordingly.