Beginning Design question - Forms 10g

Question

This is the first form I have been asked to develop. I am designing a forms 10G application. It is to be a read only interface to multiple history tables in a 10 R2 database. I want to be able to have the user select a year and then populate the form with that year's data. Will I have to create a form for each year? or is there a way to pass the year as a parameter and then select a datablock built from each table and associate that datablock with just 1 form. OR, if that is a lousy design, what is the best approach?

Answer 1

Hi,
You just need one form, but some datablocks (maybe).
If you have a database table for each 'year' then you need a datablock for each year.
Create a stacked canvas for each datablock.
To change beetwen blocks use:
go_block('block_name');If you have just one table then you can use set_block_property
set_block_property('block_name', default_where, 'where clause');
Hope it helps!
Edited by: Ruddy Guerra on 14-abr-2011 21:03