Capture Hyperlink event and set value

Question

Hello everyone,
I have a hyperlink on a report column and when I click on the hyperlink it takes me to an URL. Now I need to capture the time the user clicked on the URL and update a DB table column. So I created a Dynamic event to update an item, but I am not able to get the hyperlink event. When I select the Event as 'Click' and 'Selection Type' as 'Item', the report column does not show up on the Item(s) LOV. Can Dynamic Actions be based only on click of page items?
If so, is there any other to capture this Hyperlink event and set value? Also, as my 'Column Link' target is 'URL', I cannot set any value for items there!
Please help,
Ramya

Answer 1

Thanks a lot Vee, that was very helpful.
I added the dummy page with 'OnLoad' page process with the PL/SQL code and my current page redirects to a new page with the new page's attributes set. Now I am able to update the timestamp on the table with the sysdate when I click on the click. However, my URL does not work. A page cannot be found error is returned. I displayed the P2_URL_ITEM on the page and it displays only until 'http', the rest of the text is cut. Is there a way I can increase the length of this page item?
As the URL value assigned to the page item did not work, I tried to hardcode the URL. Below is my page process on the load of dummy page,
BEGIN
UPDATE xxnf.XXNF_APEX_RR_REPORTS
SET last_used = SYSDATE
WHERE report_id = :P2_REPORT_ID;
sys.owa_util.redirect_url('www.google.com');
--owa_util.redirect_url(:P2_URL_ITEM);
END;
However, still the page not found error comes up. Could you please help fix both these issues?
1) P2_URL_ITEM - not having the complete URL
2) redirect_url not working.
Looking forward to any helpful pointers,
Ramya