Column going from Readonly to Editable with the click of a button.

Question

Hi,
I am building an app where users will have to input some data in certain colunms, once the user finishes the data entry he will have an option to finalyze his report by clicking on a button. I am having trouble with the part of switching from a textfield to a readonly field. I ave tried to do ti through a select SQL with the APEX_ITEM.HIDDEN and APEX_ITEM.TEXT but i keep getting an missing expression error.
Here is the code:
SELECT
APEX_ITEM.HIDDEN (1,a."VueR") || a."VueR" Condition,
CASE (a."VUER")
WHEN "-1" THEN APEX_ITEM.HIDDEN(2,a."ID_ELE15") || a."ID_ELE15" TESTLABEL
ELSE APEX_ITEM.TEXT(2,a."ID_ELE15") TESTLABEL
END
FROM Budget_Main a
WHERE upper(a."User_Director") = :APP_USER
OR upper(a."User_Line_Manager") = :APP_USER
With the column attributes i was able to make the column disappear once the button is clicked, but i want the user to be able to see his work .
Thank you for the help.

Answer 1

Hello:
I am assuming that the query you posted is for a tabular form. With that said, you can use the query below
SELECT
APEX_ITEM.HIDDEN (1,a."VueR") || a."VueR" Condition,
CASE
WHEN a."VUER" ='-1' THEN APEX_ITEM.DISPLAY_AND_SAVE (2,a."ID_ELE15")  --- Display Only
ELSE APEX_ITEM.TEXT(2,a."ID_ELE15")                                                        --- Allow Edit
END TESTLABEL
FROM Budget_Main a
WHERE upper(a."User_Director") = :APP_USER
OR upper(a."User_Line_Manager") = :APP_USERVarad