Configure Session State?

Is there any equivalent of the "Configure Session State" page from MOSS 2007?
ie. http://<server>:<adminport>/_admin/SessionStateAdmin.aspx
So far trying to install our webparts on SP 2010 has failed misserably. They install fine on out of the box MOSS 2007.
I've managed to get over the session state problem by hacking the web.config file but that's not particularly desirable (as it wasn't required on MOSS). Now we've come across a viewstate problem as well which I haven't yet fixed.

There's a new State Service in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, that maintains temporary state information for IPFS.
Okay. But it doesn't seem to enable normal ASP.NET state like it did in 2007. This will probably cause lots of issues when migrating custom webparts and apps (or at least any using session state).

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Session state - Whats the big deal?

What is the equivalent of HTMLDB's "session state" in other peer environments, like, for instance, ASP/ASPX pages?
There, you would just define a bunch of variables and use those on the page, right?
How does the fact that HTMLDB's "variables" are stored in the database benefit me? All I care about is being able to read/write my "variables" from various points in my application.
Thanks

Vikas,
Session state needs to be maintained somewhere. Then, on a subsequent page view/submission, you are essentially reunited with your session state. This is applicable to almost all Web technologies.
Most technologies persist session state in application server middle-tier memory, which is very finite (.NET supports configuration of both, memory or database). Think about it...if you have 2GB RAM on your middle tier, how many "concurrent" sessions could you support maintaining session state in memory for all your users? What type of elaborate mechanism would you have to employ to ensure you don't exhaust middle tier resources?
I've built/used/monitored real-world applications built using HTML DB, which would have over 6,000 distinct users in the peak hour, yet at any given split microsecond, there were no more than 8 - 10 active database sessions. In an alternative architecture, how much middle tier memory would it take for you to support 6,000 distinct user sessions in an hour? How long before you start expiring these sessions?
Joel

ASP Web Forms Error: Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true

Hello,
I am developing a custom application page for a custom Web Forms I am creating, which I plan on using for custom task form into SharePoint 2010 Foundation.
Currently, I am trying to test it in Debug Mode using Visual Studio 2010 but when I am trying to use Sessions I get the error:
Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive. Please also make sure that System.Web.SessionStateModule or a custom session state module is included in the <configuration>\<system.web>\<httpModules> section in the application configuration
I've already done this on trying to fix:
On my page
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="TestForm.aspx.cs" Inherits="TestForm" EnableSessionState="True" %>
And on my web.config
<pages enableSessionState="true">..<httpModules>
<remove name="Session" />
<add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
</httpModules>
Note: I am getting an error when I try to add <module> into web.config
ASP .NET State Service is currently running.
And the part where it keeps error is when in PageLoad, I try to set a List object something like this:
List<object> myobject
get
if (Session["object"] == null)
Session["object"] = new List<object>();
return Session["object"] as List<object>;
set
Session["object"] = value;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
myobject= new List<object>();
BUT the error still persists! I also try to restart IIS but still the error still happens.
I am running out of ideas so can you help me out?
Thank you!

Could be your skype intercepting your requests at 80 port, in Skype options uncheck
Or Your IE has connection checked for Proxy when there is no proxy
Or your fiddler could intercept and act as proxy, uncheck it!
Solves the above problem, It solved mine!
HydTechie
HydPhani

Session State Protection

This is a spinoff of another thread in which Scott Spadafore was teaching how to effectively escape user-supplied data. This will be about Session State Protection in 2.0.
I had asked Scott, "if I simply select the Restricted setting on this feature for every single item in my application, is that sufficient to protect me from URL tampering?"
Scott replied: "No. First, you can't use that setting for POSTable items. Second, you need to pass item values via URL within your app, I assume, so the restricted setting is, er, too restrictive."
OK, digging into the user guide I see that the first step is to enable session state protection. I drill down: Application -> Shared Components -> Session State Protection -> Set Protection.
Now I click Enable and then on the next screen Enable Session State Protection. I assume I have accepted all of the default settings on the Configure page:
Page Access Protection - Arguments Must Have Checksum
Application Item Protection - Checksum Required - Session Level
Page Data Entry Item Protection - Checksum Required - Session Level
Page Display-Only Item Protection - Checksum Required - Session Level
Is it safe to say that you will generally want Session Level Checksums? The help says, "Use this option when you want to allow this item to be set only by URLs having checksums that were generated in the current session." I can't really think of why I wouldn't want this.
Once I have clicked Enable Session State Protection, have I accomplished anything or am I just getting started?
For a live application, I am putting my application at risk at all by doing this? Has the Session State Protection had any issues that might negatively impact my live application? If I find there are any, can I disable it and be back where I started without any complications?
Thanks, Scott.
Bill
Message was edited by:
jkestely

Is it safe to say that you will generally want Session Level Checksums? ... I can't really think of why I wouldn't want this.Yes. The other types are for allowing users to bookmark URLs that contain checksums, either for their own use in later sessions in which they are authenticated to the same application or for use by unauthenticated users to the same application.
Once I have clicked Enable Session State Protection, have I accomplished anything or am I just getting started?That's most of it. If your dynamic regions produce links to pages and those pages require checksums, you need to change the link-generation code to use htmldb_util.prepare_url.
For a live application, I am putting my application at risk at all by doing this?Yes, changes to live applications result in disaster most of the time in my experience.
Has the Session State Protection had any issues that might negatively impact my live application?There is a bug that prevents sortable report heading links from being used on pages that require checksums. The bug is fixed in 2.1, but for 2.0 you need to not use that combination.
If I find there are any, can I disable it and be back where I started without any complications?Yes, in fact all you have to do is disable the feature at the application level, leaving page and item attributes as they are.
Scott

SSP broke my LOV :-( - Session State Protection Issue

Hi Folks.
I'm tinkering with SSP on my application.
Here's the challenge du jour.
If I enable SSP across the entire application I can't even log in. That was resolved by setting the login page to 'Unrestricted'. not sure of the security implication of doing that but bear with me.
My main Issue is this.
I am using Patrick's APEXLIB for Cascading LOV functionality.
My Parent LOV works fine.
My Child LOV is blank.
I have modified everything on the page to 'Unrestricted' and still I end up with a blank child LOV.
Any ideas how to skin this cat?
Many thanks
Simon

OK so here's how i 'fixed' this issue. I say fixed but I would welcome any comments regarding the security impact of the 'fix' I came up with.
First of all I enabled SSP across the entire application
Page Access Protection = Arguments Must have Checksum
Application Item Protection = Checksum required - Session level
Page Data Entry Item Protection = Checksum required - Session level
Page Display-Only Item Protection = Checksum required - Session level
This had the desired effect of applying these settings to everything.
Having done that I needed to update the SSP to Patrick Wolf's Application Items in the following way...
APEXLIB_REFERENCE_ID = Unrestricted
APEXLIB_REFERENCE_TYPE = Unrestricted
As a side note, I noticed that the Application Item FSP_AFTER_LOGIN_URL was also set to Unrestricted. I guess this is enforced by APEX to allow successful login to the application. All other application items were set to Checksum Required - Session Level as per the cross-application configuration I had initially done.
Finally I had to review the pages that had the cascading LOVs that no longer functioned. For these pages I had to set the "Item Session State Protection" to Unrestricted for the poll down LOVs used in the Cascading LOV process. Parent LOVs and Child LOVs.
The end result is that I have pretty tight SSP enabled across the entire application. The only areas where it is 'Unrestricted' are some of the cascading LOVs.
I would be very interested to hear from anyone who would care to comment on the security weaknesses this approach may have created.
I will update this thread if the SSP enabling has affected anything else in the application. So far though, it's only the Cascading LOVs.
Kind regards
Simon Gadd

[urgent] How to enable session state without modifying web.config ?

HI ,
We have customized a new master page to our site. We have a requirement to use session (HTTContext.current.session) , to save data , then we have an error session is null , so we excuted the
Enable-SPSessionStateService-DefaultProvision
We have no access to the web.config ! so we cant change the ligne from <pages enablesessionstate="false" to <pages enablesessionstate="true" , so we wanted to add enablesessionstate="true" in the page wich caused
the probleme and we had a new error "enablesessionstate is not allowed in this page".
How can we resolve this problem without modifying the Web.config ?? a have benn blocked since 2 days ! Any help will be great. Thanks in advance :)

Hi Bouhmind,
Thanks for posting this issue, you can enable session by setting enablesessionstat="true" in page directive as you try. Also, you need to do some configuration in your IIS. Kindly browse the below mentioned URL to do that configuration in
IIS.
http://ammarfassy.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/session-state-can-only-be-used-when-enablesessionstate-is-set-to-true/
I hope this is helpful to you. If this works, Please mark it as Answered.
Regards,
Dharmendra Singh (MCPD-EA | MCTS)
Blog :
http://sharepoint-community.net/profile/DharmendraSingh

How to tell if a user is issuing 'alter session statements'

When I run 'alter session' from sqlplus in my schema, this does not get parsed and go to v$sql or show up in v$open_cursor. I have a user that is running queries from informatica. He says he is passing alter session statements through informatica, I want to see if they actually get there. The person is not real versed in oracle and I don't know informatica.
i cant turn on trace cause he connects and disconnects and this would run immediately, I am not in a position to turn on system level tracing, add a trigger, or turn on auditing (not allowed).
anyway to tell from a data dictionary view or something like that if these were issued by a given session? The queries run for a few minutes, so I have a bit before his session disconnects to query the data. I can't get him to change his code to stay connected. Is there a view that shows parameter changes for a given session?
oracle: 10.2.0.5
4 alter session commands are:
Alter session set sort_area_size=999999999;
Alter session set hash_area_size=999999999;
Alter session set db_file_multiblock_read_count = 128;
alter session enable parallel dml;
Edited by: Guess2 on Jul 17, 2012 12:49 PM

i cant turn on trace cause he connects and disconnects and this would run immediately, I am not in a position to turn on system level tracing, add a trigger, or turn on auditing (not allowed). If Informatica connects to Oracle via network, capturing TCP/IP traffic and mining in it may be your last resort.
you can get session's PDML status from
select pdml_status from v$session;
i cant turn on trace cause he connects and disconnects and this would run immediatelythis contradicts to your following statement
The queries run for a few minutes, so I have a bit before his session disconnects to query the data.
I can't get him to change his code to stay connected. Informatica should have debug. Ask him if he can go step by step.
Edited by: user11181920 on Jul 17, 2012 5:53 PM

Session state is not being passed properly to another page

Hello Gurus,
I have a multi-page application which authenticates using a simple authentication page 101. Right now I have a generic authentication scheme which always returns true (Session Verify Function= return true; I will integrate LDAP later.) It works fine. The app remembers the username from one page to the next (popup pages mainly).
My issue is that, after exporting the application and re-importing into a new workspace, the user/session state is no longer being preserved from page to page. It prompts for a login every new page that is opened (the popups). This ruins the flow and functionality of the app.
I've checked every setting (I think) and cannot find any differences between the two workspaces or apps. Any ideas why this would work in one workspace and not the other?
TIA!
Jonathan
I should also indicate that the issue seems to be specifically in calling "callmypopup" function. For some reason it isn't passing the session id properly to the popup page, where it did fine in the other workspace. function text:
function callMyPopup (sourceItem, popuppagenum, targetItem, appid, appsession) {
//opens popup pg and passes value in sourceItem to targetItem
//sourceitem=calling text box, targetItem=text box in popup page
var minlength = 3;
if (CheckLength(sourceItem, minlength))
var formVal1 = document.getElementById(sourceItem).value.toUpperCase();
var url;
url = 'f?p=' + appid + ':' + popuppagenum + ':' + appsession + '::::' + targetItem + ':' + formVal1;
w = open(url,"winLov","Scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600");
if (w.opener == null)
w.opener = self;
w.focus();
else {alert('Please enter at least ' + minlength + ' characters in your search.');}
Edited by: austindurant on Sep 5, 2008 7:02 AM
Edited by: austindurant on Sep 5, 2008 7:46 AM

It looks like your session id is not correctly passed to your popup page. Try using:
javascript:popUp2('f?p=&APP_ID.:1:&SESSION.:::::', 600, 700);
instead, which does the same thing. Put your parameters for the page items there if required.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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Problem with application item and session state

Okay, let's see if I can explain this problem coherently.
I have a small app (one page), with an application item, F_WHERE_CLAUSE.
This page has three regions in which there are items that the users can populate for search conditions. A couple of these items are "select list with submit" (I still need to upgrade to the AJAX method, I know). There is another region which has one hidden field, called P1_WHERE_CLAUSE. This field is defined to "Always, replacing any value in session state..." with source type of "Item (application or page.....", and a source value of F_WHERE_CLAUSE with no default value.
I have a button called "Search" which submits the page and fires a PL/SQL process which builds a where condition based upon the other page items and stores the value to the application item F_WHERE_CLAUSE (correctly).
For testing, I've made the P1_WHERE_CLAUSE field visible so that I can see what's going on. I've also clicked the debug and session buttons to help trace this. After I click the "Search" button and the page submits, debug shows:
0.02: ...Session State: Save "P1_WHERE_CLAUSE" - saving same value: "1=1"
followed later by:
0.05: ...Session State: Saved Item "F_WHERE_CLAUSE" New Value="lower(primary_class) = 'rock' and country = 'Spain'"
The field P1_WHERE_CLAUSE displays with the correct search criteria as signified by F_WHERE_CLAUSE above. However, If I click the "session" button to view the session state values, P1_WHERE_CLAUSE shows up as:
P1_WHERE_CLAUSE Textarea 1=1 U while F_WHERE_CLAUSE displays the correct value still.
The reason this "problem" came up, is that this page also has three SQL report regions which use &P1_WHERE_CLAUSE. for the where condition. While they display the correct results on-screen, each report region also has the "Export to csv" enabled, and the export seems to be using the "1=1" condition (from the "session" window) instead of the search criteria that the on-screen region is using (F_WHERE_CLAUSE and the displayed P1_WHERE_CLAUSE), resulting in a retreival of all records.
Anybody have any idea what's going on and why, and how to get the csv export to use the correct value for the where condition?
Thanks,
Bill Ferguson

It appears the "Export to CSV" functionality requires the item value to be set in session state. The P1_WHERE_CLAUSE item value never gets saved to session state. The page is rendered and the value is put in the item on the page but until you submit the page session state doesn't know what P1_WHERE_CLAUSE is.
Create a before header computation or process to set the value of P1_WHERE_CLAUSE (which will save it to session state). It is interesting that the report regions didn't need to look at the value in session state but the "export to csv" does.
--Jeff

Interactive Report Download and Session State Protection

I have created an Interactive Report in an APEX application that I have enabled
session state protection for. The issue I am having is with the "Download"
functionality of the interactive report to a .csv file.
The URL created by selecting Download from the drop down (javascript:gReport.controls.download();)
is built or constructed without a checksum thus causing the error below.
Error
No checksum was provided to show processing for a page that
requires a checksum when one or more request, clear cache, or argument
values are passed as parameters.
The anchor tag containing the URL (/f?p=app_id:page:session_id:CSV:) is contained within
<div id="apexir_CONTROL_PANEL_DROP" class="drop_panel
clearfix" style="">
Running the following: Application Express 3.1.0.00.32 on Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0
Is there a way to add a checksum to this? OR does anyone have any ideas on how to work around this?
Edited by: Bryce Tuohy on Feb 26, 2009 10:08 AM

WORKAROUND:
1.) Create hidden ITEM on page (I named it P23_PREPARED_CSV_DOWNLOAD_URL).
Enter the following for the ITEM
as the SOURCE_TYPE : PL/SQL Function Body
as the SOURCE: return apex_util.prepare_url('f?p=&APP_ID.:&APP_PAGE_ID.:&APP_SESSION.:CSV:')
2.) Create BUTTON that executes javascript to open POPUP window with this url.
a.) Create Button and enter
<a href="javascript:popupURL('&P23_PREPARED_CSV_DOWNLOAD_URL.')">Download and Save to CSV file</a>as the "Text Label/Alt"
Originally had custom code for javascript POPUP and this is not needed .... just use the APEX javascript function.
Edited by: Bryce Tuohy on Mar 5, 2009 10:47 AM

How to update session state from form field values without submitting page?

Hi,
I am new to Oracle APEX. I am using Oracle Apex 4.2 on Oracle 11g release 2. The problem is that when I am entering data on a form, when I enter a value in one field and move to the next field, how can I use the value of first field in the validation procedure of next field? I know that when we enter data in fields, the session state is not updated with these values until we submit the page... right... but I have seen that if there is a control of List box type, then Apex gives an option "Action When List changes" where we can choose option to update corresponding session state field with the value of list box item, without submitting the page.
Now my questions is why this option is only available for List box items? why not for other item types like Text box, Check box,... ? can someone please help me with this?
(the issue with update of session state depending on page submitting, is that we need a complete network round trip from client to server in order for it. However if we can update session state variables without submitting page, then we can avoid this network traffic).
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Create a dynamic action on change and run a PL/SQL process there with the following code:
BEGIN
NULL;
END;Page items to submit > your item.
This will set the session state without submitting the form.
Further examples here:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=31517:229
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.apress.com/9781430235125
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=31517:1
http://www.amazon.de/Oracle-APEX-XE-Praxis/dp/3826655494
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Session State in Report Queries

Hi all,
I've got a report query with XML Structure set to advanced. I added two items to session state - a "department name", and a "current date" - these are application items that I want to put in the page header of my report template.
After I load the XML data and go to insert a field, I see some session info available for inserting (appl id, user, report title, etc.) along with my report fields, but I don't see the two session items I added. I took a look at the XML data and they're not there.
How do I get the session items to be included with the XML?
Thanks!!!

Sorry, I should have mentioned I am using a BI Publisher RTF Layout for my report layout, therefore I don't believe I can use it on apex.oracle.com. If BI Publisher is in fact installed there, then please correct me.
I am including session variables with the report, but the session variables between all of the report queries in my application are common between report queries. (Even though I really only want variables specific to each report to be included) When I add or delete a session variable from one report query, it affects all report queries in my application. This could be a feature, but I doubt it since it does not seem intuitive.
In addition, sometimes a random session variable or set of session variables will disappear from the list. (this is what I meant by drop) I cannot seem to determine when/what triggers this action, but it seems like this may occur when I delete a particular report query.
I can try to put up an example on apex.oracle.com, but I'm not sure if this is dependent on the presence of BI Publisher.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-David

Session state and browser cache - Back button problem

Hi all,
I have a problem (and unless I'm missing something I think we all do) with session state and use of the browser's Back button. I really hope I'm just being dumb...
Background scenario:
Page P has a sidebar list allowing the user to select what content is displayed (e.g. 'stuff relating to X, Y or Z' where X, Y and Z are rows in, say, a table of projects). When a list entry is clicked, we branch to page P with the value of the list item placed in an application-level item (call it G_PROJECT). Reports on page P use G_PROJECT in their WHERE clauses.
So, click list entry X and G_PROJECT is set to X and page P shows reports for project X.
Page P also has a set of buttons which branch to various edit pages which allow attributes of page P's current project to be updated. These pages similarly use G_PROJECT in their WHERE clauses.
Problem scenario:
1. The user goes to page P and picks project X off the list. Project X's stuff is displayed (G_PROJECT = X).
2. The user then picks project Y off the list. Project Y's stuff is displayed (G_PROJECT = Y).
3. The user then clicks the browser's Back button. The page is served from browser cache, so project X's stuff is displayed, but G_PROJECT still = Y.
4. The user clicks an 'Edit' button; we submit, and branch to an edit page which displays (and will edit) data for project Y because G_PROJECT still = Y.
This is SERIOUSLY BAD NEWS - apart from being confusing, the user's edit permissions on projects X and Y may differ, and so the user may be able to perform 'illegal' updates.
I've read what I can on this forum and the rest of the web looking for ways to a) inhibit browsers' 'Back' functions and/or b) prevent pages being cached by the browser, but none of them have worked for me.
Short of waiting for browser manufacturers to recognise that the web is now full of applications as well as static pages, and enable robust programmatic control of cache behaviour, does anybody know how the problem can be avoided - or at least detected?
Thanks,
jd
Failed attempts to date:
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-store">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="private">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0, must-revalidate">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 09 Aug 2000 01:01:01 GMT">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
Disallowing duplicate submission (page attribute).
window.history.go(1);

Thanks Scott,
I may be being dumb here but I don't see how that would help...
P250_PROJECT and G_PROJECT are currently kept in sync by app logic. Whichever is used to drive, if the page is rendered from cache then the app logic is not executed, so the rendered page contents are not those keyed by P250_PROJECT, as illustrated in steps 1-4 of the problem above.
The user sees X, the session items say Y. The engine doesn't know what the user is seeing.
when page P is POSTed, its hidden item P250_PROJECT should always be used to derive the application item G_PROJECT. Then whether the page was pulled from cache or rendered anew via a click from the sidebar link, the project ID is determined by the contents of that page.
As I said above I tried this, with the 'Edit' branch set to:
Set these items: G_PROJECT
With these values: &P250_PROJECT.
but it makes no difference. The project ID is not determined by the rendered page contents - the engine gets the value of P250_PROJECT from session state.
I can code the 'Edit' pages such that they check permissions and if necessary redirect back to p250 (conditional before-header branch), but that's a clunky cure rather than the prevention I was hoping for.
Please tell me if my understanding is incorrect.
jd

Session state and item values

Hi,
Is it any possibility to bring the session state and an item value to a table?
Thank you

Hi,
For session id use APP_SESSION substitution string
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23903_01/doc/doc.41/e21674/concept_sub.htm#sthref160
Regards,
Jari
http://dbswh.webhop.net/dbswh/f?p=BLOG:HOME:0

Row fetching, session state, multi-page processing of 1 row - problems

I'm building an application that's updating a couple of tables via an updateable view and an instead-of trigger. That portion of it works OK, EXCEPT for the problems that I'm having with the APEX end.
I've got 3 pages; the first page reads the row in via the automated row fetch and has, say columns 1-20.
Page 2 has, say, columns 20-40 and page 3 has the remainder.
I have the row fetch set up conditionally so that it only executes the first time that page 1 is displayed. All the columns are set as Database Columns.
It seems that if I fill in fields on page 1, move to page 2, and back to page 1, the contents of the fields on page 1 are destroyed unless I set their 'Source used' to 'Only when the current value in session state is null'.
Furthermore, upon update (which is on page 3, via an automated row update), the only columns that get updated are those that exist on page 3. The column values from the other pages no longer exist.
Does navigation to another page not retain the session-state of database-column items?
Am I better off just writing my own processes to perform the updates?
Any other suggestions?
Frank

Hello Frank,
>>I have the row fetch set up conditionally so
that it only executes the first time that page 1 is
displayed …
It seems that if I fill in fields on page 1, moveto page 2, and back to page 1, the contents of the
fields on page 1 are destroyed unless I set their
'Source used' to 'Only when the current value in
session state is null'.
It seems that the first sentence is not consistent
with the second one. The only reason the values are
destroyed, as you call it, is that the ARF is running
again. What condition are you using on your ARF?
In any case, the right way to deal with it is to
change the source used to "Only …", as I understand
you already did.
Hi Arie,
I set an item after the first ARF. I then have the ARF set to execute conditionally based on the presence of that item. (I also display a success message on the ARF, so I know that the ARF is only occurring once). I move to subsequent pages by submitting the current pages.
>>Does navigation to another page not retain the
session-state of database-column items?
Navigating to another page does retain the session state values.
It's depends on what you mean by navigating.
Submitting the page set/update session state.
Redirect without submitting the page will not
set/update the session state.
>>Furthermore, upon update (which is on page 3,
via an automated row update), the only columns that
get updated are those that exist on page 3. The
column values from the other pages no longer
exist.
Automatic DML is working only with the current page
items. You can't use it to insert/update other page
items, even if they are in session state. However, in
your case, it's not the Automatic DML performing the
actual updates, but your triggers. Are your triggers
relying on session state values?
I think this statement 'Automatic DML is working only with the current page
items.' answers my question. My trigger is working on session state values. It's an 'instead-of' trigger, so I was letting the automatic DML perform the 'update' on the view, while allowing the trigger to do the actual update of several tables that the view joins by referring to their :NEW. values in the trigger. Since the DML occurs on my last page, those were the only session state values that my trigger ultimately saw.
>>Am I better off just writing my own processes to
perform the updates?
I believe the correct way is to submit the page and
then branch to the next one. Submitting the page will
save all your items in session state, and allow these
items to be available for page 3 DML.
Regards,
Arie.I'm doing that already - all the values do appear to be in session sate, except only the items that are on the last page actually make it to the automatic DML update, which seems to agree with your previous statement.
I suppose I could write my own process to perform the update, as the values are available in session state.
Thanks,
Frank

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