Content area Item restriction programmatically.

Any one knows to restrict the items to be present in the content area?.
We can manually do it by going to the itms while creating the content area.
I want to do this programmatically while creating the content area( am creating the CA through the script).
Thanks in advance for your help.
cheers,
Ranjit

Hi,
I havent heard of this problem..
There is a bug in using LOVs in content area where in the LOV's dont appear if the number of rows are huge.
Have you tried creating an LOV using scott.emp and using it .....
Pl. mention the exact steps where in you are facing this problem, havent come across this .
Thanks,
Anu

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