Create a collection from Shuttle or Multiple Select List items

Question

Hi all, this may be a dumb question, but I cannot find how to create a collection using the values stored shuttle item? I just want to assign the values of the shuttle which are usually delimited by a colon (ex. 11:22:33:44:55) into a collection that stores each of these values separately so later I can select * from table where id IN(select * from collectionname) --- is this possible?
I am running into a problem where users want to select more than 1000 items in a shuttle to do a search.... and the IN operator cannot handle more than 1000 instances. I was told to try to use a temporary table to house the values of the shuttle, but temporary tables pose a problem with APEX. I read on the forums to try using a collection instead. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Would this be a good start?? I found this here... Re: Search on a typed in list of values
Not sure how the View would work though??
A much easier way of doing all this is to create a collection, create a view off that collection and then do your select from the view. No custom functions or types involved. An example is:
DECLARE
l_vc_arr2 HTMLDB_APPLICATION_GLOBAL.VC_ARR2;
BEGIN
l_vc_arr2 := HTMLDB_UTIL.STRING_TO_TABLE(:P13_MULTISELECT);
htmldb_collection.create_or_truncate_collection( p_collection_name => 'MULTISELECTCOL');
FOR i IN 1..l_vc_arr2.count LOOP
htmldb_collection.add_member(
p_collection_name => 'MULTISELECTCOL',
p_c001 => l_vc_arr2(i));
END LOOP;
END;
where your view looks something like:
CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "WS"."TEMP_MULTISELECT_VIEW" ("MULTISELECTID") AS
(SELECT c001 FROM htmldb_collections WHERE collection_name = 'MULTISELECTCOL');
and finally for your report you use something like:
SELECT t.a
FROM tablea t
WHERE t.b IN
(SELECT roleid FROM temp_multiselect_view)
This way is simple and works... so by KISS standards its good.
Hope this helps some other unfortunate....