Create Trigger to Delete from multiple tables

Hello:
I'm trying to write a trigger which will allow me to delete from multiple records. I have two tables where the record for the same client_id needs to be deleted.
Is it possible to do this? I started writing some code and this is what I have so far:
create or replace trigger app_t1
before delete on <table1> ?? -
for each row
begin
delete from client where clientid = :new.clientid;
delete from key where pk = :newclientid;
end;I'm stuck on the line where I have "before delete on" where I'm supposed to provide a table name. I can only use one table and I need to delete from two.
This trigger is supposed to be used within APEX. In APEX, fields are designated as :P1_clientid where P1 references page 1 of the application. Yet, :P1_clientid is set to the field clientid in the table.
So when I write my trigger, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to set my variables.
Can someone help?
I'm also going to post this into the APEX forum.
Thanks.

It's not clear to me if you are just trying to keep two tables in syn or whether you are trying to achieve something else.
A couple of points though:
- In delete database triggers the :new attributes are NULL. You probably mean to use the :old attributes.
- Is there some relationship between the two tables? If so, setting the foreign key to CASCADE DELETE might do the trick for you.
- Another option - better than a database trigger in my opinion - is to just code a procedure that deletes from both tables and call that one from APEX.
Regards,
Rob.

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I have such pdf files from an unknown source (the producer is edited out) whereby there are three tiff images, obtained using the well known pdfimages extractor.
When I want to make a pdf out of tiff or png or other image formats, I right click and tell Adobe Acrobat to make a pdf.
However, I dont know how I can give a command to select say, three tif images and specify which is the mask for which and then join them in a way that I get the pdf from the composite of the two color images and a mask for one of them.
Please help me out.
I am a little familiar with the pdf structure skeleton and when necessary, fixed xref tables in one of my favorite editors. A few years ago, I also wrote a bunch of javascripts to make some annotations and needed some automation and used some itext type libraries. However, I need your help in this problem as I am now rusty and forgot some of what I studied to solve my earlier problems. This is a new problem for me. Gentle hints from you would be very nice to help me in this problem. Please specify if necessary what manual and pages to read. in the pdfspec.
Best Regards
Disabled Veteran [physically handicapped]

Hello Again.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM, lrosenth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Re: How to create a pdf file from multiple images ?
>
> created by lrosenth in PDF Language and Specifications - View the full
> discussion
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>
> No clue who Irving is…
>
I was hoping to have your first name so its easy for me to address you.
> I have no clue what OS platform, programming language, etc. you use so
> can’t really narrow things down.
I would gladly mention that I am working on windows platform, preferably XP.
I can also work on linux for free products that come with it.
> Also, as this is an Adobe forum, we only
> recommend Adobe products – so there may be other options that even my list
> wouldn’t include.
But adding other products, for the help of an adobe products user,
even if it outside adobe, shall add greater prestige to your company
and give impression of user-centeredness.
> If you read ISO 32000-1:2008 (aka the PDF standard), you will find the
> information about Images and Image Masks well described. I didn’t think I
> needed to repeat any of that information.
Well, just add the few pdf stanzas since you are proficient on it and
I am presently a little rusty as I mentioned. Just asking a little
extra yard, not even to go an extra mile.
> And, if you read that same document, you will see that there is NO SUCH
> THING as a “text only PDF”. All PDF documents are structured binary files.
Well, ascii format or uncompressed format that is human readable. I
know its a binary file, but human readable ascii version of it.
I hope you can give me some stanza and various other approaches
possible so I can select or combine things for myself. I see only a
miniscule number of posts claiming to have written masks in this forum
and then with no details.
Regards
Roger
Message was edited by: dying veteran
because the adobe posting system went crazy and truncated all except the first line ... dunno why

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