Creating a button for inserting into a table

Question

What I can't do, because I've never needed to, is to create in a page (where I have a Interactive report) a button that when is clicked performs a simple sql (for example an insert into a table using some page item values).
How can I do it?
Thanks

Answer 1

Here are some of the steps:
1) Create the button.
2) Then right click on the button name and select Create Dynamic Action
3) Give the DA a name, click next
4) On the "When" Step, Event should already be "Click" and the button name should be filled in
5) For Condition, you would have a condition for when you want the button display.  Say, if your page items have a certain range of values then display this button.  No condition means the button is always displayed.
6) For the "True Action" Step, for Action select "Execute PL/SQL Code"
    [There are other ways to do this, but this is straight-forward for me.]
7) The in the PL/SQL Code block enter say:
Begin
  INSERT INTO EMP (EMPNO, ENAME, HIREDATE)        
          VALUES (:P6_EMPNO, 'MARK1970', :P6_HIREDATE);
  COMMIT;
END;   --- You would likely make them all page item variables
8) Here the part I'm not 100% sure of.
    For "Page Items to Submit", name the page items used in YOUR QUERY -- in my example these are  P6_EMPNO,P6_HIREDATE   (Note no use of & or : or . here)
    Hmm.  Start by putting nothing in the "Page Items to Return".   If that fails, then try the same page items  P6_EMPNO,P6_HIREDATE there as well.
[ I'm too lazy to go run this down at the moment.]
9) I think that's it.
Howard