Creating a complex tabular form manually

Question

Hi,
I am trying to create a tabular form manually. The tabular form consists of
rows , with each row containing
1. Select List (of employee names)
2. JOB (Text box)
3. Salary (text box)
I have a add button to add a row, a row similar in appearance to the above, i.e it consists of a select list of "employee names", "job" text box and "salary" text box.
I should to be able to specify the id for these items in each row that I add, I need to specify id for each item in each row that I add since, there is a lov image attached to each row, that would capture any data entered by the user in that row and take him to a popup page with the values specified in the main page.
Can anyone tell me how to specify id to the items I add (i.e when I create a new row).I also dont find any id created to the items in the form that I have created manually. Please note i am using the APEX_ITEM package to create the tabular form manually.

Answer 1

Hi Andy,
I would like to explain what I have done and kindly let me know if this is right.
I created a tabular multirow form using APEX built in component, since I wanted to add validations and I could not get a handle to UpdateMRU, I decided to create the tabular multirow forms manually using the example on the APEX howtos link.
I find that the multirow form which i created manually does not have any id associated with the items.
1. Please let me know if I need to add validations is there only one way i.e to create the multi row tabular form manually?
2.How do I specify the ids for each item. The APEX_ITEM APIs dont provide any way to add ids to items?
3.Is it possible to add validations to the multi row form generated using APEX wizard?In the sense , for eg, I have the employee table presented as multi row table, when a user adds a new row or modifies an existing row, he should not be allowed to add an employee with the same name, Now where do I do this valiation and how can I show the error against that row?
4. What I need to do further is. I have an image on each row (akin to a button) that would spring up a popup page with search options , so that I can repopulate values back into the parent page, to do this I need to pass the ids of the ITEMS to and fro from the parent to the child and back.
I would like to understand how to approach the above issues.
Would appreciate if you could let me know on the same.
Thanks.