Custom errors in tabular form

Question

Hi,
I am getting oracle errors in a tabular form if entering some illegal values. For example i am getting below oracle error
when giving an invalid date in a date field
Error in mru internal routine: ORA-20001: Error in MRU: row= 1, ORA-20001: Found invalid date value, please verify
date format., insert into "PE_DIP"."CORRELATION_ELIGIBILITY"
( "ID", "CUSTOMER_ID", "SITE_ID", "EQUIPMENT_ID", "TERMINATION_ID", "CORRELATION_ELIGIBILITY", "LAST_MO
DIFIED_BY", "LAST_MODIFIED_ON") values ( :b1, :b2, :b3, :b4, :b5, :b6, :b7, :b8)i just need the message
Found invalid date value, please verify date formatand like this, for each errors i just need the error message and that will be dispalyed in the notification area and not in
other page. Is this possible?. Plz help,
Thanks,
TJ

Answer 1

Hi TJ,
You could write a JavaScript function to do that for you. Just call it onChange or onBlur. I have the following javascript functions that I use. These display the error next to the item though, so you may need to play around with it to display it where you want it to. (Pls note: I have a few validation functions like the notNull one below that all call the setError function.)
//This function checks to see if the object sent in is null and if so displays an error message
//back to the user. This is useful when doing client side validations on tabular forms in APEX.
//It takes in the ID of the object we want to do this check for and prints out an error
//just after the cell where the error occurred.
function notNull(object, errObj) {
var val = $x(object).value;
setError(object, (val == "" || val == null), "This field cannot be empty ", errObj);
//Function to display an error in a tabular form. The error will be displayed next to the field associated
//with the object parameter, using div tags. In addition to the object parameter, the function also takes in
//the err object to use as id in the div tag, a boolean variable to indicate if there is an error and the error string
//to display
function setError(object, isErr, errStr, errObj) {
//ensure you have the name for the error string to be displayed
if (!errObj) {
errObj = "err_".concat(object.id);
//if there was a prior error displayed, first delete that, so we do not have duplicate messages shown
$x_Remove(errObj);
if (isErr) {
if (!$x(errObj)) {
$x_Style(object, 'border', '1px solid red');
var errStr = ('<div name="err" id="').concat(errObj).concat('" style="color:red;">').concat(errStr).concat(' </div>');
object.parentNode.innerHTML += errStr;
$x("Back").focus();
$x(object.id).focus();
} else {
$x_Style(object, 'border', "1px solid #C8C8C8");
$x_Remove(errObj);
In the report item attributes page, I call the above function as onBlur="notNull(this);" in the element attribute field.
HTH,
Chandini