Designating a Record as a BIND Record for Population Selection Use

Question

Hi All,
I am working on a population selection custom process, but I have hit a fork in the road because of the fact that I do not know how PeopleSoft actually recognizes a Bind records as a Bind record. Meaning I have created the record, but Population Selection does not recognize it as pop select type bind record. Thus, I am currently forced to use one of the delivered record even though the record is not really associated with my process.
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can associate a custom record with Population Selection?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Matt, you can set a form parameter to the domain value and use it in your record
group query:
SELECT rv_id,
       rv_descn
  FROM   curr_refval
  WHERE  rv_domain = :Parameter.domainParameters are not affected by clear_block and clear_form operations, so I like them
better for use as bind variables for SQL issued from within a form.
Using a database package variable is a pain, since you cannot access them directly
from Forms. You would have to create the package with the variable, then create a
function or procedure call in the package that would set the variable.
I sure wish you would fix that long Ask Tom link so the text in this thread
would word-wrap properly