Display date and Time in Oracle Application Express Page

Question

Hi
I have a requirement of showing the date and time in the top left corner of the page which should be updated at all times . The format is DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS.
I am able to display the date but not the time . Also the time should be updating on its own to the last second.
Another requirement is that on selecting a particular value from the drop down the table values displayed should be filtered
Thanks in advance for helping me out
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Jude Franco

Answer 1

Hello,
I am able to display the date but not the time Probably due to your NLS settings not displaying the time component for dates. However you can manually specify the output format like this -
jes@DBTEST> select to_char(sysdate, 'HH24:MI:SS DD-MON-YYYY') as TS from dual;
TS
10:47:45 10-DEC-2008
Another requirement is that on selecting a particular value from the drop down the table values displayed should be filtered Really need more details on that (remember assume that we know nothing about your requirements other than what you tell us). However at a high-level you need to include the drop down value in the query predicate used for your report, for example -
select
  e.ename,
  e.sal
from
  emp e
where
  e.deptno = NVL(:P1_DEPTNO, e.deptno)Would use the value from the P1_DEPTNO select list (presumably displaying department names) and use it to filter the result. The NVL is there so that if no dept is selected then the query by default shows all the records.
Hope this helps,
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