Duplicate a record

Question

Hi
IF HTMLDB has a wizard that can create a button to duplicate a record
Example;
the manager need to give a same task to five different employee, and he rather to duplicate the record five times and just change the username for the five employee
do I need to create a procedure to do this
any ideas??
Thanks
MM

Answer 1

Yeah, I wish there was an "official" method.
My method below does not involve creating a row and displaying it afterwards.
it seems to work.
Create a form on table with report.
The following changes occur in the form page, 5.
create a hidden item, p5_is_duplicating
default value N
create a button, duplicate_record
redirect to the same form page, 5.
we want the duplicate_record button to be visible
when p5_id is not null,
and p5_is_duplicating has 'N'
tried a few conditions, but the following seems to work.
if :P5_ID is null then
return false;
end if;
if :P5_IS_DUPLICATING = 'Y' then
return false;
end if;
return true;
put the same condition on the DELETE and APPLY CHANGES button.
these button of course are part of the create form wizard.
These three buttons should be visible or invisible at the same time.
still the duplicate_record button:
URL redirect
target: 5
set these items: P5_ID,P5_HOSTNAME,P5_SERIAL_NUMBER,P5_IS_DUPLICATING
with these values: &P5_ID.,,,Y
in other words, set P5_ID to the old value, and
p5_is_duplicating to Y.
in my app, I need the new record to have different values
in the hostname and serial_number columns,
so I set these to blank values, and the user is expected to
fill in these.
(The user can of course change other columns before saving data.)
change the condition on the CREATE button
:P5_ID is null or :P5_IS_DUPLICATING = 'Y'
originally, the CREATE button appears when the P5_ID is null.
Now I also want this button to appear when
p5_is_duplicating has 'Y'.
When the user presses the CREATE button,
we are inserting a brand new row with values
the user typed from scratch,
or with values carried from the original row,
including the P5_ID, with possible changes.
my table does not allow duplicate values in the ID column,
so I add an INSERT trigger to set ID to a new value
regardless.
create or replace trigger computers_trg
before insert on computers_t for each row
begin
select myseq.nextval into :new.id from dual;
end;
when the user goes off page 5, I need p5_is_duplicating
to be cleared. One way is to add "5" to the "Clear cache" field
in the unconditional branch and the CANCEL button.
again, the branch and CANCEL are part of the create form wizard.