Dynamic help page

Question

I want to be able to construct a help page that has a provides a more indept description of what each item means on the forms the user is using. Something like this...
HELP PAGE
Header_1
Item_1 : Description, blah, blah, blah
Item_2 : Description, blah, blah, blah
Item_3 : Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_2
Item_1 : Description, blah, blah, blah
Item_2 : Description, blah, blah, blah
Intially I was going to just hard-code the details in the UIX page but I would like to be able to get the information from a database table (but not display it as a table). The table would have columns (Header, Item_name, Item_description), then by simply adding a new record, the new item would be displayed on the page - likewise a new header (or just the updated of the description text).
Is this sort of thing possible ? Do I have to write Java code to process my way through a DataObjectList or is there a shorter more efficient way of doing this ? Some code hints (using UIX and JDev 9.0.3) would be greatly apprecaited !
Thanks in advance :)
Brent Harlow

Answer 1

Hi Jan,
Basically what I am after is for a table looking like this:
Header_1, Item_1, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_1, Item_2, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_1, Item_3, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_2, Item_1, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_2, Item_2, Description, blah, blah, blah
to be turned into a page looking like this :
Header_1
Item_1 Description, blah, blah, blah
Item_2 Description, blah, blah, blah
Item_3 Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_2
Item_1 Description, blah, blah, blah
Item_2 Description, blah, blah, blah
Then, if I was to update the table with another say item like
Header_1, Item_1, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_1, Item_2, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_1, Item_3, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_1, Item_4, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_2, Item_1, Description, blah, blah, blah
Header_2, Item_2, Description, blah, blah, blah
that the page would automatically be updated to include the extra item for header_1. I was really wondering if its possible to do it through the Headstart generation. I think what I will end up doing is creating x number of groups (where x is the number of headers I have at the moment) - this will generate x pages - I can then cut and paste the code from the x pages into a single page. This then would allow for extra items to be added automatically - but not if an extra group/header record and associated items was added - then I would need to go in, regenerate another page and add that to the page with all of the current tables.
Im not sure if Im explaining myself very well ? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers
Brent