How can I add buttons that do different things to each row of an rpt result

Question

Hi there,
I'm trying to figure out how to add buttons to each row of a report. Here is the scenario:
report query returns a set of data that needs to be "approved". The options are "Append", "Replace", or "Reject" (I want to make the results look like so:)
Person1 today blah, blah blah... Append button Replace button Reject button
Person2 today blah, blah, blah... Append button Replace button Reject button
PersonA today something, blah... Append button Replace button Reject button
and so on.
I'd like to set up the page so that there is an append, replace, reject button for each row returned by the report. So when the "Approver" clicks on the append button, something happens for that row, etc. How does one do this? So far I can only get the buttons to show up in the region. I also thought it might be possible to somehow turn the append, replace, reject text into links that called a plsql proceedure that would handle the action, but I'm not having any success with that idea either.
Edited by: user10361829 on Sep 29, 2009 12:10 PM

Answer 1

What I've done is make my report query as follows:
select field_a, field_b, field_c, 'Append', 'Replace', 'Reject'
from table_x
where field y = :PX_ID
That gives me the words (append, replace, reject) in the report. Then I go to the report attributes section and make a link out of the columns (append, replace, reject) so far, so good.
Next question is how to make clicking on those links activate an update action on tableN. In the column_link section there is a box marked "Request" that looks like it might be relevant because Request is a term connected to buttons, but I've no idea how to use it. Or, can one use the tabluar form element section of the report attributes page to connect the Append (pseudo column) to an action? I've looked at your example (Sam) with the delete button, but what I really need to see is the Apex menu that sets it up because there are so many levels in the interface it is not intuitive (at least for me). I know exactly what I want it to look like but I'm missing the crucial step to get there... Thanks for your help so far.
Column link section is described below :
Column Link     Top
Link Text      flashlight          
     [*Append*][Icon 1][Icon 2][Icon 3][Icon 4][Icon 5]
Link Attributes      
Target: *"Page in this application"*     Page: *10*     
Reset Pagination
Request Clear Cache      
Name     Value
Item 1      Px_page_item flashlight *#????#*          flashlight
Item 2      flashlight          flashlight
Item 3      flashlight          flashlight
URL      
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