How do I capture selected record ID when I pressed the Button

Question

Hi
I have a repdort with below query.
select
empno, ename, job, sal,
'<input type="button" value="Employee" />' "Select"
from emp
This query gives each row a button. When I press a button of a particular row I wanted to capture that row empno field value. How can I do this?
Regards
kiran Akkiraju

Answer 1

If you are trying to make the button do a submit to this page or another page to see employee detail, you are probably better off creating a link on you column in the "Report Attributes" section that will make the column a hyperlink (text or image, you can pick) (see How can i make a linking column in a report it has a link to a how-to from Oracle and some HTML formatting hints to make the link more informative with ALT text)
Here is one way to capture the selected employee number. Hopwever, it will not submit the form though. You can put the value of empno into another field using javascript. The Pxxx_destination_field is the name of the field on the page you want to push the empno into.
select
empno, ename, job, sal,
'<input type="button" onclick="javascript:html_GetElement(''Pxxx_destination_field'').value = ' || empno || ';" value="Employee" />' "Select"
from emp