How to create a field with combo or check box group in a form

Question

1 - i created a database table messages (sender_name , date , message_type , message_body)
message type accept only COMPLAINT , SUGESSTION OR OPENION
2 - I created a form which has a field called message_type
3 - i want the message type appear in the runtime as a checkbox group or as combo box (with values COMPLAINT , SUGESSTION OR OPENION)
PLEASE GUIDE ME STEP BY STEP TO DEVELOP IT
Regards
Mohamed Hammed

Answer 1

Hi,
You can create another table to hold the unique values COMPLAINT, SUGESSTION and OPINION. You can then dynamically query this table in a Dynamic Page & construct the HTML code within a function like this :-
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION FN_GET_RADIO_OPTIONS
RETURN VARCHAR2
AS
ln_return_html VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
FOR rec IN ( SELECT ROWNUM,MESSAGE_TYPE FROM SCOTT.MESSAGES_TYPES )
LOOP
ln_return_html := ln_return_html || '<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=rd'||rec.ROWNUM||' VALUE='||rec.MESSAGE_TYPE||' />';
END LOOP;
RETURN ln_return_html;
END;
/You can then get something out of Dynamic Page like this :-
<ORACLE>
DECLARE
ln_SQL VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
ln_SQL:= FN_GET_RADIO_OPTIONS;
HTP.P(ln_SQL);
END;
</ORACLE>Of course, you do the same in a million other ways - using Java, etc - this is just an example to give you an idea.
Regards,
Sandeep