How to do a partial refresh of a form and report on the same page?

Question

Hi all,
im trying to make a page where you have a report on top and when you click the link instead going to the form page, the form page is on the bottom of the report. lets say im trying to send an id from the report to the item below so that i could fetch the rest of the item. however when i pass,other items would still refer to this one as null.
if im not mistaken this could be done with submit,but i want it to be partial refresh..
i tried steps here but this only worked when the lower part is a also a report:
https://forums.oracle.com/thread/2345863
i also tried this,but this actually submits a page..
Grassroots Oracle: Apex Tutorial - Form & Report sharing the same page
would it be possible to get a form and report in one page as partial refresh?
Message was edited by: T101_cyberdyne

Answer 1

If so, you need to create a dynamic action with a javascript action to set the id of the report row in the id form field, and a subsequent pl/sql action to fetch the record based on the id. You can use this record to set the other form field items.
For the example in the above link the code looks as follows.
the javascript action:
var empno = $(this.triggeringElement).find('td[headers="EMPNO"]').text()
$s('P26_EMPNO',empno)
the PL/SQL action:
declare
cursor c_emp is
select * from emp
where empno = :p26_EMPNO;
BEGIN
for r_emp in c_emp loop
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_ENAME',r_emp.ename);
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_JOB',r_emp.job);
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_MGR',r_emp.mgr);
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_HIREDATE',to_char(r_emp.hiredate,'dd-mon-yyyy'));
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_SAL',r_emp.sal);
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_COMM',r_emp.comm);
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_DEPTNO',r_emp.deptno);
  APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('P26_ORDNO',r_emp.ordno);
end loop;
END;
Hi Vincent,
Yes! im looking for something similar. This looks interesting. I did look into apex_util.set_session_state yesterday but didnt know how to apply. perhaps i was doing it wrong.
Question though, so basically first use the javascript to send the EMPNO from top report to the EMPNO in the form fields below.
Then based on the EMPNO received in the form, do a loop to get the rest and put it into session. Correct?
if i'm not mistaken i did something similar,but when i tried to set session for the rest,it refers to to the p26_EMPNO still as null..does the javascript sets the id of report to the id of the form or does it just send over?
i'll try it out.
Thanks.