How to ensure that refreshed page is displayed after an update?

Question

I have a page with “Form” region. I’ve used “Table” for “Create a data entry form based on”. The form works as it should, but I have set the same page to go to after “Save” or “Apply Changes” button is pressed. Now whenever I change any field at the page via my form I get back to the same page, but the changes are NOT visible. I need to go to a different page and then back to my page with table form to see new/updated data.
Is there a way of enforcing the refresh/re-query of the data after I click on Apply Changes/Save button?
jarola has suggested the following topic: Branch to URL identify session and record ID
However, when I follow the suggestion and add "Optional URL Redirect" to the same page (76) for "Apply Changes" button, and configure "Set These Items" with "With These Values" then the values entered via the form are NOT saved at all. If I remove "Optional URL Redirect" (I set "Target is a" to "- No Target -") then the data is at least saved when I click on "Apply Changes".
Thank you for your time.
Daniel

Answer 1

I am gathering that what you want is for the user to make some changes, save the data, and be left with a refreshed page showing the new values, right?
I order to save the data, the form usually has to perform some kind of submit action. Therefore, do not use a URL redirect. The only time you can use that is if your URL redirect calls javascript which in turn does a submit. But if you just redirect, no submit is done.
Make sure whatever the user does to initiate processing is doing a submit. This usually is by clicking a button whose action is "no target" (this equates to some sort of submit action).
Then, make sure this submit action invokes whatever process it is that does the save to the database. Check the row processng that was created during the wizard creation of the form and make sure that any conditions on it are such that it fires based on your request value or the button in question being pressed.
(Actually this brings up a question...if after the save action, can you see updated data in the database via SQL*Plus or SQL*Developer (or whatever database query tool) but just not in Apex? This will at least tell you if the data is being saved and it's just an application presentation issue or not.)
Then, make sure any proper page branches are firing. Again, look at the conditions and/or button-pressed settings. I think for this sort of thing I would clear the cache for your page via the page branch settings, and then do a "set these items..." and "with these values..." such that you are setting the PK values of the record with the existing PK values of the record you are dealing with. (I guess this assumes this form does the usual automated row fetch during loading if the PK values are not null. Is this the case?)