How to get the "delete" check box back?

Question

Hi Guys,
I just used the "Migrate to Interactive Report" feature. After doing so, the check box is gone that is used to indicate rows to delete. A copy of the region is marked as "disabled" and the check box is still there, but it's not in the newly created region. Without that check box, my page has no way to delete rows. How do I add the check box to the new Interactive Report region? I'd rather not re-create the page from scratch.
Thanks,
Kim
P.S. I'm using Apex 4.1 and Oracle 11g xe - all running on Windows 7.

Answer 1

How about something like this? Instead of a check box add a new column with a delete image, you can use something like delete.gif (#IMAGE_PREFIX#delete.gif). The downside is that will be deleting one at a time, but in my experience this may not be an issue.
Add a hidden item to hold the ID of the row your want to delete. We'll call it P1_ID.
The new column with the delete image will need to "branch" to a URL and use this code (ALL in one single line)
apex.confirm("Are you sure you want to delete?", {
  request:"DELETE_ROW",
  set:{"P1_ID":#ID#}
  });Then add a page process that fires when the request is DELETE_ROW
Would probably look something like this:
delete from some_table where id = :P1_ID;
A similar technique can be used for checkboxes, but it's a little more advanced as you need to loop through the selections.
Oh and add the column to the IR you don't really need to select anything. Or better yet, you could re-use the ID column of the report if you have one as your delete column. The #ID# on the code above needs to be the name of your column. So if your column is EMPNO the above would be #EMPNO# instead of #ID#.
Hope this helps.
-Jorge