How to handle CLOB in Portal Forms

I want to generate a simple form in Portal using CLOB.
Here is a simple example of what i want to do.
I have a table :person_details having columns
name varchar2(30), resume_details clob, picture blob).
Using the wizard if i create the portal form it
shows only 2 columns name and picture. It just doesnt
show resume_details -clob on the screen.
I tried to manually create a field on the form - but then
how do I link it to the database so that i can insert/update
stuff in the database.
Your help is appreciated.

Hi,
CLOB are not supported as sharmila has already told in the previous reply.
what you can do is that create a table with following details.
desc person_details
Name Null? Type
NAME VARCHAR2(30)
RESUME_DETAILS BLOB
PICTURE BLOB
MIME_TYPE VARCHAR2(2000)
And then instead of RESUME_DETAILS bein CLOB make it BLOB.Associate a mime_type field with it.
by doing so you can upload not only text based resumes but also word document,rtf format, and text aswell (can try more combinations).
The mime types for the above types can be as follwing.
Application/msword => for word document.
Text/plain => for text documents.
Text/richtext => for .rtf files.
I have tried all of the above combinations and you can try more combinations.
Hope it helps.
rahul

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