How to update data in third SQL query type report (M-D are first two!)

Question

I have page made through M-D Form wizzard.
Third report (let's call it detail2) shows same fields as detail grid but some fields are "Standard Report column"-not editable as records in detail1 report. WHERE part in both detail reports are opposite. So together details reports show the whole set of detail records but they never show twice the same detail record (they are mutually exclusive).
In detail2 I allow just update on one field "NAME".
I cannot use MRU process-I think it is impossible on such a pages-at least I cannot make it work.
So I tried different approach creating report like:
select
  htmldb_item.hidden(3,ID) IDH,
  htmldb_item.text(4,NAZIV,78) "SADRZAJ"
from "#OWNER#"."MYTABLE"
where "QUESTION_ID" = :P13_ID AND "....mutual condion..."<br>Executing "for i in 1..htmldb_application.g_f04.count loop " I can retrieve values of "Naziv" field-this is not a problem!
But it seems that "ID" from detail2 report is not easy to retrieve....Looks like that first detail is somehow involved!
<br>I tried some things and what I get for now is following. If I execute process like:
for i in 1..htmldb_application.g_f01.count loopI get following result (each row is record):
  2-<input type="hidden" name="f03" value="137" />
  1-<input type="hidden" name="f03" value="734" />, "1" and "2" are ordinal numbers of rows where ID's are "137" and "734". This looks promising but far away from easy referencing!
<br>So my question is: How to retrive those values from output like shown above?? Any other hint is welcome!!
THX!
<br>P.S.
<br>One straight question:
<br>IS THERE ANY DEMO FOR MASTER-DETAIL FORM WITH THIRD REPORT ON IT??
<br>
<br>P.S. II
Collection is probably not a solution because I do not want to update field on other page (like shown in Collection example on Emp table)...

Answer 1

Okay, I understand now.
Using Firefox or doing a View Source, you should be able to find out what the last fXX number is, and when coding your 3rd detail form, start like 10 digits higher, i.e., if the last fXX number is f23, I'd start with probably htmldb_item.text(35....). This approach should work, but I have never tried it.
To me, the basic functionality from the M-D wizard is nice, but adding a third report complicates things enough that I'd probably manually code both the 2nd and 3rd reports. would mean more work with the validations and processes, but I think for this situation it would be more flexible, allowing you greater control. For your manually created detail reports (I'd do both manually), I would skip some numbers between the first and second reports, i.e. first detail report uses htmldb_item.xxxx(1......) through htmldb_item.xxxx(9.....) and then I would start the next detail report as htmldb_itemxxxx.(20....).
Regarding your example, to 'retrieve' the values of the ID column (htmldb_item.hidden(3,ID)), you should be able to get it through the loop process you described above, htmldb_application.g_f03(i).
Like:
for i in 1..htmldb_application.g_f02.count
loop
if htmldb_application.g_f03(i) is not null AND htmldb_application.g_f04(i) is not null then
-- do whatever processing you want to do, insert, updates, etc.
end if;
end loop;
Whatever number you use in the htmldb_item specification is also how yuo refer to it in htmldb_application:
htmldb_item.XXXX(1....) = htmldb_application.g_f01
htmldb_item.XXXX(3....) = htmldb_application.g_f03
etc.
Use the looping mechanism to (I used (i) in my example above) to go through each row and retrieve that row's value.
Sorry if any of the above is already familar to you. Judging by what posts I remember of your's, it seems that some of this you already know, but I guess it's better than assuming you do and leaving some stuff out that you didn't know.
Hope this helps.
Bill Ferguson