HTML DB 1.6 (Apex) htmldb_util.set_session_state and Trigger

Question

Hi everybody,
I have two “1.6 HTML-DB applications”: “Number 1” and “Number 2” which I use the same « before insert » trigger.
But, in application “Number 2”, I want to skip some instructions, I want to put a condition.
Firs of all, I would add an element “abc” in the page 1 of application “Number 1” to affect it the “Yes” value and in the page 1 of application “Number 2” to affect it the “No” value.
First of all, I taught to add a condition in the trigger.
begin
If abc = ‘yes’ then
def……..
Xyz……
End if;
Azb…..
Yjn……
End;
But, someone told me to use “htmldb_util.set_session_state”, but I’m not sure to fully understand the reason to use that. Can someone could help me ?
Thanks. Bye.

Answer 1

Firstly, I would never put ApEx page item references directly in a trigger. Surely, you can refer to the underlying column value that's supposed to be coming in rather than a page item. This might mean that you create a separate procedure to do your insert operation but it keeps things a bit cleaner and, to my way of thinking, more manageable.
Second, just null out the value of the page item (with a computation or a process) when you click the create button - after the value has been used and properly inserted into the table.
Earl