I have developed a little tool to help with Dynamic Tabular Forms....

I have created a little framework which will help people to develop dynamic actions in tabular forms.
It currently only supports text and display only but if necessary I'm willing to expand this little tool...
You can find it here: http://linuxservernico.no-ip.info:8888/JSON_Tabular_form.zip
Please let me know of what you think about it and how to improve it...
To be continued,
Nico

The problem is that APEX doesn't support dynamic actions and plugins on a tabular form (not yet).
For now my implementation is just on overloading of the apex_item implementation of apex.
Check the readme.txt for installation it isn't that hard but you need to understand the context.
Thnx for the positive response
Br,
Nico

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executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
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A tabular form could be appropriate, however it seems like most of your example tabular forms, have already generated records. (ie http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:170:4031429456413649::NO ).
Would it make sense to prepare the form by inserting values into the table just before displaying the form.
something like (in psudocode)
select ID from ITEMS into l_items;
INSERT INTO PREFERENCES (ITEM_ID)
VALUES (l_items)
I have a trigger on Preferences that inserts v('APP_USER') into the USERNAME column.
If I did this the form could display
select     "ITEMS"."NAME" as "NAME",
     "PREFERENCES"."PREFERENCE" as "PREFERENCE"
from     "ITEMS" "ITEMS",
     "PREFERENCES" "PREFERENCES"
where "PREFERENCES"."ITEM_ID"="ITEMS"."ID"
NAME would be displayed as TEXT
PREFERENCE would be an LOV
USERNAME would be hidden
Thanks for your help.
-Sam

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