In an Multi Record Block last previous record should be end dated

Question

Hi all,
can any one help me in this,.....
i a multi record block i need to end date the last previous record,..
Thanks
Raj

Answer 1

Raj,
My guess is that you would want the previous record end-dated even if the user uses a Hot-Key to save the record in addition to using the SAVE button. That being the case, I would add or alter the Pre-Insert trigger on the block to update the find the record that does not have an end-date and update the end_date to SYSDATE. This assumes that there will always only be one record that needs to be end dated. If there are more than one, each record will have the end_date updated. Using your data, you can accomplish this a couple of ways. The first would be to simply update the base table using a simple update statement in an Anonymous Block in the Pre-Insert trigger:
BEGIN
   UPDATE verify_table
      SET enddate = sysdate
    WHERE enddate is null;
END;Second, you could loop through the block in the Form and update any records where the enddate is null.
BEGIN
   GO_ITEM('MYBLOCK.FIRST_ITEM');
   FIRST_RECORD;
   WHILE :system.last_record = 'FALSE' LOOP
       IF :myblock.enddate is null THEN
          enddate := sysdate;
          EXIT;
       ELSE
          NEXT_RECORD;
       END IF;
   END;
END;Hope this helps.
Craig...
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