Initializing form fields

I have a form in my application with some fields in. The user enters data in one of the fields which is used as criteria for displaying data on the next screen. When the user returns to the form, I want to blank out the data the user entered initially. I cannot figure out how to do this. Has anyone been able to do this, and if so, how did you do it?
Thanks in advance
Dave

If you have any button on the form that is supposed to reset the form, you will have a procedure in the form generated package like wwv_gensys_x (where x is a number) that calls doReset.
You can conditionally call the wwv_gensys_x procedure from the additional pl/sql section ...before displaying the page to reset all the form fields.

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