Insert Loop through a Report or Insert using a Column Link

Question

Hello!
I think I have an easy one.
I have created a site that tracks "issues" with the curriculum of a university's courses. If a curriculum developer sees something that must be updated, they use this site to log the "issue" so we have a running list of how the curriculum has changed for the particular course or courses. Some "issues" span multiple courses, so a table was created to allow the issue to be associated with as many courses as necessary.
The "Courses" table holds a list of all courses at the university
The "Issue_Courses" table combines the primary key for the "issue" and the "course" and creates the association between issues and courses.
The page users use to create the associations has a report called "add_courses" which is searchable and filterable so the user can narrow down the list of courses they want to view (the list is well into the thousands), and this report contains a column with check boxes. This page also contains a hidden field containing the primary key for the issue, "p13_Issue_ID"
I would like to create an insert statement that grabs the primary key for the issue from "p13_issue_ID" and loops through the report, inserting a new record for each checked box in the report. Any assistance would be great! Admittedly, my sql is pretty week.
Another option that I think would work, if possible, would be to have a "column link" that simply runs the insert process by grabbing the issue primary key from "p13_issue_ID" and the course id from the report. Then, the user could simply click on an "Add" link or something similar on the report, which would run the insert statement, and basically create that association. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: 846852 on Mar 23, 2011 3:12 PM
Edited by: 846852 on Mar 23, 2011 3:14 PM

Answer 1

Start with adding a checkbox column to the report in page (13 ??)
select apex_item.checkbox(1,course_id) CHECK
       ,course_name
FROM courses
I assumed that course_id is the PK of the courses table , if not change the column names appropriately
In report attributes of the "CHECK" column, change the column type to "*Standard Report Column*" (important).
Now you should see a report with courses lists and checkboxes to choose them, You can also do the same with an interactive report(if you want to use it features to filter down records)
Inorder to process the records create a PLSQL process that loops over the selected records(courses) and creates the relation in the Issue courses table using the hidden item and checked course primary key(course_id above)
DECLARE
  ln_course_id NUMBER;
BEGIN
  FOR 1 IN 1..APEX_APPLICATION.G_f01.COUNT
  LOOP
    ln_course_id := APEX_APPLICATION.G_f01(i);
    --Insert new relation using Issue Id and course ID
    INSERT INTO ISSUE_COURSES(course_id,issue_id) VALUES( ln_course_id,:P13_ISSUE_ID);
  END LOOP;
END;If you have a submit/save button , make the process conditional for that button.