Is there a way to use a date field and conditionally change its LABEL?

Question

Hi I have 2 date select lists and desire to change the label text at runtime.
If I use it for one query it would be Order Date, another it would be Start Date.
?? BillC

Answer 1

Vikas,
...a page template is a special case since everything is finally rendered on a page.Don't know what you mean.
references in page templates probably get evaluated first...References in page templates get replaced with their session state values when the portion of the page template containing the references is rendered, e.g., before the box, inside the box, after the box, in the footer..., and within each section each item reference is replaced "when it is encountered" with the current value of the item from session state.
There is a Before Footer computation that sets that item to the current timestamp.I see an "After Regions" computation. On your page, the form item is rendered using the current (from the previous page request) value of the item in session state. Then your compuation sets a new value. Then the remaining sections of the page template (after the regions) are rendered and you see the newly computed value in the footer section of the template.
Is there a way to pass in the current form item name to the shortcut so that I can have a generic shortcut that returns a different value for the label depending on which item it is being invoked from?Starting in XE and now in 2.2, you can use the strings #CURRENT_FORM_ELEMENT#, #CURRENT_ITEM_ID#, and #CURRENT_ITEM_NAME# in shortcuts. This makes PL/SQL Function shortcuts such as the following possible:  if '#CURRENT_ITEM_NAME#' = 'P2_ENAME' then
    return ('employee name');
  elsif '#CURRENT_ITEM_NAME#' = 'P2_JOB' then
    return ('job');
  else
    return ('foo');
  end if; Scott