LOVS - How to make one of the values the default value ?

Question

Greetings,
This is a very basic question so, anyonw who has some experience witrh loves can surely help me.
I have a lov which i populate like this:
select 0 as never,00 as nunca from dual
UNION
select rownum,rownum from man_cod_pos where rownum <= 24
UNION
select 36 as never,36 as nunca from dual
UNION
select 48 as never,48 as nunca from dual
UNION
select 60 as never,60 as nunca from dual
UNION
select 72 as never,72 as nunca from dual
UNION
select 84 as never,84 as nunca from dual
UNION
select 96 as never,96 as nunca from dual
UNION
select 108 as never,108 as nunca from dual
UNION
select 120 as never,120 as nunca from dual
order by 1 ASC
This will be the number of months, so 1-24 and after every year hence 36 and so on.
So far so good.
I however have one of this values kept in a database record and after populating the lov i want the value that is selected to be the one which is in the database record.
How do i achieve that?
So far i have been doing it with ajax but i am kinda tired of having to make an ajax call everytime i need to update a LOV and i am sure APEX can handle this.
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Answer 1

First of all thanks to both for the time taken.
I'm gonna be honest here I am unfamiliar with LOVS within apex and pl sql altogether.
In this case the list of possible values will be the one i mentioned earlier so it is static, the only thing that will change will be the default seleced value wich has to reflec the value of the database record.
So are static more beneficial in this case? if so why?
Varad i have atempted to place this in the default value:
select 10 as never,10 as nunca from dual
This is only for testing purposes but it won t place the 10 as the selected value....
I have tried pl sql function body pl sql expression and it doesn t accept any, it only works when i choose a static value.
what am i doing wrong?
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Edited by: Igor Carrasco on May 8, 2009 4:08 PM