LOVs in Portal Custom Form

Question

I am trying to implement an LOV in a custom PL\SQL/HTML form (portlet). Has anyone had any success in doing this?

Answer 1

David,
Here is a sample that is standard PL/SQL and is not portal specific ... it does use the PL/SQL toolkit that is installed with Portal though....
The first procedures creates a drop down LOV that pulls its options from the database. It is based on the SCOTT.EMP tables. Then the second procedure receives the choice and displays the result. You can use this and expand for your specific application.
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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE pass_empno
IS
CURSOR c_select
IS
SELECT empno, ename
FROM scott.emp;
BEGIN
htp.htmlOpen;
htp.headOpen;
htp.title('Passing Information Using a Form Selectbox');
htp.headClose;
htp.bodyOpen;
htp.header(1, 'View Employee Information');
htp.formOpen(OWA_UTIL.GET_OWA_SERVICE_PATH | | 'display_ename');
htp.formSelectOpen('p_empno', 'Please select the employee number to view the name');
for v_select IN c_select LOOP
htp.formSelectOption(v_select.empno);
htp.nl;
end LOOP;
htp.formSelectClose;
htp.para;
htp.formSubmit(cvalue=> 'View Employee Info');
htp.formReset;
htp.formClose;
htp.bodyClose;
htp.htmlClose;
end pass_empno;
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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE display_ename(p_empno IN VARCHAR2)
IS
p_ename emp.ename%TYPE;
BEGIN
htp.htmlOpen;
htp.headOpen;
htp.title('What you want display at top left of browser');
htp.headClose;
htp.bodyOpen;
SELECT ename
INTO p_ename
FROM emp
WHERE empno = p_empno;
htp.tableOpen(cborder=> 'BORDER=1');
htp.tableRowOpen;
htp.tableHeader(htf.bold('Employee Name'));
htp.tableRowClose;
htp.tableRowOpen;
htp.tableData(calign=> 'CENTER',
cvalue=> htf.bold(p_ename));
htp.tableRowClose;
htp.tableClose;
htp.bodyClose;
htp.htmlClose;
end display_ename;
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