Maintain Report Input State on Validation

Question

Good Morning Everyone,
I have a report region for which I need to maintain input state during validation. I made several attempts to effect this using page and region caching, NULL'ing out the request object (if that means anything), etc. I have searched the forum and Google for answers, but chances are that I perhaps just don't know what to search. Here is a quick run-down. I have a report region with 4 inputs per row (2 drop downs, 2 text fields). The user enters data and then submits the page. When a validation fails, it gives the appropriate message, but overwrites all inputs (rather than caching the user's input and re-displaying). This forces the users to re-enter alllll thaaat daaatta rather than just fixing the couple problems that caused the validation failure. I know this is probably some simple setting or requires a couple processes; I just haven't solved the problem after 3 days of tinkering. Does anyone have any suggestions (simple or otherwise). Really, all I need is to be pointed in the right direction. Sorry for the lengthy post. Thanks.
V/R,
Erik
Edited by: user593880 on Jul 12, 2011 7:08 AM

Answer 1

What version of Apex? Is it a manual tabular form?
In previous versions or in a manual tabular form if you want to keep the changes, you will need to display the validation error on an error page, or create a workaround using collections.
Retaining tabular form values to keep user inputs
Tabular Form Validation - Values Reset