Manual Tabular Form Generation in Interactive Reports

Dear All;
I used the following statement to generate a tabular form in an interactive report region;
SELECT
id No,
apex_item.text(1,C1,3,4, ,'f01_#ROWNUM#') C1
from test_table
The no of items on the form depends on the number of rows in test_table. However, I am unable to reference the individual cells in the form. it turns out apex is using the same id for each row( f01_#ROWNUM#) in the generated source code and is not substituting rownum for the row number (eg. f01_1 for first row, f01_2 for second row generated in a normal report template). Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this a bug? I am running on apex 4.0.1
Any assistance will be greatly appreviated.
Benedict.
Edited by: Zulu on Sep 11, 2010 2:16 PM
Edited by: Zulu on Sep 11, 2010 2:29 PM

Hi Trent,
It is working fine now... " You have saved my life and I am eternally grateful" :-) .
Br,
Benedict.
Edited by: Zulu on Sep 12, 2010 7:44 AM

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[http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=26115:3]
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ORA-01116: error in opening database file 17252 ORA-01110: data file 17252: '/u03/oradata/marvlprd/MARVLPRD/datafile/o1_mf_flow_172_23qtsjpr_.dbf' ORA-27041: unable to open file Linux Error: 23: Too many open files in system Additional information: 3
So, as way of an explanation (until Joel gets the Linux process fixed), I have a simple little screen that I use for letting the users specifiy search criteria. Each line has four columns, what field they want to search, a condition (equals or not equals), the text to search for, and an optional 'And/or' argument. If the 'And/Or' gets populated, a new blank line automatically gets created. There is also a red 'X' on each line so they users can delete a line if they want.
Not sure if this is what you need, but this page uses the same set of javascript code, so perhaps when it's working again, you can see if there are any similarities or differences.
Also, for reference, so you can see the code and variables, etc., the workspace is wbfergus, and the id and password are both htmldb-apex.
Bill Ferguson

Manual Tabular Form Formatting Questions

Hello, this is my first time using a tabular form and am now trying to tackle creating a manual tabular form. So, now I have some questions on formatting.
1. Is it proper on this forum to lump several similar questions together or should these be separate postings?
2. I have a hidden column that I do not want to display on the screen at all. However, I need access to the column later when saving. I am currently using the htmldb_item.hidden function to retrieve the field. This works. However, the column still displays but the value does not display. I then tried to uncheck the show attribute for the column to unchecked. Unfortunately, if this is not selected, when using the htmldb_application.g_f01 function, I would receive an error as if the column did not exist. How do I make the column totally hidden so that it does not display at all?
3. I have a number column where I want the column to display in dollars (i.e. $100, 000). I tried to set the number format on the column in the report attributes. However, no luck. To retrieve the column, I am using the function htmldb_item.text to retrieve the column. I am not sure if I should be able to format the column in the report attributes or if the htmldb_item.text function has a parameter that I could use for formatting. Suggestions?
4. Similarily, I would like to right justify this column. How is this accomplished?
Thanks

Hi everyone,
Is there any way to not to display the hidden columns in the manual tabular forms,when we create the manual tabular form using htmldb_item.hidden.
But need to refer that column in the process.
In the wizard generated tabular form if the column is of type HIDDEN we dont see that column on the report.
How can i achieve the same in manual tabular forms..
Thanks

Manual Tabular Form Problem

Apex 3.2
I have written a manual tabular form and it has a validation to check if a column contains negative numbers.
If it does then it returns a validation error.
I also have the same validation in my database procedure which raises
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20000, 'The update procedure does not accept negative numbers.');My problem is withmy page validation.
If the column value was 16 and the user types in, eg, -12, then the validation fires and returns the message.
The problem is that once the message is returned, the column value is reset to the original value, eg, 16.
If I disable my page validation and use my database exception.
Then the error message from the database displays. If I click ok, then the form displays the new value, eg, -12.
I want to use my page validation, but I need the page to show the new value.
I have made all my processes and branches conditional to run only if there are no inline validations displayed,
but this did not affect anything.
Any help appreciated
Gus

Gus C wrote:
It works exactly how I want mine to, without using collections, ie, it keeps the new values in the page.
Unfortunatley I cannot figure out how he does thatUpgraded to 4.2 ;)
One of the differences between version 3 and 4 is that retaintion/caching of the changed values in tabular forms.
In other words in apex 4 the builder takes care of showing the new changed value.
By not fetching the data from the database on a validation error.
Where as in Apex 3 you have to do that when there is a validation error and the message is shown on the same page.
The report fetches the data from the database even when there is a validation error.
There are 2 options
1) Let the validation message be shown on the error page. Going back in the browser history doesn't fetch the data form the database up on rerendering.
This option is mentioned in the thread the demo was inspired by.
2) Work with a collection. Where you take care of the caching. This method gives the posibility to so multiple validation messages where as the "show on error page" shows only one validation message.
Nicolette

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