More than 100 items in Form or Page

Question

Can Apex allow more than 100 items in a page? I am getting message like
'Item count exceeds maximum of 100'.
Even data entered in the form for extra items over 100 is not posted to database.
Pl help or suggest any workaround.
I am using HTMLDB 2.0

Answer 1

Example:
1. Create the test data
CREATE TABLE "TEST_TABLE1"
("KEY1" NUMBER(10) NOT NULL ,
"DESC" VARCHAR2(24) ,
"OPTION1" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION2" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION3" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION4" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION5" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION6" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION7" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION8" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION9" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION10" VARCHAR2(10) ,
"OPTION11" VARCHAR2(10) ) ;
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (1,'Row 1','Red','Blue','Green','Yellow','Orange','Black','Ivory','Purple','White','Lime','Gray');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (2,'Row 2','Blue','Green','Yellow','Orange','Black','Ivory','Purple','White','Lime','Gray','Red');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (3,'Row 3','Green','Yellow','Orange','Black','Ivory','Purple','White','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (4,'Row 4','Yellow','Orange','Black','Ivory','Purple','White','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue','Green');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (5,'Row 5','Orange','Black','Ivory','Purple','White','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue','Green','Yellow');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (6,'Row 6','Black','Ivory','Purple','White','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue','Green','Yellow','Orange');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (7,'Row 7','Ivory','Purple','White','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue','Green','Yellow','Orange','Black');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (8,'Row 8','Purple','White','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue','Green','Yellow','Orange','Black','Ivory');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (9,'Row 9','White','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue','Green','Yellow','Orange','Black','Ivory','Purple');
INSERT INTO"TEST_TABLE1"
VALUES (10,'Row 10','Lime','Gray','Red','Blue','Green','Yellow','Orange','Black','Ivory','Purple','White');
2. Create a blank page.
3. Create a report region with the following query.
select
"DESC",
htmldb_item.hidden(1,KEY1) Key1,
htmldb_item.text(2,OPTION1,10,10) OPTION1,
htmldb_item.text(3,OPTION2,10,10) OPTION2,
htmldb_item.text(4,OPTION3,10,10) OPTION3,
htmldb_item.text(5,OPTION4,10,10) OPTION4,
htmldb_item.text(6,OPTION5,10,10) OPTION5,
htmldb_item.text(7,OPTION6,10,10) OPTION6,
htmldb_item.text(8,OPTION7,10,10) OPTION7,
htmldb_item.text(9,OPTION8,10,10) OPTION8,
htmldb_item.text(10,OPTION9,10,10) OPTION9,
htmldb_item.text(11,OPTION10,10,10) OPTION10,
htmldb_item.text(12,OPTION11,10,10) OPTION11
from test_table1
4. create a save button which branches to the same page
5. Create a page process that executes the following SQL when the button is pressed:
-- update Record
for i in 1..htmldb_application.g_f01.count
loop
update test_table1
set option1 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f02(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option2 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f03(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option3 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f04(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option4 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f05(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option5 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f06(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option6 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f07(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option7 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f08(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option8 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f09(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option9 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f10(i),'%'||'null%',NULL),
option10 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f11(i),'%'||'null%',NULL)
option11 = replace(htmldb_application.g_f12(i),'%'||'null%',NULL)
where key1 = htmldb_application.g_f01(i);
end loop;
6. Run the page (This page has 110 items)
If you have a table with more than 100 fields, you can try something like this:
Select 1, apex_item.text(1,field1,10,10),
apex_item.text(2,field2,10,10),
union all
Select 2, apex_item.text(1,field11,10,10),
apex_item.text(2,field12,10,10),
, field2, field3, field4, field5