Need a solution on which page template to opt for my requirement..

Question

Hi Forum,
I need a solution how to proceed with this requirement.
I need a Two pages on my application
First Page : It need to be displaying approx 7 to 10 cloumns of data from 5 tables based on QUERY1, out which one is the hyper link to the second page ( say JOBNUM as one of the column ). These data are located in a flat database.There are no PK in the tables. Once you click on the JOBNUM it needs to navigate to the second page displaying data based on a QUERY2 which runs with the JOBNUM we clicked and the clumns on the second page needs to be alligned as per my design. Example is shown below.
DATA1 DATA2 DATA3
DATA4
DATA5 DATA6
I started this by designing a FORM ON REPORT.
The first page which is report is fine displaying data and I changes one of the columns JOBNUM on the first page to Hyperlink onto 2 page ( FORM ). But now I need some help from the forum how to generate that FORM page based on
1) on a SQL query which runs on 5 tables
2) and the JOBNUM selected as this JOBNUM is in those 5 tables
and How to change the allignment of the cloumns on the form
Thanks for your time and help in advance.
Krishna.

Answer 1

Krishna...
When you ask about creating page two as a FORM page, are you wanting the ability to update the record(s) that are queried from those five tables? If so, you'll more than likely need to build the page by hand without using one of the wizard options that do all the DML for you. If you are updating information of just one of those tables, you should include the ROWID of the table you wish to update in your query since you said there is no PK on any of those tables. You can easy store the ROWID in a hidden item on the page. If you wish to update more than one table, you should include all of the ROWIDs of each table with different aliases. Then your page processing needs to be savvy to which columns were updated in order to perform update statements against each table individually using the appropriate ROWID.
If you are not updating and simply want to display the information in a report region and the query on page 2 will be retrieving more than one record based on your JOBNUM parameter, you could look into using a custom region template that you build using a combination of standard HTML tags and special Application Express placeholder tags. An example of this is in the Aria People Search packaged application found at this link, http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/packaged_apps/packaged_apps.html, and look at (hopefully) page 2. There is a report region on one of the main pages that displays a lot of information about a person and uses a custom region template that positions the resulting columns of a query into specific locations in of a table. Not necessarily positioned exactly like how you want it, but the concept is the exact same -- you can use HTML [table] [table] syntax to put the results of your query into specific locations.
Hopefully I have not completely misunderstood your request.
Shane.