Passing data to list manager

Question

I'm not sure I know how to do this. so I need some help. I have two screens, one is a list of different items, the other is a name, address, city type edit screen.
I have a list manager (view only) on the first page. I'd like to have it contain the last name, first name displayed and the return value a number. both of these on on the second page as part of its insert. I know I can set the process so that when it completes it can return back to the first screen, and I can pass values. but it seems to only want to pass one value to one item in th page. for example I can pass the last name back top P1_LIST_MANAGER, but how to I pass P3_LAST_NAME, P3_FIRST__NAME, P3_ID_NUMBER to it? also I need the name formated so its like last_name, first_name. I've tried a few things, nothing works, I looked thru the forum can't find much on list manager. so the I really need the help.

Answer 1

Hi,
Firstly, for the format of the names in the list, you can use:
SELECT LAST_NAME || ', ' || FIRST_NAME d, ID_NUMBER r
FROM ....
Secondly, when the user selects an item from this list, the ONLY value known is the ID_NUMBER. Therefore, for you second page to display the first/last name for the selected item, you will need to retrieve them "manually" on that page. So, you can pass the ID_NUMBER value into P3_ID_NUMBER, but you will need to set the Source of the other fields to sql statements that retrieve the name values from the database:
Source Used: Always, replacing any existing value in session state
Source Type: SQL Query
Source value or expression: SELECT LAST_NAME || ', ' || FIRST_NAME FROM .... WHERE ID_NUMBER = :P3_ID_NUMBER
As long P3_ID_NUMBER has a valid value, this will return the name. If P3_ID_NUMBER may not contain a valid value, you may have to adjust this slightly to accommodate this.
You could also handle this using a page computation or process
Andy