Passing value from Portal Form as parameter to portal report

Question

I have a portal form that I have created using the custom form layout editor to build/modify the display of the form. When I run the form and I have a record queried I would like to be able to click a link and pass the value of a field as a parameter to a portal report. For example, lets say I have a field on my portal form called assignment_id, and after I query a record assignment_id equals 1. I would like to use the value 1 from assignment_id as a parameter to a portal report. I am not sure how to reference the value of a form field, can this be done within the header, body or footer of the custom layout editor? Or can I somehow reference the value of a form field from the Additional PL/SQL Code section?
Has anyone tried this with success? Any info is appreciated.
Regards
Mark

Answer 1

Hi,
You can get the values of the variables from the session variables. Here is an example which gets the value of the field FLIGHT_NO and passes it on to a report.
While accessing the value of a field you should prefix it with "A_" (A_FLIGHT_NO)
declare
flightno number;
blk varchar2(10) := 'DEFAULT';
begin
flightno := p_session.get_value_as_varchar2(
p_block_name => blk,
p_attribute_name => 'A_FLIGHT_NO');
call('SJDEMO30.report1.show?p_arg_names=flightno&p_arg_values='||flightno);
end;
Thanks,
Sharmila