Please find solution for this problem ...pl/sql table problem

Question

Hi
I am using forms 6i. Now i am having a form to insert purpose. which contain 70 fields to enter. that is there are 10 screens contain 10 fields each. Each screen contains two buttons 'next' and 'previousscreen'. Now what my problem is after entering the 20 fields and i am entering 27th field in 3rd screen i noticed that i did a mistake in 2nd field value which is in 2nd screen. when i moved from third scrren to first screen by using pushbutton previous screen. all data in second and third screen has gone. For this i used a pl/sql table and put the code in 'nextscreen' button. the code is
declare
type emptabtype is table of :emp%rowtype
index by binary_integer;
emptab emptabtype;
begin
insert into emptab values(:emp.eno,:emp.ename.....so on);
commit;
end;
The above is the approach i used. but not successful. Is the approach followed by me is correct (I strongly believe that some mistake is there). If not, pls tell me what to do for my problem. What my ultimate requirement is i should not loss the data entered in the fields even when i modify any data on any screen.
I hope you people understand my problem
Thanks in Advance,
bigginner in forms
prasanth a.s.

Answer 1

Hi there,
I have a form which has over 150 fields (from 4 tables). I have used a tab-canvas form to handle all the input - 2 screens for the fields from the first table and 1 screen each for the remaining 3 tables. I can navigate between the tabs without trouble. When everything is done, the contents of the screens are saved to the database via a menu item. Most of the fields are database items.
My point is that Oracle Form has no problems in handling
such processing and I am only using its normal default capabilities.
What type of canvas are you using? There should be no reason to use buttons to navigate betweeen screens if you are using a tab-canvas form. You should not have to use PL/SQL table to handle the data if the fields are normal database columns.
Regards,
John