Pop up based on selected rows

Question

Hi,
I have a multi-row select report with checkboxes. I would like to have it so you can check off your desired rows and click a button to have another window popup with the row information displayed in a different layout. The reason I am doing this is because I want to print specific rows (3 at a time, actually) in a particular format (ie not horizontally). I can get this to work with static fields in the region but cannot make the leap to multi-row select.
I'm thinking it's a combination of passing htmldb_application.g_f01 to pick the checked rows and then have javascript loop through the values in the report and place them in fields on the pop up. I found other postings, but they were for update of the multiple rows: I'm looking to just copy the text from the rows themselves to another window.
Is this possible?
I want a specific format to print out data in non-row fashion for a select set of data.
Does this make sense?
Thank you,
Dean

Answer 1

I believe I was getting caught up because I was trying to mix server side and client side functions.
I ended up doing two things slightly different.
Created a new small table to house my selections:my_print.
I had check boxes on the rows and an after submit process that would delete the rows in the selection table and insert the key values of those selected.
BEGIN
DELETE from MY_PRINT;
FOR i in 1..HTMLDB_APPLICATION.G_F01.count
LOOP
INSERT INTO MY_PRINT (CARD_ID) VALUES (HTMLDB_APPLICATION.G_F01(i));
END LOOP;
END;
Then when I added a Submit "Print" button that took you to another page. That page was a print-friendly formatted report which selected the rows off the my_print keys. To get the format I ended up modifying the report template behind the page. This required a little trial and error with the different template types but I got what I wanted with a vertical named template and custom HTML tagging on the Row Template to build the page like a table.
It's all server side now and loads within the page, rather than a pop-up.
It accomplished the ultimate goal of being able to print selected rows in a format I liked. Plus, doing it this way was way easier than trying to code it all with a pop-up.
good luck
dean