Poplist items not enabled for creating new records

Question

In a multirow block where you can create a new record by clicking an item in an empty record, you can't click a poplist item: they are not enabled until a record is created. I's not a big deal but it makes the user experience somewhat inconsistent and awkward especially when the poplist item is the first one in the record. You also can navigate to it by tabbing from the last item of the previous record, only the mouse click doesn't work.
Any workarounds? This is Forms 10.1.2.3.0 and the behavior is the same using Jinitiator or Sun JRE.

Answer 1

Hi,
Okk, you will have to do two things. Create two trigger on block level on which you want to do your changes.
1. First trigger. (PRE-UPDATE)
In pre-update trigger u will have to write the complete insert statement into the same table with new req id. like
DECLARE
vReqNo DATA_TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT MAX(REQ_ID)
INTO vReqNo
FROM your_table;
INSERT INTO your_table
(req_no, fields....)
VALUES
(vReqNo, :forms_values);
END;
2. Create 2nd trigger on block level (ON-UPDATE)
write in this trigger
NULL;
for viewing the inserted record. What u have to do is in ON-UPDATE after null; create one timer NO_REAPEAT.
and in timer u will have to set the block property to req_id = generated_req_id_from_pre_update_trigger and
execute_query;
hope it will work...
-Ammad