Receiving ora-01461 when trying to insert

Question

Hello,
       I have a form with multiple rows of data, i wrote a loop statement that inserts data into another table.  When i test the statement from SQL prompt, everything works with no problems.  however, when i added to the save button, i am receiving the Ora-01461 error.  why is that?  the description from what i find doesn't seem to fit with what i'm doing.  any thoughts?  I'm using Oracle Forms 10g and writing to an 11g database.
thank you,
steven

Answer 1

commit_form;  --commit the form first so that any changes will be applied to the database, prior to being copied over to destination table.
declare
     cursor c_bullet is
          select SL_3_BULLET_NBR, SL_3_PREFACE_BULLET, SL_3_PREFACE_DATE_INPUT, SL_3_SUB_CAT_NBR
          from PARKER.SL_3_PREFACE_DEFAULTS;
v_bullet_nbr      PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_BULLET_NBR%TYPE;
v_bullet              PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_BULLET%TYPE;
v_date_input     PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_DATE_INPUT%TYPE;
v_sub_cat          PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_SUB_CAT_NBR%TYPE;
v_sl3_idn           PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_IDN%TYPE;
error_msg varchar2(300);
begin
     v_sl3_idn := 'SL-3-11653A'  -- for testing purposes, will be filled from a global variable that the user inputs.
open c_bullet;
loop
fetch c_bullet into v_bullet_nbr, v_bullet, v_date_input, v_sub_cat;
exit when c_bullet%notfound;
if (v_bullet_nbr <= 30) then
     insert into PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET (sl_3_preface_bullet, sl_3_preface_date_input, sl_3_bullet_nbr, sl_3_sub_cat_nbr)
     values (v_bullet, v_date_input, v_bullet_nbr, v_sub_cat);
end if;
commit;
end loop;
close c_bullet;
end;