Return formatted text from LOV

Question

I have text stored in a table as a varchar2 with carriage returns in the text using utl_tcp.CRLF. This works fine when I send an email using this text thru a procedure. I am trying to load this text to an unbound item (defined as char) thru an LOV created using Designer (web pl/sql page). The lov lists the text in read-only as formatted, but when I load it to the unbound item, it loses the formatting. I have tried to make a post-gen change to add WSGL.preformat to the javascript:passback function, but I am still not seeing the formatting in the unbound item on my page. Does anyone have any ideas (including post-gen changes to the package)how I might accomplish this?? Any ideas are welcome.

Answer 1

I suspected that...
Maybe someone has an idea for the following:
I need a generic solution for a reference table (based on table name, key and value attribute names). In a function I generate this query statement.
TEXT_FROM_LOV_QUERY would be just fine for me, for it lets me pass a statement as a string and providing me a solution with key/value pairs. However, due to the restrictions above I cannot use that function.
Instead, I'd probably have to join the reference table somehow. I would have suggested the following
SELECT e.empno, e.ename, d.display_value
  FROM emp e,
       f_get_generic_ref_table('dept', 'deptno', 'dname') d
WHERE e.deptno = d.return_valuewhile the function f_get_generic_ref_table generates me a string like
'SELECT deptno, return_value, dname display_value
   FROM dept'obviously that doesn't work since the function f_get_generic_ref_table only returns a statement as VARCHAR.
Any ideas how I could solve that?
Thanks,
Michael