Returning a value from a query into an application item

Question

Hi,
I have a insert statement defined in a process which I require that after inserting some data (from which the primary key is fetched from a sequence within a trigger on the table ra_assessments) that this key is then returned into the application item :GBL_CURRENT_ASSESSMENT. The code I have attempted to use is:
begin
insert into ra_assessments values(
NULL,
--rest of the fields here ) RETURNING id INTO :GBL_CURRENT_ASSESSMENT;
end;
Now, this works fine if I want to return into a page level item (say :P2_ID) however it does not appear to return correctly into an application item. The application item is unrestricted.
Any help/suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

hi,
There is nothing polpulating :P2_ID - I created the page item as a test instead of populating :GBL_CURRENT_ASSESSMENT. So, I then changed the code above to read:
begin
insert into ra_assessments values(
NULL,
--rest of the fields here ) RETURNING id INTO :P2_ID;
end;
which successfully populates :P2_ID with a value. It will not however populate :GBL_CURRENT_ASSESSMENT when I use that in the place of :P2_ID in the example above.
I hope this makes sense! :)
cheers,
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