Saving item values

Is there some way of saving the value of an item so that it is accessible to the user upon login? Btw, this value would need to differ by user.
Marshall
-Edit-
Meant to post this in the Application Express forum. Please ignore, unless you have a solution, that is.
Marshall

Thanks for the Response Tony.
I tried a similar example in my workspace and it worked fine.
but in my application its not. I cannot import my app here since i have company's confidential things.
I am re-using a previous app and doing modifications according to my requirements.
I checked all the items and process and nothing is clearing the cache. I have no such process in page zero as well.
now I am planning to delete all the unwanted items,processes, and branches in my app. If it still doesn't work, then i will delete the page and re-do it :(
Throw me some light if something doesn't sound good.
Thanks
Daniel

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I have a interactive report(page 2) and a form(page 3). i have upto 30 items in the form and I am updating the records.
my requirement is, the users want the capability to hit the 'apply changes' one or more times and still want to remain in the same page and still see the values they entered till recently. And they can add data to the items further.
Basically, we are doing this to avoid loosing data.
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Thanks for the Response Tony.
I tried a similar example in my workspace and it worked fine.
but in my application its not. I cannot import my app here since i have company's confidential things.
I am re-using a previous app and doing modifications according to my requirements.
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how to retrieve a page item value in another page?
say P55_COURSES_TO_EVALUATE is my page item name and it is a select list.Based on the value selected,in the next page i shd show details related to the selected value and for this i need P55_COURSES_TO_EVALUATE value in the next page.How Do I get it?When I try to retrieve the values it simply returns nothing.
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Could you please tell how you try use it ?
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:P55_COURSES_TO_EVALUATEYou can not access page value in javascript/jQuery from other pages like
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Oracle Version:10g
Forms Version:10g
Hi all,
Good morning to all,I have a multi-record block in a form where one of the items values is been selected from LOV.user can only select the value from LOV.
If once user selects the value from LOV and moves to the next record of multi-record and again selects the value from LOV,i should not allow users to select the previous value from the user so that duplication of records is avoided.
and important note is that i should achieve this before saving it into the database because once saved in the database i can compare the values and hide the previous value.
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This is a common question in the forum! There are several different solutions. Take a look at the following articles. Both will perform the needed duplicate check.
Forms - Record Group Processing (Duplicate Value Checking...
or
Avoid duplicated records in a block
If neither of these solutions work for you, search the forum for other options.
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Error while saving date value in Java dictionary

Hello Everybody,
I got following error while saving date value in one of the fields of the Java table.
Internal error occured in submit request: Error in method updateRequestContact : The object of type java.sql.Date with the value '2005-12-04 08:00:00.0' assigned to host variable 9 is not normalized. It must not contain time components in the time zone running the virtual machine.
I can't find why it is taking time value in the date object.
This value is coming from the RFC as a date value, and I am saving this value in Java dictionary table.
Same code for this was working fine earlier. But, now suddenly it gives error like this.
Even if I provide date on the screen from webdynpro application, this date value can't save in the Java dictionary and gives same error.
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Hi Satyajit,
I am getting date value from the screen of the webdynpro application from date picker control and passing this value in Java dictionary.
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I have dat value in the Date object: <b>target_date</b>
But Now I have made new Date object as following:
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Then I am passing this object to Java dictionary. Still it gives same error.
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Now it works for me.
But I guess this is not the perment solution. It looks very strange. I have used so many date objects at various palces. So, this solution is not the final for me.
I want to findout the main cause of it.
One more thing: This code was working for a mornth or two. But, now suddenly it is giving this error.
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Regards,
Bhavik

Setting an item value before print report in BI Publisher

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Is it possible to know if an item value has changed

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I'm working on a form and need to know if an item value has changed without compare it with database_value of get_item_property. there is a button <save> on the form and i want to know when user click again and again on button save if this item value has changed. thanks for your ideas.

Tabit7 - Posted: Apr 9, 2011 12:15 AMbut sometimes in query mode, the item is not navigable and its vallue changed and the prev_value did not work, perhaps the w-n-i-i do not fire>
If you look up the trigger in the Forms Help system it will tell you if the trigger will fire in Query Mode. The WNII trigger will file in Query Mode where as the Pre-Text-Item trigger does not.
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HamidHelal - Posted: Apr 10, 2011 9:27 AM can you please give an example of u'r idea ? >
First, create a variable that is visible to the entire form. Many people would simply use a GLOBAL variable, but I do not like the limitations of GLOBALs and I don't like the fact that they are visible to the entire Forms sessions, not just my form. I prefer to use a Forms program unit (PU) Package Specification so I can explicitly define the variable data type (eliminates the need to cast the GLOBAL to the correct data type) and the variable only occupies the amount of memory needed to support the variable. Also, when I exit my form, the variable is automatically erased.
/* Sample Forms PU Package Specification */
PACKAGE Form_vars IS
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Iam using Apex4.0 and iam facing some problem. Iam unable to send selected list item value to the url specified in the HTMl region.
Here i want to open the data related to list item value in other page.
List item - :Familyp
i want to pass this selected value to the url and when ever user selected the list item and clicks on the url, then it should display the item value related data in new page.
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Is it any possibility to bring the session state and an item value to a table?
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Hi,
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Not directly. You can have two items and then dynamically switch between those two items. This can lead to other issues of cause. For example if the item value should be stored in the database, you have to decide which item to store and how to do that.
The field type itself should not be changed. There are a lot of other things that depend on that. Possible ? Yes. Advisable? No. Check the page source text to see the difference between a select item and a normal text field. Then think if you want to set all this dynamically.
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