Select List (Parent/Child) LOV

I have the Easy Oracle HTML-DB book, they give an example of a
Parent Child Select List using a query.
Does anyone know how to apply the Parent/Child relationship with
a List of Value generated from a table.
Example
Parent Child
Car Pontiac
Car Buick
Car Cadillac
Car Nissan
Truck Tahoe
Truck Silverado
Truck F150
Truck Titan
The parent(s) in the above example are Car/Truck, the children are in the adjacent column.
Objective: When the parent "Car" is chosen, only the "Pontiac/Buick/Cadillac/Nissan" will be available, once the child is selected,
wish to submit to a empty table that can grow dynamically.
OS: Windows: XP
Oracle ver.: 10g
Apex ver.: Release 2

Hi,
are you just having one table storing all the values?
1) Create a "Select list with Submit"
2) Lov query would be something like
SELECT DISTINCT
       CAR_TYPE AS D
     , CAR_TYPE AS R
FROM WHATEVER_TABLEThe distinct is only because you have mixed your parent and child values in one table instead of having two separate tables with a FK from the child to the parent.
3) Create another "Select List"
4) Lov query would be something like
SELECT CAR AS D
     , CAR AS R
FROM WHATEVER_TABLE
WHERE CAR_TYPE = :P2_CAR_TYPE-> in the where clause you restricting the second lov with the value the user has selected in the first select list.
The first "Select List with Submit" will trigger a full page refresh when you select a car type. If you want to avoid that you can use the AJAX based "Cascading Lov" feature of my ApexLib Framework (see http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=33231:4 ) or search on the forum for "cascading lov ajax" for other similar solutions.
Patrick
My APEX Blog: http://inside-apex.blogspot.com
The ApexLib Framework: http://apexlib.sourceforge.net
The APEX Builder Plugin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/apexplugin/

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You should post this in the APEX forum.
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Leo,
Thanks for the response, but I don't think you quite understand my problem. If I go to the Column Attributes screen for the group_id field, I have the "Display As" drop down set to "Select List (query based LOV)", not "Select List (named LOV)". This requires that the sql query be written in the "List of values definition" text area below. Within that text area I have the following query:
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Hi,
If you download application you can see source.
I have not write any instructions, sorry.
If you are on Apex 4 you can just load jQuery UI autocomplete library and take ideas from my app.
If you download my sample in zip there is uncompressed htmldbQuery library.
You can see that and take only function htmldbAutocomplete.
Then check jQuery UI document
http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#method-search
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Regards,
Jari

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Okay, I just had the right idea and it's working well! Sorry for posting!
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report error:
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Leo,
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FROM APPLICATION_GROUPS
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Kris

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report error:
ORA-20001: Error fetching column value: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
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Hi Andy,
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apex_item.display_and_save(2,column2,5) col2 ,
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OK, thank you.
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Leo,
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FROM APPLICATION_GROUPS
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ORDER BY 1
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Hopefully this explains it a little better.
Thanks,
Kris

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Hi,
I have one page with interactive report showing username with links, date and
database actions.
Another page contains one region having flash chart based on select list with submit Lov.
The lov is created by dynamic query.
Every time when i click the 1st page report link, the 2nd page lov is populating the value automatically. But the problem is chart displays NO DATA FOUND message though the LOV has many values.
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begin
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return 'select distinct owner schema1, owner schema2 from auditing
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end;
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select null link, obj_name label, sum(sel_count) "Select", sum(ins_count) "Insert", sum(upd_count) "Update", sum(del_count) "Delete" from auditing
where username=:p11_username
and access_date=:p11_access_date
and owner=NVL(:p11_schema, OWNER)
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Thanks.

Hi Scott,
Thanks for your reply.
I found out the solution for this problem as below.
But i did it in different way to tackle the dynamic query wich returns more than one record using rownum always the 1st record when it is empty instead of assigning constant (static) value like '1'. And i am returning LOV itself for both null or not null condition as below.
Declare
q varchar2(4000);
begin
if :p11_schema is null then
q:='select distinct owner schema from auditing';
q:=q || ' where username=:p11_username ';
q:=q || ' and access_date=:p11_access_date ';
q:=q || ' and rownum<2 order by owner';
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end if;
return :P11_SCHEMA;
end;
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Thanks for ur reply.But my problem is that i have a table having details of some products which includes spareparts also(Name,id,price etc).In my form i have the combobox field which should have a list of these products which the user can select.Now depending on the user's profile he should see only his related products(One profile of users should view only the products but not the spares while the other should view only spares.)The details of both the products and spares are in the same table.we have a criteria to differentiate between the products and the spares.The LOV should display at run time, either products or spares depending on his profile as he logs in. Hope u understood my problem.
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Altering your Product Table and adding one more database Column say Product_Category and updating the table with Product Category =1 for Products and 2 for Spares. You can extend this further for other types.
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I have a parent/child select list implemented using APEX only, ie no AJAX.
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Anyone?
Even an acknowledgment that this should be obvious to me, or that it is not currently possible would be of assistance.
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Issue Description:
in Action BC (Table: S_EVT_ACT) we are trying to implement the following organization based parent child picklists/LOVs for Status->Status Reason
[Status] - Activity Status field (col: EVT_STAT_CD)
*Picklist: LOV Type = 'EVENT_STATUS', picklist BC: 'List Of Values Dynamic (REL)'
[LN Status Reason] - customised field/column (Col: X_STATUS_REASON)
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in the Admin-Data LOVs:
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Display Value/LIC = "Reason 2", Parent LIC = "Not Achieved", Organization = "Org 1"
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Thanks

This is exactly what I'm looking for...I just can't make it work. I have 2 tables (database and schema). They are related via a database_id column. My code is below if you are willing to help.
HTML Header
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FROM (SELECT schema, schema_id, database_id
FROM schema_lookup
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Hi,
See this link: http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:234:3947371667335265:::RP,::
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Changing a column in a tabular form to 'select list (named lov)' gets the following error in HTMLDB 2.0 when you try to add a row (to an empty table in my case):
PL/SQL error at column 133.
Create a table and then create a tabular form on it. Then change a report column to be a 'select list (named lov)'. Save and run the form and the error occurs.
Thanks!
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Brian,
This example:
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:176
and this example:
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:160
may help you.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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