Selecting a set of rows in an Interactive Report

Question

Hi,
What I want to achieve is when a row is clicked in an interactive report that row (via a Primary Key/ROWID) is added to a list of IDs to be edited in one go, I will probably use a collection for this, although a colon delimited list might be quicker and/or easier. The two ways I thought of trying to achieve this was by bending the use of the Link Column and providing a Link to Custom Target or using a row selection technique described below.
My initial thought was to make it a check box which then called some JavaScript/On demand process, similar to the one shown here. So far I've tricked it by making the image my check box and the link attributes being my function which returns false to stop the page redirecting when clicked. The problem is I can't seem to get the ROWID to appear, I've tried #ROWID# which simply puts that string as the input, so for example, my "image" is this: <input type="checkbox" value="#PK_ID#" name="f01"/>So, if I could get something meaningful in there instead of ROWID it would work a treat I think.
The alternative method was to use a form of the row highlighting described in this Row Highlighting. The problem here seems to be that for an Interactive Report you cannot change the table row elements to add the onclick. Also when trying this (using Firefox to add the appropriate code to a TR element) it works, as in the function fires, but does not change the appearance of the rows. I lack the CSS/HTML skills to work out why so far.
Worst case I can simply create a checkbox field in the query as per the example above, the only drawback is that the column might not always be available in the report if the user has hidden the column.
Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Gareth.
Edited by: gaz_stephens on Jan 16, 2009 12:09 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
If all of the records are displayed on the report in one go (that is, there is no pagination involved), then you can add the onclick after the table has been created. Add the following into the report's Region Footer setting:
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
function addEvents()
var t = document.getElementById(gTable);
var tRows = t.rows;
var k;
for (k = 1; k &lt; tRows.length; k++)
  tRows[k].onclick = function() {alert('Here');};
addEvents();
&lt;/script&gt;If pagination is involved, then any javascript will not be run when the next page is displayed. The alert('Here'); in the code would need to be replaced with some javascript functionality - probably calling a javascript function that works on the TR's "this" object reference.
Andy