Send insert request as database user, not APEX public account

Question

I have a simple form where I am trying to insert data into a table. I am using database account authentication to log into app. We are using this table to submit jobs and only certain users can submit certain jobs.This table has a trigger that looks up privledges (in another table) to see if a user is authorized to enter particular data (job).
When I create (insert the data from the form), I get an error (APEX_PUBLIC_USER User is not authorized to submit this request). Since APEX Pub user is not in our authentication table, it errors, which is fine. What I want to happen though, is the request (insert) into the table be sent as the database account user logged in, not APEX pub user account. How do I do this?
Thanks
Jason

Answer 1

Jason,
No problem, we were all new to Apex at some point (outside of the development team that is!).
Take a look at my previous reply, I'm pretty sure that is what is happening, you either have some code in your app using 'USER' or perhaps the trigger itself references it, in which case rather than -
USERit should use -
nvl(v('APP_USER'), USER)Which basically means "if there is an Apex username then use that, otherwise use the Oracle database user".
Without seeing your code it's difficult to say whether this is what's happening or not however, but it's worth looking at.
John.
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