Slight AJAX select list issue, hopefully....

Question

I have probably looked at every example that uses AJAX to populate select lists that is out there and finally got one almost completely working.
In my app I use a Form on page 23 to create a record and then also use a form on page 22 to update a record. On both of these pages i have 2 select lists that use AJAX to populate each other. On my Create Form page, these two select lists display properly and submit properly to a report page.
Now, when i click on that record that i just created from the report page, i am taken to the update page(page 22) where all items that i just submitted are properly displayed except the second select list. The second select list does display the correct list of items within the select list, just not the one that i had just selected. What is being displayed is the very first option in the select list, no matter what i had selected when i created the record. What in my code would always make the first option display no matter what?
Thanks
Deanna
For example:
My current ouput:
Pg.23(Creating the record)
Parameters:
:P23_CASE_NUMBER--------------------------9999999999
:P23_CONT_FACTOR_CATEG--------------Driver Distracted By
:P23_CAUSES-----------------------------------Other Electronic Devices
Pg.22(Updating the record)
Parameters:
:P22_CASE_NUMBER--------------------------9999999999
:P22_CONT_FACTOR_CATEG--------------Driver Distracted By
:P22_CAUSES-----------------------------------Mobile(cell)phone(WRONG)(First option in list)
Output I should see:
Pg.23(Creating the record)
Parameters:
:P23_CASE_NUMBER--------------------------9999999999
:P23_CONT_FACTOR_CATEG--------------Driver Distracted By
:P23_CAUSES-----------------------------------Other Electronic Devices
Pg.22(Updating the record)
Parameters:
:P22_CASE_NUMBER--------------------------9999999999
:P22_CONT_FACTOR_CATEG--------------Driver Distracted By
:P22_CAUSES-----------------------------------Other Electronic Devices(CORRECT)
Current code from page 22(Update Page):
This is from the Header HTML
<script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">
function get_TASK_SELECT_XML(pThis,pSelect){
var l_Return = null;
var l_Select = $x(pSelect);
var get = new htmldb_Get(null,$x('pFlowId').value,
'APPLICATION_PROCESS=TaskXML',0);
get.add('WORK',pThis.value);
gReturn = get.get();
gReturn = get.get('XML');
if(gReturn && l_Select){
var l_Count = gReturn.getElementsByTagName("option").length;
l_Select.length = 0;
for(var i=0;i<l_Count;i++){
var l_Opt_Xml = gReturn.getElementsByTagName("option");
appendToSelect(l_Select, l_Opt_Xml.getAttribute('value'),
l_Opt_Xml.firstChild.nodeValue)
get = null;
function appendToSelect(pSelect, pValue, pContent) {
var l_Opt = document.createElement("option");
l_Opt.value = pValue;
if(document.all){
pSelect.options.add(l_Opt);
l_Opt.innerText = pContent;
}else{
l_Opt.appendChild(document.createTextNode(pContent));
pSelect.appendChild(l_Opt);
</script>
This is the application process - TaskXML
begin
owa_util.mime_header('text/xml', FALSE );
htp.p('Cache-Control: no-cache');
htp.p('Pragma: no-cache');
owa_util.http_header_close;
htp.prn('<select>');
htp.prn('<option value="' || -1 || '">' || ' - Select-' || '</option>');
for rec in (select cause , cause
from cause where categ = :WORK)
loop
htp.prn('<option value="' || rec.cause_number || '">' || rec.cause || '</option>');
end loop;
htp.prn('</select>');
end;

Answer 1

Hello Deanna,
Is the "select cause, cause" statement a typo?
for rec in (select cause , cause
              from cause where categ = :WORK)
loop
   htp.prn('<option value="' || rec.cause_number || '">' || rec.cause || '</option>');
end loop;
htp.prn('</select>');
end;If not, the list you're seeing could possibly be the result of the LOV defined for P22_CAUSES, assuming there is one.
- Alwyn