Submit a page when ColumnLink is clicked

Question

I have a form and a report on the same page. The form contains details of a selected record and the report displays all comments specific to that record (master - detail).
The report has a column link so that the comments can be edited. When I click on the column link, the page gets redirected (not submitted). As a result I lose all changes that I have made on the form. Is there a way to submit the page and then redirect via the column link?
Thanks in advance,
Ghazi

Answer 1

Thanks Farhan.
Like you pointed out, I had to use javascript to accomplish this.
Below are the steps I did:
1. Created a new button called EDIT2 and added branch that navigates to my desired page (instead of column link redirecting to the page it is now done via the branch).
2. Created the below javascript
function setCommentIDandSubmit(commentID){
document.getElementById('P0_CID').value=commentID;
doSubmit('EDIT2');
This javascript assigns the ID of the selected row to a hidden variable in Page 0.
It then submits the page with EDIT2 request.
3. The pl/sql process that does my update was earlier tied to the APPLY_CHANGES button. I changed the condition to "Request is contained in Expression1" and the values in expression1 are APPLY_CHANGES,EDIT2
4. Changed the column link to a URL i.e.
javascript:setCommentIDandSubmit(#ID#)
And it appears to work now. Every time I save the form or edit a comment, the data on the form is being saved. Can you think of any drawbacks to this approach?
Regards.
Ghazi