Trim All Text Field quickly?

Question

Currently i got over +40 textfields which uses DML and the column is 255 VARCHAR
Wondering if there a quick way of trimming all these fields before the update happens.
As of right now im doing it like this... is there way a to grab all textfield and just loop and trim or something simliar....? i was thinking of using javascript and copy paste 40 names in an array and loop trim and set value but that seem ugly to me. as i have to go in to it every time if a new field is needed...
:P1_name := trim(:P1_name)
:P1_boat := trim(:P1_boat)
:P1_book := trim(:P1_book)
:P1_game := trim(:P1_game)
:P1_phone := trim(:P1_phone)
:Px_item := trim(:Px_item)Edited by: PandaOracle on Feb 14, 2012 2:19 PM

Answer 1

Hello PandaOracle,
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PandaOracle wrote:
As of right now im doing it like this... is there way a to grab all textfield and just loop and trim or something simliar....? i was thinking of using javascript and copy paste 40 names in an array and loop trim and set value but that seem ugly to me.
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Instead of JavaScript there is a jQuery solution to you problem. Here is a JavaScript function you can call on your Submit button of your page:
function f_trim_textb() {
  //trim all the text fields
  $('input[type="text"]').each(function() {
   oval = $(this).val();
   tval = $.trim(oval);
   $(this).val(tval);
  //submit the page
  apex.submit({request:"SUBMIT"});
}Refer: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.trim/
Well however this is not the only solution! You can use PL/SQL process that executes before page submit and do thing what you have suggested above:
:P1_name := trim(:P1_name)
:P1_boat := trim(:P1_boat)
:P1_book := trim(:P1_book)
:P1_game := trim(:P1_game)
:P1_phone := trim(:P1_phone)
:Px_item := trim(:Px_item)Yet another solution is setting the attribute Post Calculation Computation in the Source section of Item Attributes to:
trim(:Px_item)Hope it helps!
Regards,
Kiran