Using Standard Windows Select Methods On Interactive Report

Question

I have an interactive report. Right now I have a check box on each row to select the row. However, this means to select 10 rows you have to click 10 times. I would like to make it possible to use standard Windows select methods - click first row, hold shift key, and click 10th row to result in 10 rows selected. I haven't found how to do this in Apex but I assume it is possible. Thoughts? I googled but maybe not looking for the right thing as I find lots but not what I am looking for.

Answer 1

Hi,
you could do something like this:
1) Create IR report like
select 
  apex_item.checkbox(1,empno,'UNCHECKED') foo,
  "EMP"."EMPNO" as "EMPNO",
  "EMP"."ENAME" as "ENAME",
  "EMP"."SAL" as "SAL"
from 
  "EMP" "EMP"2)In you page properties put following code in
a)Function and Global Variable Declaration:
In this code I reference f01, because in select I use apex_item.checkbox(1,......
function isKeyPressed(event)
  var target = event.target ? event.target : event.srcElement;
  if (target.name=='f01'){
    if (event.shiftKey==1){
      i_start = -1;
      i_end = -1;  
      i_swap = -1;     
      end_val = target.value;
      cb = document.getElementsByName('f01');
      for (i=0; i <= cb.length - 1;i++){
        if (cb.value == end_val)
i_end = i;
if (cb[i].value == start_val)
i_start = i;
if (i_start > i_end){
i_swap = i_start;
i_start = i_end;
i_end = i_swap;
for (i=i_start; i < i_end;i++){
if (cb[i_start].checked == true)
cb[i].checked = true;
if (cb[i_start].checked == false)
cb[i].checked = false;
else{
start_val = target.value;
b)Page HTML Body Attributeonmousedown="isKeyPressed(event)"
You can check example on http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=60428:9
Regards,
  Aljaz