I'd like to add a button to my APEX application that asks me for a variable's value and runs an Oracle function with that variable.
Is it possible?
To me, a simpler option is to create an item (that's "ask for a variable's value") and a button which - when pressed - runs a process which calls the function, passes item's value to it and returns the result somewhere (another page item, for example):
:P1_RESULT := f_my_function (:P1_TEXT_ITEM);
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I have a very simple Oracle Apex app. I created a button on the home page. I also created a second page using the "Form" template, and the source for this form is a table in the local database.
I set the button to open the form, and I passed the value of the primary key of this form (it's a column called ID) from the home page to the form page, as this screenshot of the button's behavior shows (3 is the page number of the form, P3_ID is the page item in the form associated with the primary column "ID", and 1 is the value that I passed for P3_ID):
The table that the form references is empty, i.e. there is no row with ID equal to 1. Meaning I want to pass the value of 1 to this form so that it automatically create a row with ID of 1 after the user fills out the rest of the form. Here is the form page:
Now the error. When I run the app and press the button, I get this error:
The error says it's from the process called "Initialize form Warcraft Particulars". I searched everywhere and I couldn't find a process by that name anywhere in the app. What am I doing wrong?
Pre-rendering process (in a form) will try to execute query and fetch a row whose ID = 1; as it doesn't exist, Apex raises the no_data_found error. That's why you got it (the error).
Moreover, you're doing it wrong - don't pass ID you'd want to create, fill it in form's process (or use a database trigger which will put a sequence number into the ID column, or use an identity column if your Oracle database supports it (12c onward)).
Furthermore, I'd suggest a slightly different approach: don't create a form that's alone in the Universe. Approach that lets you both view existing data, update (or delete) it and insert new rows is to use a Wizard and choose a report with a form. Exact naming is different from one Apex version to another; for example, current apex.oracle.com Apex version is 22.2 and it offers "Interactive report", while the 1st Wizard page lets you choose whether you want (or not) to include a form page (you'd say "Yes").
Anyway: once you find the correct option, choose it and wizard will then create an interactive report page you'd use to
view current data
it has an edit icon at the beginning of each row which - when pressed - navigates to the form page where you can edit values or delete entire row
create new row (by pressing the "Create" button)
and a form page which does what I described a moment ago.
I’m new to Oracle Form 12c. I’m trying to get the cursor to return back to the location it was when the user returns to that canvas from another canvas. How would I achieve this?
That "location" is, basically, the item.
It means that you'll first have to "remember" where you were; to do so, use :SYSTEM.TRIGGER_ITEM system variable and store its value into a parameter or a global variable.
Then do whatever you're doing and - once you're done - navigate back to item you saved using the GO_ITEM built-in.
I have a wizard and i am trying to pass a value from one page to the next onclick a next button on the wizard in oracle apex but when i click next the value is not going through to the other side.
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Image above shows the next button and the how i am trying to pass the value
thanks
What you did is this:
there's page 33
there are (at least) two items on that page
P33_ID
P33_NEW
you are passing P33_NEW item's value into P33_ID item
in other words, you're doing it on the same page, while it seems - according to what you said ("I am trying to pass a value from one page to the next") - that you're expecting something to happen on some other page
If that's so, transfer P33_NEW item value to "some other page", not page 33.
If you still want to do it on the same page, consider using a Set value dynamic action.
I have a master form that calls a form called freight.
This freight form has all properties set to default except Caption, Name and window type which is 1-Modal.
The only method with code is the init which has:
select FRT1
The only object on the form is a command button with this in the click method:
messagebox(alias())
thisform.release()
So I would expect when I press the command button, the messagebox would say [FRT1] but instead it gives another alias from the master form.
Before the form is called from the master form, the alias is also explicitly set to FRT1
select FRT1
do form freight
Because the Freight form is modal, I would expect nothing in the master form to affect the data areas while the Freight form is running.
Since there is practically nothing in the Freight form, the problem would seem to be in the master form.
This errant behavior seems to only occur if the freight form is called from a button within a grid. Any ideas on what is happening or how to prevent it?
Aren't there any controls on the called form (typically a grid) that gets the focus and hence implicitly cause a change to current workarea?
BTW, I suggest using private data session and keeping each session separate.
Just a few thoughts.
I would open your debugger and put a
SET STEP ON
immediately before doing the
SELECT FRT1
DO FORM FREIGHT
Then, in the debugger, go to the "Watch" window and enter the value
ALIAS()
as the value to watch and to a click in the left-bar to show the red dot to STOP when it changes.
Just a thought of expectation. Your "Freight" form has its "DataSession" property to "1-Default data session", and if so, it is looking at whatever alias is in the DEFAULT session and not a PRIVATE data session that your master form may have...
I have seen this only EXTREMELY RARE cases ( 2 times ever in the 25+ yrs of working with FoxBase, FoxPro, VFP). In these cases, I had to EXPLICITLY do a select of the table TWICE in a row.
SELECT FRT1
SELECT FRT1
or even putting a bogus statement in between such as
SELECT FRT1
tmpXXXXXX = alias()
SELECT FRT1
Check with breakpoint and see if that works.
Only one other breakpoint I would TRY to do... put "PROGRAM()" in the watch window. Is it possibly calling some other derived class script you did not know about... or in the "DataEnvironment" of the form running code such as in the "BeforeOpenTables" event? Better to KNOW where its doing things than bypass
I want to create a dynamic action, that will set a value to an item on the page, when the value of another item (autocomplete text field) is set.
So the proccess goes like this:
Click on the autocomplete field
type some letters
choose one of the suggested values
I cannot find an event that will be executed when the selection of one of the suggested values happens. This way, I cannot see how I can read the value of the autocomplete field, once a suggested value is selected.
The change event doesn't fit my needs, it doesn't execute when one suggested value is selected.
I had the same problem, found this link: https://community.oracle.com/thread/2130716?tstart=0 and modified my dynamic action as follows to get the desired behaviour:
Event = Custom
Custom Event = result
From the link:
the problem seems to be the default behavior of the browser. When you
enter some text into the autocomplete and the list is displayed, the
focus is still in the text field. Also if you use the keyboard cursors
to pick an entry the focus will still be in the textfield. That's why
the change event of the textfield doesn't fire. It only fires if you
leave the field.
On the other side if you pick an entry with the mouse, the browser
will remove the focus from the text field for a moment (before the
JavaScript code puts the focus back), because you clicked outside of
the field. But that's enough so that the browser fires the change
event.
I had a look into documentation of the underlaying jQuery Autocomplete
widget
(http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/) and
there is actually an event called "result" which can be captures if an
entry is selected from the drop down list.
Try "Lose Focus" as event. It will trigger your dynamic action when you leave the autocomplete field, i.e. your curosr is moved to another field.
This probably depends on the APEX version you are using.
In case of 18.2, because the underlying component is based on Oracle JET's "inputSearch" component, you need to use following configure to capture the select change event for text with autocomplete:
event: Custom
custom event: ojupdate
Reference:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E87657_01/jet/reference-jet/oj.ojInputSearch.html#event:optionChange
I turned on the browser console, then turned ApEx Developer toolbar debug, and found that, on the contrary, the "Change" event does fire upon user clicking with the mouse on one of the selections. However if the user uses keyboard (type a few letters to narrow the list down, then use down arrow key to arrive at desired value, then press enter) then the Change event does not fire, just as you say.
Moreover: even when you do get the value sent back via mouse-click initiated Change event, the value isn't the autocomplete's complete and valid value, but instead the possibly partial and wrong-case value just as typed by the user. I.e., the the change event's submission of the value precedes the autocomplete's substitution.
The answer that #VincentDeelen gave is the best alternative that I can see, although it doesn't quite give that "instantantenous synchronicity" feel. You could maybe use the "Key Down" event, but be careful with that. You could get a really excessive amount of web and db traffic as each and every keystroke (including corrections) results in another firing of the dynamic action.
Testing environment: ApEx 4.2.3 with Chrome 33 as well as IE 9.
p.s. This might be worth a mention to the ApEx development team as well.
It's not really ideal, but you could use onfocus(). I'm looking for the same thing you are, I think, a custom event that fires when the selection of a suggested value happens. I haven't found it yet though and that is my work-around for now. It will run whatever function you've created for this initially with no value, but once the selection is made it will return focus and run the function again with the right value. Like I said, not ideal but it works.
Jeffrey Kemp is right. You can set it up through a dynamic action using the custom event, result. You can also register it on page load using document.getElementById("{id}").addEventListener("result", {function}); or $("#{id}").result( function( event, data, formatted ) { //something here });.
Oracle apex 19 now added a "component event" when you create a dynamic action called "Update [Text Field with autocomplete]" - this action is fired when you select a value from the list, but not when you leave the field (similar to adding the custom event "ojupdate").