everyone. I am working on a Oracle APEX application. I want to create a report with edit for every row. I followed that video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqcO1JKDdM but when I created the report strangely the "Edit-pencil" button opens a create form instead an edit. Does anyone have a clue what should I do to get the edit functionality? Thanks.
I looked many videos on youtube, but when I create a report like this: Create Page -> Report -> Report with Form -> and so on, I encounter the same problem - create form instead edit form.
... strangely the "Edit-pencil" button opens a create form instead an edit.
That's the same form (you use to create a new row and edit existing one). The only difference is the link you use; for editing, you have to go to IR's attributes and set which value you'll pass to the form (that would be the primary key, most probably).
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so im trying to create an interactive report using apex. Usually, it will automatically create CRUD operation in the report. But somehow, the edit button (pencil and paper icon) in my interactive report is gone and i don't know how to fix nor adding them manually. Before it was gone, I changed my IR to Classical report since after i upload the table, APEX doesn't show all the columns (only 8 out of 9 column showed). And after that, I return the table into IR since all the column showed, but this is where the problem started.
Any thoughts?
go to report's Attributes properties tab (on the right hand side of the Page Designer screen)
set the Link property to "Link to Custom target"
target will be "page in this application"
choose it from list of values (or type it manually, if you know its number)
as you'll want to pass item(s) value(s) from the report to form page, set items
That's all.
I have a form in MS Access 2013 that is associated with two tables. The form populates with various fields from each table. I also have several buttons to Add a Record, Find a Record (from one of the tables), Save, and Close Form. I want to add a button that allows me to find a record from the other table. I was successfull creating the button, but the button is looking at the wrong table. I want the button to look at the other table but I can't find a way to switch the table the button is looking at. I don't understand Macros very well but this appears to be a very easy problem. How can I make the button look at the right table?
I'm using APEX 5 for the first time and trying to link users to the same page from an interactive report column.
The page being linked to will display different data, depending on which row user clicked.
I don't know what data to depend on to generate the new page, my thoughts are to write (a href) statements but not sure how variables are supposed to be stored this way.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!
Wrong approach, in my opinion.
You should have done this:
create a new page
choose the "Report" page type
choose "Report with Form on table"
It'll create both Interactive Report and a "linked" Form which will be used for the purpose you described. You don't even have to write a single line of code, Apex will do everything for you. You'd just click the icon at the beginning of the Interactive Report row, and it'll lead you to the Form and display values related to that very row.
I'm new to APEX. When I create pages in my app the edit pages that generate automatically work for some pages but not for others - they are blank except for the Create, Delete, Cancel buttons and the PK item (but that one's "Hidden"). There are no other items. I tried to add them manually but they don't connect to the respective rows - when I try to edit a row in the app it displays empty lines
Consequentially, I also can't delete any rows. I tried to compare everything in the settings of pages that have working edit pages but nothing worked
From my point of view, the simplest option is to create either
a form on a table with report whose wizard will create
an interactive report you'd use to view data; enable you to modify existing records using the "edit" icon at the beginning of each row; create new records using the Create button
a form used to modify and create new records
a tabular form (or an interactive grid) that enables you do do everything (insert, update delete) on the same page
If you create a form by yourself, you should create required processes which do different actions. I'm lazy to do it manually, so I always let the Wizard do the dirty job.
From your description, it seems that you created a form, included several items, possibly set them to be database items, but Apex doesn't know how to retrieve existing records (something like execute query in Oracle Forms). Therefore, try to use one of options I suggested and see how they behave.
I have created a page based on "Form & Report" template. So there is the Report page on which there is the create button. That create button leads to the form page which contains.
It is pretty simple. I don't know if there is a cache memory not emptying itself or if there is a setting that I have not properly set.
When I want to create a new database record, Oracle Apex behaves as if I asked it to update a record (though it still presents me with empty text fields).
Below the image of what's happening.
Create button of the Report
Buttons for edit are shown when I click the create button
Those edit buttons are shown instead of the buttons below => This means that the Apex software is behaving like I asked to edit a record not to insert a record.
Why is this happening?
You need to take a look at your create button. Is it passing a value to the form? If so, you probably don't want that. Is it clearing the cache of the form? If not, you probably want to clear it.
Also, on the form page take a look at your processes.. specifically the Automated Row Fetch (ARF) process.. what's the primary key that this process is using?
Also, take a look at the conditions for each button on your form. For the delete/save buttons you likely want a condition type of "value of item / column in expression 1 Is NOT NULL".
For your create button you would want the opposite.. "value of item /... IS NULL".
In both cases for the expression 1 you'd want to use the item that your ARF is leveraging.
#Bloomberg58 if you used the wizard that should not have anyway try to validate the create button in report page and the server-side validation of create and save button in form page