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.
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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).
I created a blank page and inserted textfields and button which will serve as a form. I want to display the inserted data from user once the button save is clicked, and the data will also show on the interactive grid below the page. Please help me on this.
I'd suggest another approach: use the Wizard to create Report with a Form on a table. It will create an Interactive Report (and you'll use it to review data stored into a table) and a Form (you'll use to insert new records and to update/delete existing ones).
Apex does everything for you; you'll only have to make it pretty because it'll work "as is". With your approach, you'll have to program everything yourself.
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 have created Oracle apex dynamic action to create text fields dyanmically, but the event fires only once. That is only once the text fields get created.
Not sure i get what you are asking, but I can see to possible meanings:
You are using javascript to create new page items on each click, in which case I strongly advise against - the best practice would be to insert new rows into an interactive grid, which you can latter parse as a collection to do whatever you need
You still intend to create new items, look into the documentation of apex_items:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14373_01/apirefs.32/e13369/apex_item.htm
I have a web application that inserts/updates/deletes records from a database. Each time a transaction is made to a table, the change is recorded with the type of modification and the previous values from a trigger. What is a good web user interface layout to view such transactions to the users? Currently we just dump the whole history table to the user in a html table row and column format. I'm looking for some interface hints to present these edit history better.
Thanks for your input.
You can use a grid representation of the database table, plain html or produced by a js framework, plenty of options out there.
For the newly inserted records with no updates, just show the record with the insertion datetime.
For records that have been updated you can add a link/button at the end of the row with a title like "history" or "previous versions" or somethink like that and when a user clicks on it, then you can open a subgrid under this record or a pop up with a new grid (depends how you will implement your grid on the first place) which will show this record's history only.
The deleted records, you can add them (at the bottom of the table maybe) but grayed out or striked out. Again you can add the history option if you want it even for deleted records.
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You could also add some filtering functionality above your grid for the user to select/see only the inserted/updated/deleted records and of course sorting functionality on the grid columns