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Oracle Tips by Burleson |
Creating
a Form on a Table with Report
A popular wizard to use when building applications
is the Form on a Table with Report.
This wizard will build two application pages complete with navigation
to go back and forth between the two pages. The first page is a
report and the second page is a form for editing a row in the report.
At this point, readers might be thinking the
author is a masochist. They might be asking themselves, “Why did he
take us the long route of making the report and the form when we could
have just done it this way?” It is because the wizards will not do
everything, and it is vital to know how to add page components to
reports and forms with HTML DB.
The following exercise walks through the creation
of the Form on a Table with Report for the CONFERENCE_RSVP
table.
1.
To create a Form on a Table with Report, navigate to the
application home page for the Easy HTML DB Book application and click
on Create Page.
2.
Choose the Form option and click Next.
3.
Choose the Form on a Table with Report option and click Next.
4.
On the Table / View Owner page the
EASYHDB schema will be
selected. Click Next.
5.
On the next page enter CONFERENCE_RSVP
for the table name and click Next.
6.
On the Define Report page:
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Page:
1082.
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Page Name: Report - Conference
Attendees.
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Region Title: Conference Attendees.
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Leave the rest defaulted and click
Next.
7.
No tabs and click Next.
8.
On the next page leave all columns selected and click Next.
9.
On the next page click the edit icon of your choice and click
Next.
10.
On the Define Form Page screen:
11.
No tabs and click Next.
12.
On the next page leave the default primary key (ID) and click
Next.
13.
On the next page choose the Existing trigger option and click
Next.
14.
On the next page leave all column selected and click Next.
15.
On the Identify Process Options page leave the defaults and
click Next.
16.
Finally, click Finish and Run the page.
The use of this wizard results in the creation of
pages very quickly in HTML DB. In fact, while writing this part of
the chapter, I ran through this exercise several times. Although I
did not enter the page names and titles each time, I was able to
create the two pages in less than 40 seconds. Setting up User
Interface Default for the CONFERENCE_RSVP would produce two pages that
needed very little customization. The only customization I can think
of would be modifying the form layout.
The above book excerpt is from:
Easy HTML-DB
Oracle Application Express
Create
Dynamic Web Pages with OAE
ISBN 0-9761573-1-4
Michael Cunningham & Kent Crotty
http://www.rampant-books.com/book_2005_2_html_db.htm
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