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Forms 4.5: Is this possible without procedure?

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leburs

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Jan 15, 2001
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Hello,

Does somebody know if it's possible to do in Forms 4.5 the following:
On the left part of the screen we should see the list of people ordered by Last name. Last names come from a view (not-updateable, Oracle 7). On the right part against each person we should see a row of his details which come from a table. Details have to be inserted/updated. I made the right part in a based-table block, since the where_clause on this screen depends only on the details in the right part. In POST-QUERY I retrieve then the list of last names - but it's already cannot be ordered_by !
What is the easiest way to do this?
Or I shouldn't make this block table-based?

Thanks!
 
Have you solved this yet? I am not sure that I'm reading this right. Is there a 1:1 between the two sides of the form? On the block properties under database there is an order by clause. Won't work so well if it is not 1:1.

Is the last name included in that base table? How come you have to have the view instead of just changing the last name field to non-enterable (if it is in the base table)?

Otherwise, What link do you have?
 
I've solved it not basing on table. Unfortunately, last name is not included in "main" base table which contains details, linked by person id. It's not necessarily 1:1, it's possible to see same Last name several times, if it has many detail rows.
 
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