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E. ScioreUnderstanding Oracle APEX 20 Application Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6165-1_11

11. Interactive Grids

Edward Sciore1 
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Newton Center, MA, USA
 
Reports are read-only. If you are looking at a report and want to change its contents, then you must use a form. For example, consider the Report with Form 1 page of Figure 10-27. Suppose a user wants to modify a row of the employee report. The following steps occur:
  • The user clicks the link of the desired row, which redirects to the Report with Form 2 page (Figure 10-29) and places the selected employee number into an item on that page.

  • The initialization process for the form then retrieves that employee’s information from the database and stores it in the appropriate ...

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