We have several tabular forms, each with several date fields. My users tend to fat-finger on at least one of the fields and end up with an extra character placed somewhere (usually the end, but not always) in the date. I would like to find some way to remedy this, either by simply checking the length of the entry, or by fully validating the date.

I looked at Patrick’s example above, but don’t think it would do what I’m looking for (I could be wrong). We don’t have the ApexLib framework installed…our DBA is still getting his feet wet as a DBA and is a little leary of it. So, what is the best plan of action for my problem?

Thanks.

Thanks for your quick response. I have come up with an alternative solution which is acceptable to our users.

Regards
Wayne

TabForms currently can handle only very simple conditions like equal, null, …

Currently there is no timeframe for supporting all other condition types.

If this is a blocking point for you just send me an email to apexlib@oracleapex.info and we’ll figure something out.

Your solution for validation on tabular forms is exactly what I need, however it does not work if there is a condition on the reports region or conditions on any of the form columns. I understand this is a known issue, do you have a timeframe when you expect this to be fixed.

Thanks,
Wayne

i sent you an email.

Peter

I have a situation when I use ApexLib 2.1.4 and make data validation in a tabular form exactly as described in this post from you. This everything works perfect in Firefox and Google Chrome, but not in Internet Explorer (8 nor 6) when some of the cell is populated with data from PopUp LOV.
This is the situation in IE8:
My table consists of 5 columns, in one of them I use PopUP LOV. When I click to add new row, the row is added to the table. I populate the cells with data, I use the PopUp LOV to select appropriate value and when I click to save the data then the validation process is executed successfully showing that that data is not valid and the error message is displayed properly on the Error Page, but the newly added row disappears from the table and there is yellow mark in the left down corner of the IE8 window showing “Done, but with errors on page”.
This is the error:
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:44:21 UTC
Message: Exception thrown and not caught
Line: 19
Char: 44681
Code: 0
URI: http://www.unilogsrv.dyndns.org:8080/apex/wwv_flow_file_mgr.get_file?p_security_group_id=1038406578662398&p_fname=ApexLib_Full-min.js

But,when I populate the cell manually, instead of using the PopUp LOV then everything is all right. I assume that the PopUp LOV is making something on the cell that can’t “get over” IE8.

I will be very grateful if you help me, or just give me directions how to solve this.

Another issue is, again in IE8, my validation process checks if all cells in the column 3, have same value which I choose from PopUp LOV. When I change one cell value, lets say from A to B, using my PopUP LOV and all other cells have value A, then the validation process works perfectly, it displays the message in the error page saying that value A in row x and value B in row y don’t match. The cells are colored as expected, BUT the values in the colored cells are both A, although I have selected one to have value B. This is strange.

Best regards,
Vane Spasov

did you install ApexLib?

Check the documentation on http://apexlib.oracleapex.info

Peter

Your article answered all my questions. I followed your instruction and get error:
ORA-06550: line 5, column 20: PLS-00201: identifier ‘APEXLIB_TABFORM.GETROWCOUNT’ must be declared ORA-06550: line 5, column 5: PL/SQL: Statement ignored

I don’t know why.
Can you help?

Thanks
sherry

I saw your post, I have a query can one create a Tabular form with a search option, means a dynamic tabular form?
or is there any option to hack interactive report such that I can insert textbox in the columns to see the values of each columns in those textboxes.

Thanks,
Tauceef

Is there anyway to create custom number format mask in report for a column?

i.e. We had inbuilt Number Date Format like,

$5,234.10
-5,234.10
5,234
5,234.10

but I want to display a standard report column as,

56%
Rs. 5,234.10

and can we have an option to make an editable cell as read only on a specific condition like we had in normal text box?

Thanks,

Sohil Bhavsar