Re: How to Increment the value of a feild sequentillay in a multi-record block ?

From: FAIZ QURESHI <faizq_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 01:36:39 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0059BBC6.20030517013639@fatcity.com>

Hello:
A few days back I had posted the following question to our list,

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Hello All:
I am using Forms 6i.
I have a situation whichnrequires that in a multi-record block, I want the value of month field to be incremented automatically as the user navigates down the block.Only in the first record the user enters the month after that the month field in the subsequent records should be sequentially incremented by 1.
Can anyone please forward me the code in PL/ SQL for doing this. Regards,
Faiz

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but I could get no replies to my question. So I had to break my head on my own and find a solution for that. I could find not one but two solutions:   Ist Soultion
The eample is built on a form with EMP block. In the Trigger
when-new-block-instance (Emp Block)
:Global.currdate := '';

In the Trigger
when-new-record-instance (Emp Block)
If :Hiredate is not null and :Global.currdate is null then If :System.last_record <> 'True' then
last_record;
:Global.currdate := to_char(:hiredate,'dd-mon-yyyy');
End if;
End if;
In the Trigger (hiredate Item)
when-new-item-instance
IF :System.Record_Status IN ('CHANGED','INSERT') THEN IF :hiredate is null then
:hiredate := Add_months(to_date(:Global.currdate,'DD-Mon-YYYY'),1);
:Global.currdate := to_char(:hiredate,'dd-mon-yyyy');
end if;
end if;

IInd Solution : -
  We can do the same thing by defining a when-new-rcord-instance trigger and a when-new-block instance trigger and using a loop to increment the value of a global variable.

Hope this helps others who face a similar situation in future.

Regards,
Faiz

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Received on Sat May 17 2003 - 04:36:39 CDT