Database Reference
In-Depth Information
You can bypass the wizard and create your own tabular forms. As your application
becomes more sophisticated, you may find it more efficient to create forms manually.
However, this topic focuses on the wizard approach.
Creating a Tabular Form
In this section you create a new page that contains a tabular form based on the
TICKETS
table. The form allows multiple tickets to be edited on the same page. You
then alter the display properties of the tabular form columns. Proceed as follows:
1.
Edit any page in your application.
2.
Click the
Create
button at upper right on the page, and select
New Page
from the menu.
3.
Select
Form
, and click
Next
.
4.
Select
Tabular Form
, and click
Next
.
5.
Select your schema for
Table/View Owner
, and then select
TICKETS
for
Table/View Name
.
6.
Set
Allowed Operations
to
Update, Insert and Delete
.
7.
By default, all the columns are already selected, as shown in
Figure 7-1
.
Click
Next
.
Figure 7-1.
Selecting columns for a tabular form
8.
Set
Primary Key Type
to
Select Primary Key Column(s)
.
9.
Set
Primary Key Column 1
to
1. TICKET_ID (Number)
, and click
Next
.
