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8

Creating LOVs and Editors

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do


the following:
• Describe LOVs and editors
• Design, create, and associate LOVs with text items
in a form module
• Create editors and associate them with text items
in a form module

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Overview of LOVs and Editors

Editor

Text item Text item Text item

LOV

Supporting data
record group

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Overview of LOVs and Editors

• LOVs:
– List of values for text
items
– Dynamic or static list
– Independent of single
text items
– Flexible and efficient LOV lamp
• Editors:
– Override default editor
– Used for special requirements such as larger
editing window, position, color, and title

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LOVs and Record Groups

Text item Text item

LOV LOV

Record group Record group Record group Query-based


based on or record
static data SQL group

Database

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LOVs and Record Groups

Sales Rep record group


Employee_id Name

SELECT employee_id, first_name ||

' '|| last_name NAME,


phone_number
Sales Representatives LOV FROM employees
WHERE job_id = 'SA_REP'
ORDER BY last_name
EMPLOYEES
table

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Creating an LOV Manually

1 2

3 4

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Creating an LOV with the LOV Wizard:
SQL Query Page

Edit query
if needed

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Creating an LOV with the LOV Wizard:
Column Selection Page

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Creating an LOV with the LOV Wizard:
Column Properties Page

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Creating an LOV with the LOV Wizard:
Display Page

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Creating an LOV with the LOV Wizard:
Advanced Properties Page

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Creating an LOV with the LOV Wizard:
Assign to Item Page

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LOV Properties

(X,Y) Width
LOV

Height Automatic
Select

Column Mapping Filter Before


Display
? Automatic
Skip

Return Items

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Setting LOV Properties

Automatic
LOV Column Width

Automatic
Position

Column Mapping

Return Items

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LOVs: Column Mapping

orders.sales_rep_id orders.sales_rep_name orders.salesrep_phone

Phone number
1-415-555-6281
Hidden
column

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Defining an Editor

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Setting Editor Properties

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Associating an Editor with a Text Item

• Associate one of two


types of editors with a
text item.
• Set text item’s Editor
property to one of the
following:
– Null (default Forms
Builder editor)
– Editor name
(customized editor)

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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned that:


• An LOV is a scrollable pop-up window that
enables a user to pick the value of an item from a
multicolumn dynamic list
• The easiest way to design, create, and associate
LOVs with text items is to use the LOV Wizard
• An Editor is a separate window that enables the
user to view multiple lines of a text item
simultaneously, search and replace text in it, and
modify the text
• You create editors in the Object Navigator and
associate them with text items in the item’s
Property Palette
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Practice 8: Overview

This practice covers the following topics:


• Creating an LOV and attaching the LOV to a text
item
• Creating an Editor and attaching it to a text item

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