Re: Forms, record'CurrentRec'OF 'TotalRecs' what's the best way to get CurrentRec?

From: steve deno <sldcrew2k_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 25 Feb 2004 21:50:16 -0800
Message-ID: <8e6b14d8.0402252150.73557f2a_at_posting.google.com>


I did not disable the default, but would I not have to query all records in the block to get the total number of records to show up?

Also, I wanted to be able to show multiple counts for each block displayed

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1077751502.7445_at_yasure>...
> steve deno wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I have seen this question talked about a few times in the archives,
> > but I'm looking for more oppinion.
> >
> > In Forms 9i I need to display the current record number and the total
> > count of records in a block. For the total, I just did the
> > "precompute-summary-count thing", which works fine. Now the user also
> > wants to always know what record they are on. I was originally
> > thinking along the lines of doing a when-record-chnged, or
> > when-new-item-instance trigger that would put the :system.cuurent_item
> > into a variable. Would this make sense? I have to other constraints
> > that make me want to look for a better way. First, I don't want to
> > query all records because there could be many. Second, this block has
> > dynamic sorting applied which I was thinking could get in the way.
> >
> > Is there a "standard" way of doing this?
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> >
> > steve
>
> In my forms the numbers show up in the lower left corner of the window
> on the status bar? Did you disable the default?
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