Re: Can one populate a POPLIST from a query in Forms 4.0? Newbie help required!

In article: <3l4ftk$k95_at_crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk> esuvl_at_csv.warwick.ac.uk (Richard James Tinker) writes:
> I am fairly new to Oracle Forms V4.0. I want to populate a Pop-List
> from the query;
>
> i.e. SELECT name
> FROM middlenames
> ORDER by prescedence
>
>
> I would have thought that this was a fairly standard thing to do,
> but reading the Forms manuals (p 7-31), it describes entering
> (hard coded) values, but not populating the list from a query.
>

Pop Lists and T-Lists are static in Forms 4.0 and cannot be populated from queries.

In Forms 4.5, they are both based on record groups, and so can be populated dynamically at runtime either programmatically or from queries.

In Forms 4.0, you're better using an LOV for this type of thing.

-Tony. Received on Mon Mar 27 1995 - 01:33:52 CEST