Oracle Forms Developer – Form Builder Reference, Volume 1

Current Status Target
Status
408
NEW QUERY INSERT CHANGED
NEW yes yes1 yes2 no
QUERY yes4 yes no yes
INSERT yes4 yes3 yes no
CHANGED yes4 no no yes
1. Adheres to the rules described in footnotes 2 and 3.
2. This transition is not allowed in query mode, because QUERY and INSERT are not valid in query
mode.
3. If this transition is performed while Runform is running in Unique Key mode and not all of the
transactional triggers exist, then you must enter a valid value in the ROWID field. Put another way, if
you are connected to a non-ORACLE data source that does not support ROWID, but you are using a
unique key, you must supply the key for a record that goes from Insert to Query, in one of the
transactional triggers, either On-Lock, On-Update, or On-Delete. Otherwise Form Builder returns an
error.
4. Records that have been changed but not yet committed or cleared cannot be assigned a status of NEW.
SET_RECORD_PROPERTY examples
/*
** Built-in: SET_RECORD_PROPERTY
** Example: Mark the third record in the EMP block as if it
** were a queried record.
*/
BEGIN
Set_Record_Property( 3, ’EMP’, STATUS, QUERY_STATUS);
END;