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Fixing Skillbuilders Super LOV (v3) in APEX 5.1

We have already migrated some of the existing applications to a new version of Oracle Application Express - 5.1. After few weeks in production I can just say...do it :). But when doing an upgrade there is always a possibility that you will hit some issues. For me one of the issue was Skillbuilders Super LOV (v3), and it looks like I'm not alone (https://community.oracle.com/thread/4010580)

So what is the issue? 

When you select a value (Super LOV item) and try to save a form then the value is not submitted. Now if you are lucky, then your item is mandatory and you will see the error - end users will tell you right away that something is not working. If your item is not mandatory then you might see this error much later, with complaints that some data is not saved correctly.

Value is selected
After submit, value is cleared and we see an error

After a bit of research I have found a quick fix, that you can use, until the plugin is fixed by original authors. What has to be done is just one small change in plugin's render function. Search in the source for line with disabled="disabled" (should be somewhere in line 157, if you haven't done some changes)

THEN 'disabled="disabled" onfocus="this.blur();"'

and change it to:

THEN 'readonly="readonly" onfocus="this.blur();"'

Notice the change is line 157 and 158

It looks like that something has changed from version 5.0 to 5.1. If you have an item with a property disabled="disabled", then after submitting the page you will not see value for this item.

To test this, I have created an After Submit Process with the code:

apex_debug.error('Value of P2_LOV : %s', :P2_LOV);

I have tried this on version 5.0.4 and 5.1 and after checking the debug there is a clear difference:

Debug in APEX 5.0

Debug in APEX 5.1


Aljaz

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