Oracle Forms 6i - Dynamically manipulation of List Elements...but how?

[Slarti]

Hi,

i have to customize some forms modules. And no idea how to handle this
case.

All right, what happens:

1. WHEN_NEW_FORM_INSTANCE triggers creates a new Record Group
(CREATE_GROUP_FROM_QUERY) and populate it (POPULATE_GROUP) from
database. Shortly after the designated List Item is populated
(POPULATE_LIST) based on the Record Group
=> Now we have a List Item with following values "A, B, G, N"

2. Assume something special happens, whatever. Then List value 'G' is
not needed and must be "disabled"
=> LOV still owns values "A, B, N"

3. After the business transaction succeeds or fails, a new transaction
can be started in this form (so it's not needes to leave or restart
it)
=> LOV must have its old database values "A, B, G, N"

What is the best way to handle this situation?
Any idea?

I tried DELETE_LIST_ITEM, but do not know how to get the list value
index dynamically, because i only know the value "G" but not the index
when it is populated from database.

[Jan Gelbrich]

"Slarti" <1012...@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:ccb8e3b6.04080...@posting.google.com...

Uhm, AFAIK, LOVs and List Items are *not the same*,
they are completely different objects:

A List Item is an item that is normally visible all the time on the canvas.
A LOV is only popping up with SHOW_LOV or F9,
showing a mask to choose a value from it, and
when chosen, the LOV disappears and may return
values into some items.

So: do You have LOVs *or* List Items *or* both as a mixture ?
A tip about List Items: AFAIK they cannot be *re*populated
(if You have a chain of dependend List Items e.g.), so
if the selection of LI1 determines what should be populated in LI2 and so
on,
it does not work - so I use a chain of LOVs instead in that case.

Oh, BTW: what version do You use :) ?
It maybe fixed with DS10g, but I don´t know ...

HTH, Jan