I played a bit with tabular forms on views using an instead of trigger. After following the guide from
Christian Rokitta I came really close to what I needed. After I thought I was ready I got the following error message:
ORA-01445: cannot select ROWID from, or sample, a join view without a key-preserved table
I didn't understood what was wrong so I searched the APEX forum for help. I found the reason in this post:
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1106262
In there Marc Sewtz wrote about the issue I discovered.
My problem was that I tried to change an already existing tabular form which used declarative validations. After I deleted those validations everything worked fine.
My page was now available in 1 second instead of 5-6 seconds. Great solution.
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One problem solved next problem ahead. When I tried updating my tabular form I got this nice Oracle error message: ORA-01031 insufficient privileges
Why?
I simply tried to add this sub-view to my updateable view which looked like that:
CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "LOV_YES_NO" ("D", "R") AS
select 'Yes' as d, 'y' as r from dual
union
select 'No' as d, 'n' as r from dual;
Because "DUAL" is an Oracle system table or whatever. :) I had no privileges to update on this.
So I simply added a real master data table for this and it worked as expected.
