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Feature Request FR-2117
Product Area Developer Experience
Status CLOSED

48 Voters

Form refresh without page submit

fahad Public · Oct 25 2021

Idea Summary
Form should be allowed to refresh without page submit.

Use Case
Forms are being used to display the data on Modal dialog pages based on page submit which trigger form initialization to load the data. What if there is a need of loading the data on the same page without page submit. Currently there is no possible way to load the data or perform DML on form without submit. 

Use case on community

Preferred Solution (Optional)
On-demand process would be beneficial to trigger the page initialization and or to perform DML. This option is available but does not function according to the requirement. Or provide some useful API to refresh form region refresh.

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that it is unlikely to make its way into APEX in the foreseeable future.

Known Duplicates

Known duplicates

FR-2740
FR-2740 Dynamic Action to refresh Form Region

Comments

Comments

  • ino.laurensse OP 3.7 years ago

    Interactive Grid, which is way more complex than a from region, has Ajax processes to perform DML and region refresh. It is confusing in the UX that there can be two Save buttons, for instance in a master detail page: one for the master form, which submits the page, one for the IG, which is a very quick Save and Refresh without a page submit.

    This should have been introduced with the form region (instead of form page).

  • ino.laurensse OP 3.5 years ago

    Another use case for this: a tree region with a form region on the same page. Click on another tree node and refresh the form region without submit.

  • ino.laurensse OP 3.2 years ago

    CLOSED: very disappointing … :-(

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 3.2 years ago

    It isn't “CLOSED” forever! it has been updated to be 

    CLOSED : We'd love to do everything, but can't. This is something we're putting away for now, until we can.

  • ino.laurensse OP 3.2 years ago

    @jayson: I understand, but the “Closed” status on other ideas is usually pretty final.  

    There are so many other statuses that are less “final”: Need more support, Under consideration, Roadmap, Backlog, Planned …

    https://apex.oracle.com/ideas/FR-1869 is even on the roadmap!

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 3.2 years ago

    Ino, there is a big difference between enabling the refresh of an entire form vs a specific region type. Level of effort, the impact on existing functionality, and so forth. Your idea isn't deleted - that'd be final. We just cannot commit to it right now. We have to prioritize, and closing some is part of that process.

  • evelina.karolyi OP 3 years ago

    Voting up, this is more than desirable.

    Understanding this might be complex to implement, but I run into this restriction every couple of months and have to go for PLSQL DAs with 50 columns to fetch. On a normal page I'd consider the refresh, but on a modal page this is really painful.

    Hope we get to having this considered sooner than later.

  • evgeni.nikolov OP 1.4 years ago

    Diear Apex team, I hear what you say, but this functionality is very desirable. We are a big corporate customer with tens of APEX applications and we have many use cases where the ability to refresha a form region would streamline the user experience. Kindly reconcider your decision.

  • darboisit OP 11 months ago

    Another one voting the idea up. 

    I wish I had it today. Facing so many requirements that would be immensely facilitated (and simplified!) if we had that functionality.

  • stirling.butcher OP 6 months ago

    Another vote up.  We have a requirement for this.  I'll just refresh the page but it doesn't make apex look good....
    Ideally components would all be pretty consistent with regards to supporting basic operations like refresh.  I was surprised to find it wasn't there when I needed it, after the customer and tech lead designed the app to need this.

  • john.snyders APEX Team OP 6 months ago

    While this is marked closed, PWA offline FR-1926 is not closed. If offline is to support forms at all I think that ajax submit of forms will be a requirement. Note this is my own technical assessment not an official statement.