this is the third tiem this week that i’m glad i’ve found you. Your solutions are a great help for me just starting APEX development.

kind regards, peter

I created an open source project called tapiGen (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapigen/) to kind of assist with this kind of thing… When I wrote it I used the v(‘APP_USER’) syntax. However, your method would seem to be a little more efficient. I’ll update the code ASAP. Thanks!

Regards,
Dan

This is exactly what we’ve done in our application. However, for the purposes of this tutorial I figured it wasn’t necessary as we’d only be updating the information through the APEX screens.

Regards
Sara

you should use

:NEW.modified_by := NVL(apex_application.g_user, USER);

so that it also works when the table is modified outside of an Oracle APEX session context.

Regards
Patrick