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How do you reference page items?

There are three ways to reference page items

• &ITEM_NAME.

This method is used in substitutions, for example in an HTML region -

For example the value of &P1_ITEM. would be inserted here

• :ITEM_NAME

This is known as bind variable notation, and can used in SQL. You can read and set the value of an item with this notation, for example -

  :P1_NAME := 'My name';

• v('ITEM_NAME')

This notation has to be used in compiled code (e.g. a PL/SQL packaged function), it is also readonly. You cannot set the value of an item using this method.

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