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There are some, maybe rare, use case when you want to set the " Suppress Change Event " switch of a Dynamic Action to " Yes ". Usually that's only necessary when the Dynamic Action is fired On Change  and executes a Set Value  with the same field as a target. There might be a chain of events leading to this or just one. If you forget to set it you'll end up in an endless loop and your browser will choke. That works all fine and as expected with regular Page Items. However ... when you apply this to a column in an Interactive Grid something unexpected happens. When you set the Suppress Change Event of a Dynamic Action that fires on change of a column to Yes , the value of that item seems empty when you leave that field (column)! If you navigate back into that field, the (new) value does show up... You can call it a feature, you can call it a bug, but bottom line it is unexpected and undesired behaviour. The solution is to call the Grid method SetActiv...

Apart from the Current Record Indicator in your APEX Reports , another question often pops up at my client sites. A lot of functionality is implemented using a Report and a (Modal) Form. But to access that Form, the user has to click exactly on the small link icon in the first column of the report. So can that be changed, making it more "accessible"? Set the Link Attributes of the column you're using for the link (or the Link definition itself) to:  class="editlink" On Page 0 / Global Page add a Dynamic Action that fires on "Double Click" on the jQuery Selector "tr.clickable". Note: This class was set using an After Refresh Dynamic Action, see the previous blogpost . You can also accomplish that without the Current Record Indicator, but you have to assign the class "clickable" to the TR - you can do that with just the "editlink" class as a selector. The Dynamic Action should execute a JavaScript call:   // E...