Item Plugin Template
This is more a reference on how to create a basic item plugin - just a text field that is exactly the same as Text item type. There is a more detailed guide for those interested on the Oracle Learning Library - http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/db/apex/r40/apexplugins/apexplugins_ll.htm A lot of the values to use in your plugin can be obtained from the t_page_item record, with one exception - the name attribute. For this, you need to use the function get_input_name_for_page_item. The reason for this is that APEX needs to be able to map this input field to an item in session state. This gets the necessary element name (i.e. p_t02) and adds the additional hidden element to the page - p_arg_names. With that in mind, the most basic of plugins (well, render function) - that adds no extra functionality is: function render_file_item( p_item in apex_plugin.t_page_item, p_plugin in apex_plugin.t_plugin, p_value ...