I have a simple application with 2 buttons (Submit1, Submit2) and a page item to display the value of REQUEST which I assumed would be Submit1 or Submit2. (By now, I'm accustomed to my assumptions being WRONG!) Each button has a dynamic action where I set the display item to v('REQUEST'). I thought I would see the button names Submit1 and Submit 2 but instead I get PLUGIN=0B54D6F17CD5860103961EC845E350493785E34E863AA39398BB4C9237FC0051 and PLUGIN=B0B98D1280C450FC46C5DC74138D31A9F574C2B48942DC8206884D980CDD9E55. I could easily set the display item to 'Submit1' and 'Submit2' but the point of this exercise was to see in the REQUEST variable the "name" (Submit1, Submit2) of the button just pressed.
WS apex_examples_01
demo / demo
Application 49924, page 2 (ignore unrelated page 1)
So, is this not working because
1) these button names do not get placed into REQUEST,
2) this is not the way to capture the button name from REQUEST, or
3) REQUEST doesn't work that way?
Howard
[Did you travel Europe in the 60s? Each country used a different currency, had a different language, laws and customs. Sometimes the folks were friendly; sometimes not. You did not assume what worked in one place would work in another.]