I've been getting really annoyed with the way APEX checks its item's value only after you've submitted the page. I've been doing workarounds that have taken way too much work and now I can't even do a workaround in this situation. Is there a way to get a page item's value without submitting the page first? What I mean is like if I have a page with just a text field and a Submit button, I want to put "Hello" in that field and click Submit. I then have a dynamic action on Submit that onClick performs a PLSQL insert into expression that inserts the value of that field into a table I want. However, the value is ALWAYS null no matter what I do. How do I fix this or is APEX just that barebone?