How to automatically send report after it is created?

Question

Hello,
I am beginner and I would appreciate if someone could tell me general information.
I found this tutorial how to save and access report.
Storing and Accessing Reports in the Database
In that tutorial report is saved onclick.
Is there a way to automatically email report everytime report is generate or I should first save it (PDF, CSV,..) with SQL script and then email it?
I also found that in Interactive report there is page process that can send e-mails. Is it possible that page process send e-mail with report or report should be also saved before sending?
The reason for this is that we want to have a history of created reports.
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

874887 wrote:
The reason for this is that we want to have a history of created reports.
Save report, then email it.
I usually call COMMIT between the two steps.
Use the APEX_MAIL package to send out an e-mail with an attachment.
You should be able to modify the PL/SQL to do it all in one step
declare
  l_report blob;
-- Added this for APEX_MAIL
l_mail_id NUMBER;
begin
  l_report := apex_util.get_print_document (
  p_application_id => :APP_ID,
  p_report_query_name => 'blobquery',
  p_report_layout_name => 'blobquery',
  p_report_layout_type => 'rtf',
  p_document_format => 'pdf'
  insert into report_archive (
  filename,
  mimetype,
  report,
  created_date,
  created_by
  ) values (
  'BLOB Query Search Results ('||to_char(sysdate,'DDMonYYYY')||')',
  'application/pdf',
  l_report,
  sysdate,
  :USER
-- COMMIT the insert so you don't e-mail out a report
-- that was never saved
commit;
-- create e-mail here
l_mail_id := APEX_MAIL.send( ... ); -- see document for usage
APEX_MAIL.ADD_ATTACHMENT( .. ); -- see document for usage
end;
MK