Populate Multiple Items bundled in a single query

Question

Hello,
I am trying to create a report in which I have mulitple items that I want to populate. All of these use the same query but use different rows in the query to populate themselves. My question is:-
Is there a way to bundle the item assignment into a single query and populate the items from there? I want to reduce the time it takes for me to display the report and just hit the database once instead.

Answer 1

Hi there,
when u say report, i think its a more of a page showing few items on a region whose values are populated from Database rather than a SQL report which will not have any items. Is that correct?
yes, multiple items of a page can be assigned values at once.
assume: P1_ITEM1,P1_ITEM2,P1_ITEM3,P1_ITEM4 are different items on a page, an "On-Load Before Header" PL/SQL process can be created to assign values to the items in this way:
SELECT tab.col1,tab.col2,tab.col3,tab.col4 INTO :P1_ITEM1,:P1_ITEM2,:P1_ITEM3,:P1_ITEM4 FROM TABLE tab;
Item "Source Used" should be of type: Only When Current Value in session state is null
Source Type: PL/SQL Expression or function
and Source Value or EXpression should be some thing like this :P1_ITEM1
Hope this helps.
Edited by: Chaitu_Apex on Mar 10, 2010 2:43 PM