Adding a page path to an "all items in page group" SELECT?

Question

I have a case where a client's asked me to produce a "report" (nothing fancy, so I'm thinking a basic SELECT right out of the DB here rather than a full solution like Discoverer or Business Objects) for them on all items in particular page groups in our Portal (v10.1.2.0.2).
I have a query that Oracle Support provided which I can fiddle with a bit to get most of the info I need:
select I.ID, I.display_name, I.name, I.itemtype, P.name
from PORTAL.WWSBR_ALL_ITEMS I,
PORTAL.WWSBR_ALL_CONTENT_AREAS CA,
PORTAL.WWSBR_ALL_FOLDERS P
where CA.name = 'MY_PAGE_GROUP'
and P.caid = CA.id
and I.caid = CA.id
and I.folder_id=P.id
and I.active=1
and I.is_current_version=1
and I.visible=1
and I.itemtype in ('basefile','baseimagemap','basetext','baseurl');
...however, what I'd like to do is add a "page path" column; that is, one that would trace up the tree from the item's page to the root of the page group and present something like "My Page Group > Departments > HR" like you get in Portal Navigator.
I can think of how to do this, conceptually, by tracing through the parent pages in WWSBR_ALL_FOLDERS, but what I'm not quite sure about is how to do it for an arbitrary depth in the page tree - i.e., the page can be any (reasonable) number of levels from the page group's root.
Any thoughts? I'd prefer to do this as a basic SQL query if at all possible, but writing a little reusable PL/SQL procedure to do it isn't out of the question. My knowledge of PL/SQL is pretty rudimentary but I have enough programming experience in other languages that I could probably manage to bumble through it if necessary.
Thanks.

Answer 1

First create a page that can contain two regions. One for a page-path item, and another to have a report portlet.
For the page-path, you can have another region in your page. Then edit this region to make it items type. Now add an item of type 'Page Path', with depth 3.
Now, you can create a portal report based on your SQL query, publish it as portlet, add it on that page as portlet.
That will give you exactly what you have described you want.
hope that helps!
AMN