Ajax Report Pull from another Page Pagination override

Question

We are on a time crunch and need to get this application working in a timely manner, any help would greatly be appreciated..
*[History leading up to problem]*
We followed the code from this example http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:48:4441142106394445 which pulls a report from another page using AJAX so we could update a report (in this case a tabular form). Since Tabular Forms cannot update past 30-40 records we had to turn on pagination to prevent errors when trying to submit it.
Since Pagination on the bottom of the report/tabular form links to the other page the report is on, I decided to attempt to override next> href link to instead call a javascript with the url from next> (Report/Tabular Form Pagination) with Jquery the following code {the override is working} {comments added here for clarification}...
var oldhref =$("a.t20pagination").attr("href"); //get Apex Pagination a href link location
$("a.t20pagination").attr('href', "javascript:return false"); // change the Apex Pagination a href llink location to do nothing
$("a.t20pagination").click(function () {   // Create an onclick for Apex Pagination a href that calls a javascript function
get_report_page(oldhref); // This function is needed because I am grabbing the report from another page, I hope to
}); // get this javascript working [the reason why I am asking this question here]
$("a.t20pagination").removeClass("t20pagination"); // Removed the pagination class just in case it was causing issues.
The function I am working on below... {I figured I have to do the htmldb_get function {I am still new to Apex so I am not totally clear on it, but learning}, to get the report again from the other page, but I need to add pagination.. So I figured I could split the link location based on the : and go through the array for the parts I need to pass in the htmldb_get}, with alerts to help diagnose the problem...
function get_report_page(curUrl) {
alert ('Hello how are you today?');
var temp = new Array();
temp = curUrl.split(':');
alert ('I like the number '+temp.length);
for ( var i=0, len=temp.length; i<len; ++i ){
alert (i+":"+temp); // Square brackets actually used, changed to squiggly here to show
var get = new htmldb_Get(null,$x('pFlowId').value,null,205,null, null, temp{4}); // Square brackets actually used, changed to squiggly here to show
gReturn = get.get(null,'<htmldb:BOX_BODY>','</htmldb:BOX_BODY>');
get = null;
$x('ReportDrop').innerHTML = gReturn;
*[Actual Problem]*
Since the report is on another page (in this case 205) and is being pulled onto Page 200 where the user is, when the user clicks on the Next> for the report/tabluar form pagination, the user is automatically thrown to page 205 {I want to keep the user on page 200 and pass the pagination, then pull the report/tabular form again}
I looked at the link http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11620:63:834860992188521::NO::: but I am not sure where to stick the report pagination{I thought it would be queryString {above you see I am setting temp[4] in the queryString parameter}..
I know the function is working since I get the alert messages, after that where the report would be it gives the following error...
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
mod_plsql: /pls/apex/wwv_flow.show HTTP-400 Signature Mismatch or Missing '='
Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.0.2 Oracle-HTTP-Server Server at nysastst.senate.state.ny.us Port 7778
Can I simply splice the url like I am doing above and pass it to htmldb_get (or is there anyway to pass the report pagination using htmldb_get)?
If so, what am I doing wrong?
Also, does this seem like a decent solution or is there a better solution for this issue?
- Thanks in advance,
- Brian
Edited by: brheitner on Dec 10, 2009 8:09 AM
Edited by: brheitner on Dec 10, 2009 8:11 AM
Edited by: brheitner on Dec 10, 2009 8:13 AM

Answer 1

Thanks cb... it worked like a charm..
but at first, I Could not get it to work because in my report that was being pulled from another page did not have Enable Partial Refresh set to Yes under Report Attributes > Layout and Pagination.. When it was off the a href link of the pagination was showing a standard link. Once Enable Partial Refresh was set to Yes, the pagination then showed a link to javascript:$a_report(...); which meant you can now override it with the javascript function.
Here is the thread I found it in
Call Process Through AJAX