APEX 3.0 XLS-FO Report Layout

Hallo,
another question for 3.0 :
I just created a custom xsl:fo stylesheet based on the XML data
which gave me the "Report Queries" wizard. In the XSL Editor it looks quite well
but using my regions "Print" link i get only a blank page.
Now i recognized the uploaded xslt format is now rtf when i download it.
Also it is in format "Named Columns (RTF)" but i uploaded it using "Named Columns (XSL-FO)".
Is this custom stuff without BI Publisher plugin really working already ?
Thanks,
Jochen

Hello,
I can confirm this behaviour. After uploading a XSL-FO report layout and assigning this report to a report query, I get an empty PDF after calling the query.
When I look at the request that was sent to BI Publisher (or Apache FOP), I see that
&_xtype=rtf
is always added to the request when I upload a named column template, regardless wether I uploaded a RTF or a XSL-FO template. It appears that ApEx always stores type = rtf when uploading a named column template (XSL and RTF).
Is this a known problem? Any workarounds or statements when this will be fixed?
Thanks
Stephan

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Edited by: Krishna on Aug 9, 2010 10:08 AM

Hi, I think you need to provide more information.
user452458 wrote:
Hi There,
Navigation: Home>Application Builder>Application 20>Shared Components>Report Layouts
I created rtf template for a Report Query. It worked fine upto certain point.
However at some point, if I make a minor modification to the layout it is not displaying all the data that it is supposed to. What modification? added extra fields? Are those fields in the corresponding report query? change to the design of the document? did you delete the old template and re-upload after making the changes?
Moreover the preview on the RTF template works fine with the same data.Preview from where?
>
Is it a known bug? Because some of my coleagues has same issues.
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KrishnaAlso, you should change your display name to something better than user452458 ;)
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l_report_layout clob;
l_report_layout_id number;
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flow_id,
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page_template
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l_report_layout_id,
:FB_FLOW_ID,
:P1406_REPORT_LAYOUT_NAME,
'RTF_FILE',
l_report_layout
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Hi dear firends,
I have got Named column report layout (XSL-FO, ) that was designed by another programmer.
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hello
In shared Components\report queries or \reprot layouts of ApEx 3.2, has written
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