APEX 3.1 Enhancements

Now that APEX 3.0 is out, it's time to collect some enhancements for the next release.
In the APEX 3.0 Feedback Application a lot of users already posted enhancements for the next release and I'm sure some of them are considered by Oracle.
Because the Feedback Application isn't available anymore, I thought one single thread would be good for us and Oracle to keep track of some useful enhancements for the upcoming release.
Patrick
Check out my APEX-blog: http://inside-apex.blogspot.com
Check out the ApexLib Framework: http://apexlib.sourceforge.net

I'd really like to see a more well-defined item/region hierarchy.
What I mean by this is that I would like each item or region (etc.) to be modular in use.
The sourse of this idea is based upon the fact that each item or region is simply a block of HTML code. This bock of code could be made more modular, allowing for better page structure.
For example, you could create a region, put 2 regions and some items inside it, and put some items inside those sub-regions.
Instead of a page's content being defined as 'which regions are on the page and where are they located', it would be defined as a list of regions and/or items, etc.
Also, as each item/button/text (display only) is a block of HTML code they should all be dealt with equally.
Currently, there exists a distinction between these types of items, in both how they are created and how they are placed in a region. I'd like to see this removed.
In short, I would like to see each item, button, text block (display only), region, report, chart, image etc. all be treated as an 'object' - a block of HTML code.
This would enable a single graphical interface (like a slightly more advanced version of the item drag and drop editor) to modify a page by placing items and regions (containers), and also providing a code-based, text-based method of editing the page.

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ApEx Calendar Region - enhanced behavior using JavaScript

Hi everyone,
I recently wrote about the built in calendar. Comments/remarks are welcome! :)
http://insum-apex.blogspot.com/2008/07/apex-calendar-enhanced-behavior.html
Louis-Guillaume
Homepage : http://www.insum.ca
Blog : http://insum-apex.blogspot.com

Hi Emma,
You could do it with an POP-UP LOV and Dynamic Action.
Dynamic Action
- Change
- item P65_STAFF_ID
True Actions
1 - PL/SQL block;
     - PL/SQL Code in this block you can get the last of first date for the absence of the STAFF_ID and put it in the date item for the calendar (eg P65_CALENDAR_DATE);
     - Page Items to Submit P65_STAFF_ID
     - Page Items to Return P65_CALENDAR_DATE
2 - Execute Javascript Code
     - apex.widget.calendar.ajax_calendar('M','same',$v('P65_CALENDAR_DATE'));
This way the calendar will be refreshed and set to the date in P65_CALENDAR_DATE.
You can also put "null;" in the PL/SQL block, leave the Page Items to Return empty and remove the ",$v('P65_CALENDAR_DATE')" part from the Javascript code. This way you do not open the calendar at the right date.
I made a small example at http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=14257:4 (login as demo/demo).
Regards,
Kees Vlek
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APEX 3.1 Chart Enhancement

Is there any plan that Oracle will include AnyChart Gantt Chart in APEX?
Thanks.
Andy

Hello,
Put it in the APEX 3.1 Enhancement thread
Re: APEX 3.1 Enhancements
Carl

Navigation Bar - Typical uses

More than likely I am "creatively challenged" but I don't see how a Navigation Bar allows for functionality not already provided by other navigation components like tabs, breadcrumbs and lists in conjunction with the Page 0 feature. If anyone has used a Nav Bar extensively, could you please explain the typical use cases? Thanks

I haven't actually used Navigation Bars "extensively" but have been thinking about templates a lot recently and I think gained some insight through that exercise.
As both of you have said, it's all just methods of navigation, so it has to be the differences between the navigation bar, tabs, and lists that provide reasons for using one over the other.
Tabs and the navigation bar (hereinafter "nav bar" to save typing) are similar in that they are, out of the box, global navigation mechanisms with their mark-up and general layout set in page templates. If you use a built-in template or set up your own as required, then the nav bar/tabs will appear on every page utilising that template without any further work. The nav bar can be placed anywhere in the page template – even included more than once – but Page Template Substitutions Order.
Lists however have to be explicitly included in a page by adding a list region. Adding it to Page 0 will make it appear on every page. List mark-up is defined in list templates, with a default template assigned to each list when it is created, but the template can be overridden on a region-by-region basis, which results in great flexibility.
Individual tabs, nav bar entries and list entries can all be included or excluded from display using Conditions. All can have their appearance and positioning completely customised using CSS (given suitable mark-up in the appropriate template). Using this, the App Builder provides hooks to define tabs and list entries as current for one or more pages, allowing for a different appearance that provides orientation for users. Although it is possible to achieve a similar thing with nav bar entries, APEX provides no direct support for this.
Applications can subscribe to nav bar entries published from a master application, which cannot be done with tabs and list entries. This enables a consistent "supra-global" navigation mechanism to be shared across a family of applications in a workspace. Re: APEX 3.1 Enhancements.
Tabs always submit the page. This will not be necessary or desirable for all navigation operations. (Nav bar and list entries can of course be coded to submit if necessary.) Tabs – especially 2-level tabs – Is there any hope of getting two level tabs to work?
Breadcrumbs I haven't considered as much.
So in deciding whether use of the navigation bar is indicated, probably the following would be relevant:
- Do you want to locate navigation links in page templates? – Outside regions? Possibly more than once? Possibly outside the APEX form?
- Do you need to provide common navigation links across applications?
- Do you need links that don't submit the page?

Report Engine enhancements in Future Apex version considrations.

Hi Apex Team,
Just want to stressed and support Arie's point below which he brought up in another thread:
/Quote
There are other areas that IMHO needs the attention of the team, much much more then the UI.
First and foremost, the report engine.
Everyone following this forums knows that printing issues are the least to be answered and solved.
Printing PDF is great, but the content of the reports are much more important.
Report break issues, master details report, and many others are very important issues that need to be address.
The BI publisher is a great tool, but it’s a very expensive one (corporate level).
More simple, built in solutions for hard copy reports (not PDF but simple hard copy printing) is much more important,
IMHO, then almost anything else on the enhancement request list.
Arie Geller
Unquote/
Thanks

Hi,
We are in the midst of migrating our applications from VB/VC to Apex and in our applications, reports account for :
1. User - 30% - 50% of overall application's functionalities in their daily usage.
            This requires mostly hard copy with report's breaks, master details reports.
2. Supervisory / Middle Management - 40% to 70%.
                                      Prefer 20% to 30% of reports in PDF.
3.Top Level Management - 70% to 95%.
                          Prefer most reports in PDF with flash charts where applicable.
Majority of our customers are not considering BI for PDF as costs are too high,
fortunately Apex has other alternatives which we are reviewing currently.
Regards
Zack

How to request APEX product enhancements (such as code protection)

Have reviewed and there are posts that go back to at least 2009 inquiring how to protect apex code from being exported in attempt to protect licensed applications.
As everyone is aware, there exists the ability to export an application read-only, but this does not prevent the APEX administrator from the licensee from changing to run and build once the code has been installed by the licensor. While the procedures and functions may be wrapped, there still exist no way of protecting APEX application code which will be the core work of the licensor.
Sure there is the license agreement between the licensor and licensee, but how difficult could it possibly be to add an export option, such as 'export read-only protected', which would prevent modification to run and build at a later time by the licensee?
An otherwise wonderful product still suffers with this major, yet seemingly easily corrected flaw.

johnny wrote:
how to request APEX product enhancements (such as code protection)
Re: Apex 4.2 wish list, but apparently failed to read my follow-up:
Have reviewed and there are posts that go back to at least 2009 inquiring how to protect apex code from being exported in attempt to protect licensed applications.If that's the criteria then Pagination Sub-template and table-less layouts and XHTML Validation and Accessibility would have 3 years priority on it.
As everyone is aware, there exists the ability to export an application read-only, but this does not prevent the APEX administrator from the licensee from changing to run and build once the code has been installed by the licensor. While the procedures and functions may be wrapped, there still exist no way of protecting APEX application code which will be the core work of the licensor.
Sure there is the license agreement between the licensor and licensee, but how difficult could it possibly be to add an export option, such as 'export read-only protected', which would prevent modification to run and build at a later time by the licensee?
An otherwise wonderful product still suffers with this major, yet seemingly easily corrected flaw.However, as usual, the needs of corporate lawyers appear to count more than those of developers, as the Statement of Direction says that APEX 4.2 will include features to protect our rights to our non-standard and non-semantic apps.

Enhancement Request for APEX 3 - Import / export translation

Hi,
Would it be possible to add this functionality in the next release ?
If we import an application that has a translation in the database (seed) into another APP_ID , we loose the translation.
So for a 100+ pages application, it is really a pain to have to re-translate everything again. (since we cannot use the same xliff file).
It would be nice to import the content of the translation from one application ID into another one or to export the translation with the application export.
Thanks
Francis.

We blogged on this problem on the following link http://iadvise.blogspot.com/2006/12/apex-deploy-your-multilingual.html
We are now working on an Apex application that will help in step 3 of the translation process. It is possible to upload an xliff-file, to make a translation for every source element and to create the xliff file again with the translations. The idea is also to make a kind of dictionary so it will be possible to automate a part of the translation process for words that are repeatedly used. Keep an eye on our blog where we will explain some more on this application.
Btw, which tool do you use to make the translations ?

Enhancement request apex 4.0: fieldset

Hallo,
First thx a lot for the 3.1 version. The new features are realy great. I love the interactive report - showing this to the boss brings a lot of sympathy for apex - it's possible to implemnent this in just a view minutes and ready to play around with nubers. Realy cool - thx a lot.
For forms there are a common html element called "fieldset" that I am missing since ever in apex.
A the item level in the form there may be a item where you can set to which fieldset your item belongs. The rendering process is going throuhg the items as defined by the sequence and should put items into a fieldset as long they fieldset of the following item is the same as the fieldset of the current item. Are e.g. two items set to the same fieldset but not in following order there should be a visual fieldset for every break.
* Definition:
field1 fieldset1
field2 fieldset1
field3 fieldset2
field4 fieldset1
field5 fieldset1
* This may look like this:
- fieldset1 --|
| field1      |
| field2      |
|-------------|
|- fieldset2 -|
| field3      |
|-------------|
|- fieldset1 -|
| fieldset1   |
| field4      |
| field5      |
|-------------|The fieldsets as such can be shared components like with a parent element.
Using the parent element you can nest your fieldsets.
A special region "Fieldset Region" is needed where the items within a region are not layed out within tablecells.
I know currently the regions are used to group items but using fieldsets within your region would allow to make better looking pages when having a lot of items in the forms.
Thx a lot for this great product and keep on going
Willi
Message was edited by:
Willi Firulais
null

Thx for the idea. But for the actual use case this does not help.
The basic use case is that you have some region with a lot of items.
That's fine, because the items all should belong to the same region.
Within the region I have to arrange the items within (visible) fieldsets.
Of course some workaround may be:
- create own region template that surrounds the items layout within the table by a fieldset. And inserting some div's to simulate the "bigger" region.
- using javascript and stripping of the items and re-layout them in fieldsets (what i am currently are doing). This way I have the orignal form region with the buttons, etc.
<script>
var form = jQuery('#apex_layout_1405130856057499.formlayout').hide();
jQuery('tbody tr',form).each(function (i){
jQuery('td',this).contents().appendTo(jQuery(form).parent()).wrapAll("<div></div>");
var legend = "null"; var legend_cache;
jQuery("div", form.parent()).each(function(i){
   text = jQuery("label",this).text();
   text = text.replace(/\*/,'');
   if (text.indexOf(":") >= 0) {
    legend = text.split(':',1)[0];
    if (legend.indexOf(legend_cache) == -1) {
     form.parent().append('<fieldset class="'+legend+'"><legend>'+legend+'</legend></fieldset');
     legend_cache = legend;
    jQuery('fieldset.'+legend).append(this);
</script>Thx for helping with suggestions and taking this request serious,
Willi
Message was edited by:
See for some demo of this javascript here:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=17547:3000
null

Request for little enhancement in APEX 3.0

At definition page it would be nice to see if a region is conditional or not.
Thanks

Hi Scott,
sorry I was partly incorrect. It seems it depends on condition type. I don't see 'conditional' marker when region has condition 'Inline Validation Errors Displayed' or some other conditions that do not require filling Expression1 field. For example, 'Client Browser%' conditions. That confused me.

Null Validation in Tabular Form in APEX 4.2.2

Hi to all respected Gurus of this Forum!
Recently downloaded APEX 4.2.2. As we know that this version has some improved features and one is the best is i.e. *"Validation on Tabular Form".*
For test purpose I succeeded to apply validation on field of tabular form and I am not allowed to "SUBMIT" data as per Validation Rule.
But now, I want to customize that validation as per below logic.
If required field is null than a message-box should appear with two buttons , as under:
Blank field not allowed. Do you really want to submit? (Buttons should be = YES NO)
If user press "YES" then validation should be false and record should be saved
AND
If user press "NO" then no data should be submitted/inserted as per validation logic.
Please help. Your as usual cooperation is highly appreciated in advance.
Regards
Muhammad Uzair Awan
ORACLE APEX Developer
Pakistan

Hello Sabine,
>> I read about enhanced validation in 4.1 and would love to get rid of g_f-programming.
The major “trick” is to associate the validation/process with a Tabular Form. On the first screen of both wizards, the first field is Tabular Form. You must select the tabular form on your page (currently there can be only one. In future versions this will change).
Another factor that might influence the behavior of Tabular Form validation/process is the new attribute of Execution Scope. Unfortunately, you must enter Edit mode to gain access to this attribute (i.e., it can’t be set directly from the Tabular Form create wizard). Set it according to your need.
The rest is very simple. You should treat your Tabular Form as a simple form, where every column header stands for a form item. The following is a very simple example of validating the SAL column:
if :SAL < 1500 then
return 'Sal Value is under 1500';
else
return null;
end if;In this validation I’m using the Function Returning Error Text type.
Regards,
Arie.
&diams; Please remember to mark appropriate posts as correct/helpful. For the long run, it will benefit us all.
&diams; Author of Oracle Application Express 3.2 – The Essentials and More

Apex 4.1. cannot see the details of not null validations generated by apex

Hi there,
I have worked with APEX 3 quite a while. Now I move to new place, and they use APEX 4.
I am currently doing the Advanced Tutorials - Issues Tracker (written for 3.2 ) on an APEX 4.1.
I am quite impressed with a lot of enhanced features of APEX 4.
However, I think I got quite confused about the NOT NULL vaildations.
In the tutorials, they said when creating a form based on a tablle of which the columns have NOT NULL constraint, it will automatically generate NOT NULL validation.
But when I extend the validation section (in both Component View and Tree View), I cannot see any vaildation there.
So I go a head and create some NOT NULL validations for all NOT NULL fields.
Guess what, when I test the form, I got duplicate error messages.
I get these
6 errors have occurred
Project Name must have some value. (Go to error)
Start Date must have some value. (Go to error)
Target End Date must have some value. (Go to error)
Please provide project name. (Go to error)
Please provide project start date. (Go to error)
Please provide target end date. (Go to error)
My validation has error message "Please provide project name" while the automatic one has "Project Name must have some value".
The issue is I cannot find where the automatic validation is.
What if I want to customise the error message rather than just "#Label# must have some value".
Do any of you have any ideas why ?
I guess I must have chosen something wrong during page generation.
It could be quite simple but I don't know where to find the place that turn on/off the automatic not null validation, or at least customize these automatic error messages.
I currenly develop the application using workspace admin account.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Ann

I found it. Turn out to be the Settings, choose No for Required Value.

Include in Export does not work in APEX 3.1

I have a report with many columns. On screen I only show several columns, but on export to CSV I want to include all columns.
However, when "Show on Report" is set to No, and I want to set "Include in Export" to Yes on the "Print Attributes" tab, it does not get updated.
It only gets updated when the "Show on Report" is set to Yes.
It also seems that the "Include in Export" on the "Report Attributes" tab is not in sync with the "Include in Export" on the "Print Attributes" tab the first time you access the "Print Attributes" tab.
Question: Does "Include in Export" only works for columns which has the "Show on Report" set to Yes? If Yes, how can I achieve the above mentioned?
Guido

Marc,
After some investigations the following can be concluded:
On the Report Attributes tab, pick a column, and set "Show Column" to Yes, "Include in Export" to Yes, and no conditions.
I do not want this column to be printed, so on the Print Attributes tab, set the "Column Width" to 0.
When you run the report, you will notice that the column is not included in the export to CSV and not printed.
Setting the "Column Width" to a value greater than 0, the export to CSV works fine, but the column is also printed.
You can have a look at page 1 at at http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=261 (demo/ankpm)
Thanks Patrick for your solution (:REQUEST LIKE 'FLOW_EXCEL_OUTPUT_%'), it works great. The column is now not show on screen but included in the export to CSV. However, you have to set the column width to a value greater than 0.
An enhancement request for 4.0 could be to also have a property "Include in Print", and that this property and "Include in Export" are not dependent on the "Show Column" value.
Guido

Apex use in the enterprise?

Any Apex experts care to respond to the list of advantages / disadvantages that we have come up with - while doing due diligence for potential rollout of Apex as a development platform for the enterprise?
Many thanks in advance.
Please note that we know little to nothing about Apex. But we do know the database. I have read other threads in this forum where it is mentioned that all database utilites (dbms_*) are available to be used in apex - and this is a major plus point - agreed. Do know that metalink is apex based.
Would love to have oracle apex developers respond.
Oracle Application Express Architecture - Due Diligence
Advantages
(1)     RAD development for data centric Web applications.
(2)     Out of box support for some HTML page templates. For example, sort, search, save data to CSV, ...
(3)     Reduce required skill sets for PL/SQL developers on web application development.
(4)     Performance boost on a small scale non-enterprise Web applications.
(5)     Single vendor within integrated Oracle administration environment.
(6)     Out of box charting and reporting supports.
Disadvantages
(1)     Application operates within Oracle instance which imposes considerable resource overheads due to HTTP session tracking and JVM environment.
(2)     APEX supports through discussion forum not a formal support channel.
(3)     This two tier non-SOA data centric configuration requires high end machines to power up Oracle instances for mission critical applications. N-tier SOA architecture can easily scale up and scale out by using economic efficient hardware.
(4)     A non-traditional security configuration requires either database accounts or APEX accounts.
(5)     It requires very specific skill sets if future application enhancements does not fall into out of box APEX templates.
(6)     Single Sign On (SSO) requires add-on SDK which makes it quite difficult and sometimes impossible to integrate with other applications.
(7)     It operates under Oracle HTTP server with J2EE environment. This requires a different technology expertise for performance tuning.
(8)     APEX application is vendor specific and offers no portability at all.
Summary
(1)     APEX is targeted to replace MS Access like applications to provide better security, scalability and stability.
(2)     APEX is well suited for web RAD development by DBAs.
(3)     APEX is suited for data centric application such as maintain some database records….
(4)     APEX is not suited for provisioning services.
(5)     APEX is not suited for high volume transaction Web applications.
(6)     APEX is not suited for any applications required LDAP typed security or SSO.
(7)     APEX does not provide any portability outside of Oracle.

I think you need to review some of these comments..
Any Apex experts care to respond to the list of
advantages / disadvantages that we have come up with
- while doing due diligence for potential rollout of
Apex as a development platform for the enterprise?
Many thanks in advance.
Please note that we know little to nothing about
Apex. But we do know the database. I have read other
threads in this forum where it is mentioned that all
database utilites (dbms_*) are available to be used
in apex - and this is a major plus point - agreed. Do
know that metalink is apex based.
Would love to have oracle apex developers respond.
Oracle Application Express Architecture - Due
Diligence
Advantages
(1)     RAD development for data centric Web
applications.
(2)     Out of box support for some HTML page templates.
For example, sort, search, save data to CSV, ...
(3)     Reduce required skill sets for PL/SQL developers
on web application development.
(4)     Performance boost on a small scale non-enterprise
Web applications.
(5)     Single vendor within integrated Oracle
administration environment.
(6)     Out of box charting and reporting supports.
Disadvantages
(1)     Application operates within Oracle instance which
imposes considerable resource overheads due to HTTP
session tracking and JVM environment.What exactly is the point in this comment? APEX applications run in the database, they do NOT rely on the JVM...
(2)     APEX supports through discussion forum not a
formal support channel.APEX DOES get support from the standard Oracle tech support. However, I would think it is faster to post a message HERE and get a response from the actual developers of the product than having to go through channels..
(3)     This two tier non-SOA data centric configuration
requires high end machines to power up Oracle
instances for mission critical applications. N-tier
SOA architecture can easily scale up and scale out by
using economic efficient hardware.However hearty a db server you have now should suffice for using APEX. YOu are in reality running SQL statements against the database.
(4)     A non-traditional security configuration requires
either database accounts or APEX accounts.NOT TRUE. Please review documents again.. YOu can BUILD internal security in application, or rely on LDAP or Single Sign on from Oracle..
(5)     It requires very specific skill sets if future
application enhancements does not fall into out of
box APEX templates.HTML and CSS development skills. If you develop web sites, you should be comfortable with this..
(6)     Single Sign On (SSO) requires add-on SDK which
makes it quite difficult and sometimes impossible to
integrate with other applications.Wrong here again. Please refer to documentation.
(7)     It operates under Oracle HTTP server with J2EE
environment. This requires a different technology
expertise for performance tuning.Sorry, what again?
(8)     APEX application is vendor specific and offers no
portability at all.Unlike ASP or ASP.NET from M$? Or what vendor independent products are you thinking of? Pearl? Ruby on Rails? APEX RUNS in the database, so you'd think it just MIGHT be specific to an Oracle database and Oracle product..
>
>
Summary
(1)     APEX is targeted to replace MS Access like
applications to provide better security, scalability
and stability.More than that actually..
(2)     APEX is well suited for web RAD development by
DBAs.NOT Even close.. Developers DO use it.. DBA's support the database end..
(3)     APEX is suited for data centric application such
as maintain some database records….Not even going to try and get into this.. Data centric applications? What would a non data centric application be again?
(4)     APEX is not suited for provisioning services.Explain this one, please..
(5)     APEX is not suited for high volume transaction
Web applications.Hmm, you mean like Oracle Metalink? Or Ask Tom? These ARE high traffic sites, and gooly gee, they ARE built using APEX..
(6)     APEX is not suited for any applications required
LDAP typed security or SSO.Wrong here, please read the documentation.
(7)     APEX does not provide any portability outside of
Oracle.And how could it, it is based in the database.....
Shesh, does that mean because I can't use a fishing pole to catch deer it has no purpose?
Tony Miller
UTMB/EHN

Administration of APEX in SQL Developer with Proxy Authentication impossibl

Hello!
We are using latest version of SQL Developer to administer APEX. We are connecting to the database with proxy authentication. The syntax is:
personal_user[apex_ws_owner]
e.g.: mdecker[apex_demo]
When trying to deploy APEX application I go to "Database Object" -> Application Express -> Application1 [100] -> right mouse click: "Deploy Application". Then I select the appropriate database identifier and next, I am presented with a screen showing import options. In second line, it says: "Parsing Schema: MDECKER".
This is wrong: it has to be Parsing Schema: APEX_DEMO. It seems that managing APEX with SQL Developer does not support Proxy Authentication.
Could you please confirm?
Is there a way to formally ask for this enhancement?
Best regards,
Martin
Update:
I found out that if I check the flag "Proxy Authentication" in the connect details and provide both passwords, the deploy application parsing schema is set to the correct APEX_DEMO account. However, we are using Proxy Authentication in order to avoid having to know the application password.
Edited by: mdecker on Jan 28, 2013 4:48 PM

There is a write-up about connecting to APEX here: <a href ="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/sql_dev_integration.html" >SQL Dev Oracle APEX Integration</a>
<p>You do need to have updated to Oracle APEX 3.0.1.
<p>Regards <br>
Sue

ApEx 3.1 BLOBs, /pls/apex/apex_util.get_blob_file not found on server

Hi all
I'm trying some of the enhanced BLOB functionality in one of our apps as it could really make life easier for our users.
We have a table with 4 BLOBs that the user can use to upload various documents.
The upload (insert / update) seems to be working OK and as far as I can tell is making it through to the database table (I've checked using dbms_lob.getlength).
However the 'Download' link provided on the form I can't get to work for love nor money. I always get this error in the browser (all browsers) :
The requested URL /pls/apex/apex_util.get_blob_file was not found on this server.Checking the Apache log file (we're using mod_plsql) I see that :
[Mon Apr 07 15:46:20 2008] [error] [client XX.XX.XX.XX] [ecid: 1207579580:192.168.20.2:2060:280:1501,0] mod_plsql: /pls/apex/apex_util.get_blob_file HTTP-404 ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement\nORA-06512: at "SYS.WWV_DBMS_SQL", line 196\nORA-06512: at "FLOWS_030100.WWV_FLOW_DML", line 1537\nORA-06512: at "FLOWS_030100.HTMLDB_UTIL", line 1532\nORA-06512: at line 22\nHas anyone else seen this? I have used this function successfully elsewhere but can't work out why it's not working on this page. I have defined (and assigned) mimetype, filename & updated date columns...
The built link looks like this :
http://<server>/pls/apex/apex_util.get_blob_file?a=105&s=935234205856194&p=32&d=6525565218047259&i=1070820865186800&p_pk1=282&p_pk2=10&p_ck=607EA2AE0D32BCB66F3857A0458E2550&p_content_disposition=attachmentThe values for p_pk1 and p_pk2 seem correct and the a (app id) is correct also.
Thanks,
Steve

Steve,
Thanks for reporting this issue. We have a known bug in APEX 3.1 which does not let you work declaratively with BLOBs when you have multiple blobs per table. We hope to have this fixed in a patch. We also need to post it on our known issues page for interactive reports.
Mike

APEX 3.1 Enhancements

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