Avdanced Table Views Not Filtering

Question

I have an issue with an advanced table's views. The filters defined for the views are not applied to the data when the view is applied.
I can save the views fine but when I open the view all the available data is listed instead of just the data that should be shown based upon the view that was saved.
I'm thinking that either the view did not save the criteria that was entered and run prior to choosing to save the view or that the view isn't applying the criteria to the VO.
Any ideas would be helpful.
Also, when choosing to create the view the shuttle for including or excluding table columns does not show up. Any thoughts as to why this is the case?
Thanks,
Jason

Answer 1

This will let you choose:
Not perfect, but it gets it done :)
    select owner       "Owner",
          table_name  "Table_Name",
          column_name "Column_Name",
          initcap(data_type) ||
             decode(data_type, 
                    'CHAR',      '('|| char_length ||')',
                    'VARCHAR',   '('|| char_length ||')',
                    'VARCHAR2',  '('|| char_length ||')',
                    'NCHAR',     '('|| char_length ||')',        
                    'NVARCHAR',  '('|| char_length ||')', 
                    'NVARCHAR2', '('|| char_length ||')',
                    'NUMBER',    '('||
                     nvl(data_precision,data_length)||
                         decode(data_scale,null,null,
                                ','||data_scale)||')',
                       null) "Type",
          nullable "Nullable",
          owner       sdev_link_owner,
          table_name  sdev_link_name,
          'TABLE'     sdev_link_type
     from sys.all_tab_columns
    where nvl( :OWNER, user) = owner
      and (:TABLE_NAME is null or
           DECODE(:FUZZY_SEARCH, 'Y', instr(upper(table_name),upper(:TABLE_NAME)), - 1)  > 0
           OR upper(table_name) = upper(:TABLE_NAME)
      and (:COLUMN_NAME is null or
           DECODE(:FUZZY_SEARCH, 'Y', instr(upper(column_name),upper(:COLUMN_NAME)), -1) > 0
           OR upper(column_name) = upper(:COLUMN_NAME)
      and substr(table_name,1,4) != 'BIN$'
      and substr(table_name,1,3) != 'DR$'
    order by owner, table_name, column_id