Bug in Apex's PDF printing?

Hi All,
I have been using BI Publisher as my print server for some time now. I have always generated PDF files and this was more or less OK.
However, I have tried to change the generated output from PDF to any other type (Word or HTML) but the application stills is generating reports in PDF!
Steps to reproduce:
- In my Report Query I have simply changed the Format to Word.
- Clicking on the Test Report link on the right produces the desired output in Word format.
- Clicked on the Apply Changes button.
- Clicked on the button in my application to generate a report - this causes the report to be generated but still in PDF!
NOTE: I have tried to create a new queary from scratch but that didn't help.
Is there a bug or am I missing something here?
Regards,
Pawel.

Jan,
I expect that we will address this with our next release of Application Express, don't have a date for that yet though,
Marc

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Matt,
On this note, it probably also makes sense to mention that with APEX 3.1 we introduce a PL/SQL API that gives you much broader control over what is generated how and the method it's made available to the client. You'll get the ability to retrieve the PDF in a BLOB directly on the server, store in your own tables for later download or send via email attachment. You'll also get the ability to write your own download process using after-submit page processes. And you can have combinations of your own XML with your own stylesheets, or combine report queries with customer stylesheets at runtime, or just simply retrieve the results of pre-defined report queries / report layouts in BLOBs.
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Sorry mate, Apex doesn't score well when it comes to generating reports out of the box - however it does integrate with other options.
BI Publisher - I thought the figure was more like $50k, but I guess it depends on your currency.
Configuration details direct from Oracle
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/configure-printing-093060.html
Setting up reports
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/db/apex/r31/apex31nf/apex31rpt.htm
You can set up Cocoon using Carl's viewlet
http://carlback.blogspot.com/2007/03/apex-cocoon-pdf-and-more.html
If you want to use Cocoon or Apache FOP and you don't have a skilled XSL developer, you can spend a small amount cash for this WYSIWYG editor
http://www.java4less.com/fopdesigner/fodesigner.php
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http://ora-00001.blogspot.com/2011/02/working-with-office-2007-ooxml-files.html
http://monkeyonoracle.blogspot.com/2009/07/dynamic-rtf-documents-revisited.html
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http://jasperforge.org/index.php?q=project/ireport
Dietmar Aust loves it
http://daust.blogspot.com.au/2009/06/odtug2009-pdf-printing.html
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Scott

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Sunil
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Nilo Segura
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