Bulk Printing?

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I'm developing an application that requires a bulk print of all customer records. Each customer should have their own page that lists all of their orders. I have a database view that lists this information, ordered by customer then order, but I'm struggling with printing it off.
Using a vertical report template and breaking at the customer ID (which is the first column) I can kind of display the information one after the other, but it's not really what I want as some fields repeat that I don't want to.
What I really need is to have the first 9 columns to show once per page (customer details) then the remaining 5 columns to show that refer to the orders. Then this to repeat on the next page for the next customer and so on.
e.g.
PAGE 1
customer1 name
customer 1 address
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customer1 order2
customer1 order3
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customer2 address
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Chris,
What I wound up doing is creating a package, so each data table basically had it's own procedure, and everything was kept all together.
The first procedure in my package just sets up all of the initial HTML and css code as follows:
PROCEDURE doc_start IS
BEGIN
htp.print('<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">');
htp.print('<html>');
htp.print('<head>');
htp.print(' <title>New Mineral Resource Data System (NewMRDS)</title>');
htp.print(' <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css">');
htp.print(' <STYLE TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="screen, print">');
htp.print('');
htp.print('</STYLE>');
htp.print('</head>');
htp.print('<body>');
END doc_start;Nothing fancy, so it's easy (if you have a good css reference around) to modify it suit your needs.
The next prodecure simply grabs the data I need/want from my 'master/parent' data table, and then creates a HTML table, and then wraps the data values with the appropriate html table tags, as follows:
PROCEDURE deposit_info(dep_id_in IN NUMBER) IS
TYPE depc IS REF CURSOR;
v_cursor depc;
v_rec    deposits%ROWTYPE;
v_sql    VARCHAR2(1000);
BEGIN
v_sql := 'SELECT DEP_ID, NAME, REC_TP, DEV_ST, DEP_TP, '
      || 'PLANT_TP, PLANT_IDENT, OPER_TP, MIN_METH, MILL_METH, '
      || 'YFP_BA, YR_FST_PRD, YLP_BA, YR_LST_PRD, DISC_METH, '
      || 'DY_BA, DISC_YR, PROD_YRS, DISCR, SITE_COMMOD_TYPE, '
      || 'SIG, PROD_SIZE, INSERTED_BY, INSERT_DATE, UPDATED_BY, '
      || 'UPDATE_DATE, LAST_DEP_MOD, LAST_DEP_ACTION, LAST_DEP_TABLE, MAS_ID, '
      || 'MRDS_ID '
      || 'FROM deposits WHERE 1=1';
IF dep_id_in IS NOT NULL THEN
dbms_session.set_context('THIS_CONTEXT', 'DEP_ID', dep_id_in);
v_sql := v_sql || ' and dep_id = sys_context(''THIS_CONTEXT'', ''DEP_ID'')';
END IF;
OPEN v_cursor FOR v_sql;
LOOP
FETCH v_cursor INTO v_rec;
EXIT WHEN v_cursor%NOTFOUND;
htp.print('<p>');
htp.print('<pre><tt>');
htp.print('<h2>General Site Information:</h2>');
htp.print('<table CLASS=common>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Record Type:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.REC_TP||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Deposit Type:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DEP_TP||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Development Status:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DEV_ST||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Operation Type:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.OPER_TP||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Plant Type:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.PLANT_TP||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Plant Identifier:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.PLANT_IDENT||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Mining Method:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.MIN_METH||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Milling Method:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.MILL_METH||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Year of First Production:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.YFP_BA||v_rec.YR_FST_PRD||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Year of Last Production:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.YLP_BA||v_rec.YR_LST_PRD||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Years of Production:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.PROD_YRS||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Year of Discovery:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DY_BA||v_rec.DISC_YR||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Discovery Method:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DISC_METH||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Discoverer:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DISCR||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Site Commodity Types:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.SITE_COMMOD_TYPE||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Significant:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.SIG||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Record added:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.INSERT_DATE||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Added By:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.INSERTED_BY||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Last Deposit Modification:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.LAST_DEP_MOD||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Last Table Modified:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.LAST_DEP_TABLE||' - '||v_rec.LAST_DEP_ACTION||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('</table>');
htp.print('</tt></pre>');
htp.print('<hr>');
END LOOP;
END deposit_info;Again, nothing fancy or convoluted. I then just simply loop through all of my child (and grand-child) tables to get all the data for each of them as well, and handle each of them similarly. It did get a little more convoluted with the child/grand-child relations, but that wasn't anything major, I just had to define the procedure for the grand-child before the child, since the child table had to loop through the grand-child table for each child record.
For your case, in each table's procedure, you can add some checks to see if the current value of a field is the same as the previous value, and not print it if it's same, so you can achieve the break formatting you want.
I ended the package with two other procedures, one that ensures I print all of the code needed to close a HTML document, and the last one simply call all of the procedure in the order I want, as follows:
PROCEDURE doc_end IS
BEGIN
htp.print('</body>');
htp.print('</html>');
END doc_end;
PROCEDURE print_doc(dep_id_in IN NUMBER) IS
BEGIN
doc_start;
Page_Header(dep_id_in);
deposit_info(dep_id_in);
name_info(dep_id_in);
reporter_info(dep_id_in);
location_info(dep_id_in);
geoc_info(dep_id_in);
plss_info(dep_id_in);
commod_info(dep_id_in);
owner_info(dep_id_in);
holdings_info(dep_id_in);
anl_data_info(dep_id_in);
districts_info(dep_id_in);
drainage_info(dep_id_in);
land_st_info(dep_id_in);
physio_info(dep_id_in);
map_info(dep_id_in);
non_stand_map_info(dep_id_in);
model_info(dep_id_in);
orebody_info(dep_id_in);
rock_age_info(dep_id_in);
material_info(dep_id_in);
structures_info(dep_id_in);
tectonic_info(dep_id_in);
concentration_info(dep_id_in);
alteration_info(dep_id_in);
ore_info(dep_id_in);
resource_info(dep_id_in);
production_info(dep_id_in);
workings_info(dep_id_in);
other_dbs_info(dep_id_in);
comments_info(dep_id_in);
bib_references_info(dep_id_in);
doc_end;
END print_doc;It's fairly straightforward, and shouldn't be that difficult to adapt to your needs and data structure, if you know PL/SQL.
The 'stuff' in the deposit_info procedure about 'context' I ran across on a previous thread on here that had a link to the asktom site.
Hope this helps and gets you pointed in the right direction. Feel free to ask any questions.
Bill Ferguson

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