Bursting from a dataTemplate

Question

Hi,
I'm having trouble bursting from a dataTemplate. The problem I'm having is with how to pass the request id to my default package at the after report trigger.
I have my dataTemplate set up and without the dataTrigger section it all works fine.
When you're doing bursting from the xml output produced by a .rdf file, one of the parameters is the request id, so you can simply go to the afterReport trigger in the rdf and call the bursting program using that request id parameter, as outlined by Tim Dexter http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/04/05/ and reproduced several times round the blogs & help.
I've tried including the concurrent request id in the sql using fnd_global.CONC_REQUEST_ID but that doesn't appear to be available outside the dataDefinition section.
I've tried various ways of passing the concurrent request id from the apps, such as calling CURRVAL from the fnd_concurrent_requests_s sequence (that doesn't work as you have to call nextval before currval is available to a session)
Any ideas? Or do I have to work with Report Builder to burst xml output?

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for the prompt response, though I don't think those links answer my question. They give a very comprehensive tutorial on how to implement bursting where the starting point for the report is created using Oracle Reports Builder - you create the rdf, set the output to xml, then use the afterReport trigger to call the bursting program using the concurrent request id that Oracle Reports has passed to it as a parameter.
What I wanted to know is whether it's possible to do bursting when NOT using oracle reports, but using a dataTemplate to define both the sql query (or queries) and the data structure. In the documentation it says you can include a dataTrigger section such as <dataTrigger name="afterReport" source="myDefaultPackage.SomeFunction(:PARAM)"/> (The exact example they give is <dataTrigger name="beforeReport" source="employee.beforeReport(:Parameter)"/>)
Are you saying what I'm trying to do is just impossible and I need to use an rdf report?