Button branch to filtered interactive report

Is it possible to have a button branch to an interactive report and filter it per click of the button rather than using the search bar? Basically my user wants the same action as the search bar but in button form on the previous page.
I know, I know...somoetimes you've just gotta say, "NO" to users, as well.
Edited by: userRRRYB on Apr 12, 2010 1:06 PM

You could reference your form fields in the where clause like this:
SELECT something
FROM some_table st
WHERE (:F100_FILTER_01 IS NULL OR st.col_name_01=:F100_FILTER_01)
AND (:F100_FILTER_02 IS NULL OR st.col_name_02=:F100_FILTER_02);You have to compare the filter to NULL as well. That way, if they don't enter anything in the form field, they will get all records. I've done this with one app, and the users really like it.
Rick

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Adding Every Row From a Filtered Interactive Report to a Collection

I'm creating an email list maintenance application in Apex 3.1. I have an Interactive Report on an email address table. I want the users to be able to run this IR and then click a button to add all of the resulting email addresses into a selected mailing list table. The interface needs to be as quick and simple for the user as possible, so I don't want to force them to click a checkbox beside hundreds of rows.
Is there a way to add every resulting row from a custom IR to an apex_collection?
I know that collections can be created based on a query with the CREATE_COLLECTION_FROM_QUERY call. But I don't think it's possible to reference the SQL statement which is dynamically generated through an Interactive Report. I'm referring to the SQL created after the user has applied filters. If there were, then I would just create the collection that way. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks,
Martin

Hi Martin
I couldn't find a place where the filters are stored either - it would be nice to know.
It is possible to get to the filters via javascript as they are actually stored in a table with an id of "apexir_CONTROL_PANEL_COMPLETE". Within there, there are rows for each filter and each row has four cells. The second cell contains an A tag that has the filter itself as the text displayed as a hyperlink on screen. The third cell contains the checkbox that enables/disables the filter. Strings and numbers seem to be formatted ok, so you could pick up these values and create your own WHERE clause, populate a hidden field somewhere and then pick that up to generate a full select statement to get to the id's that you need.
I haven't yet tried this, so this is theory only - but I can't see that it wouldn't work
Andy

Filtering interactive report question

hi all,
i created an interactive report that uses a query like this..
SELECT i.issue_id "ID",
i.title "TITLE",
i.module "MODULE",
u1.last_name || ', ' || u1.first_name || ' ' || SUBSTR(u1.middle_name,   1,   1) || '.' "OWNER",
u2.last_name || ', ' || u2.first_name || ' ' || SUBSTR(u2.middle_name,   1,   1) || '.' "REPORTED BY",
i.report_date "DATE REPORTED",
u3.last_name || ', ' || u3.first_name || ' ' || SUBSTR(u3.middle_name,   1,   1) || '.' "SUBMITTER"
FROM issues i,
users u1,
users u2,
users u3
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_idi created an application item called APP_USERID and added a process on the 101 page to select the userid into :APP_USERID from users_table where username = :app_user.
i want to create a default filter based on the current user's user_id. if i change my query like this
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_id
AND i.owner = :APP_USERIDit works fine but if i wanted to view all records not just owned by the current user, i will have a problem.
can anyone suggest an approach on how i can solve this.
thanks.
regards,
allen

Hi Allen,
I tried some different things in the Interactive reports (make a default with :ITEM or &ITEM.), but they didn't work.
The only why I can think of now how to get it work is by adding in your query a DECODE or NVL
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_id
AND i.owner = NVL(:APP_USERID,i.owner)
Basically what it does, if the value of :APP_USERID is set it will use that, if that value is null it will return all records. So you would have a process or computation that sets the item APP_USERID to null when you hit something to get all records.
Regards,
Dimitri
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Filtering Interactive Report which has combo box

Hi,
I am a rookie in apex.I have an interactive report in which I have a column which contain's only combo box's. Let me say for example that the display values are Yes and No and the return values are Y and N and the name of the column as "required". When I try to filter the report, I can do so for all the other column's but when I try to do so for this column, I get two combo box's when I click on the expression filter instead of the Yes or No choices. I want the choices to appear in the filter for 'required' column instead of the combo box's. How can I do this? ...I have been searching google in vain...Thanks in advance
Edited by: user13073434 on May 3, 2010 8:27 PM

Do I have to recompile this .rdf on the UNIX box again? No.
How to go about this problem?Have a look at the following notes:
Note: 337302.1 - Error REP-0756 Unable to find PL/SQL library 'inv.pll' when Opening Report POXPRPOP in Reports Builder
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=337302.1
Note: 1015074.1 - REP-756,REP-735,REP-736 OPENING REPORT WITH FILESYSTEM ATTACHED LIBRARY
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=1015074.1
Note: 1016542.6 - Getting REP-0756 : Unable to Find PLsql when Running Standard Reports
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=1016542.6

Filtering Interactive Reports with Greater Than Less Than Operators

The available filter operators in the interactive reports do not include greater than or less than. How is it possible to enable an application user to filter records where greater than or less then logic is needed?
For example the user wants to query records where sysdate falls between a start and end date.
Regards,
Todd

Ya know, that's all well and good ... BUT ... WHAT IF you do want to sort text type columns with Greater Than and Less Than operatiors??
SQL does it just Fine ... so WHY does APEX have the limit??? This is an Oracle BUG ... it SHOULD NOT limit the operators ... I realize "they" may be trying to be helpful with proper constraints to field searches ... but ... if SQL can do it, then ... no need for a limit.
EG ...
Show the records where
the "Begin_Year-Wk" data is less than or equal to "2009-09" AND
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... to give everything that was running in that 5 week period whether or not it starts within that time frame
I can run this query perfectly fine via SQL ... but not in APEX ... unless I reconvert a lot of strings back to numbers, and for sorting / formatting / explain-to-user purposes, I really don't want them to be numbers.
So ... there's gotta be a hidden tweak for operators somewhere ...

Retrieve SQL with filters applied from an Interactive Report

I want to use an Interactive report as interface for providing parameters to a base report query.
I would like to capture the full SQL code from the filtered interactive report and then run the sql to create a collection.
I have found this tread
Re: Using Data from filtered Interactive Report
which says that you can use APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR to access the reports SQL. This holds the information about the interactive report when the user saves it. The sql code from the interactive report (after the user has added filters) is stored in the field sql_query.I can only retrieve the base query and not the filtered version even after saving.
Any ideas how this can be done would be appreciated.
regards
PP

OK Darren I think I've got it working. My solution is an adaption that follows the steps of a blog I found here: http://stewstools.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/get-ir-where-clause/
My solution allows you to click on a button and the records that are currently displayed in the IR report are saved to an APEX collection. You can then use the collection to save records to a table or run a report on another page. (I haven't included code for this last step but it's easy to find on the forum)
First a bit of background knowledge. The following APEX views hold all the information on IRs that you access via PLSQL code in the package you need to download. Run an IR report, save a version of the report, then in SQL Workshop have a look at:
select * from APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR
select * from APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_COND
select * from APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_COL
select * from APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_RPT
When you run an IR report it has an internal ID that you can access and also a Base Id for each Saved report that is currently in context.
Here are the steps:
1) Download the following package and install it in the workspace schema
http://www.mediafire.com/?nj118x9vmc9
click on the link "click here to download"
2)In the HTML header Attribute of the page where your IR runs, put the following Javascript:


<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function SaveAndRunReport() {
document.location='f?p=&APP_ID.:3:&SESSION.:CONSTRUCT_IR_QUERY:NO::'+
'P3_BASE_REPORT_ID:'+$v('apexir_REPORT_ID');
</script>

Notes: You will need to obviously change the URL above to reflect your Page No. (3) and the name of a HIDDEN Item (P3_BASE_REPORT_ID) that you will populate with the base ID of the report.
Setting :P3_BASE_REPORT_ID to +$v('apexir_REPORT_ID') is an internal thing and works out of the box. It returns the Id of the Base report.
3) Create a button called SELECT_SPECIMENS (in region position - top of region) in the IR region that will initiate the execution of the IR background SQL to create a collection with the current selected records.
TARGET= URL
URL Target = javascript:SaveAndRunReport();
You might also want to create a condition that only shows the button when there are records selected
CONDITION TYPE=Exists(SQL returns at least one row)
EXPRESSION 1 - put the SQL of the IR report here.
4)Create a branch back to the same page (3) and with the REQUEST attribute set to the value in the Javascript URL above e.g. CONSTRUCT_IR_QUERY. Create a condition on the branch that uses this branch WHEN BUTTON PRESSED= SELECT_SPECIMENS
5) Create an AFTER HEADER PROCESS with the following code:
declare
v_base_query clob;
v_where clob;
v_query clob;
v_base_where varchar2(12):=' where 1=1 '; -- incase there is no where clause in the base query
begin
if apex_collection.collection_exists('IR_COLLECTION') THEN
htmldb_collection.delete_collection( p_collection_name => 'IR_COLLECTION');
end if;
--GET THE BASE QUERY OF THE IR REPORT
select sql_query
into v_base_query
from APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR
where application_id=:APP_ID
and page_id=:APP_PAGE_ID; -- you can only have one IR report per page
--UNCOMMENT TO VIEW THE PARAMETERS TO THE PACKAGED FUNCTION
--raise_application_error(-20001, :APP_ID||'-'||:APP_PAGE_ID||'-'||:SESSION||'-'||:P3_BASE_REPORT_ID);
--GET THE SQL FILTER CODE
select apex_ir_query.ir_query_where(:APP_ID,:APP_PAGE_ID,:SESSION,:P3_BASE_REPORT_ID)
into v_where
from dual;
--CHECK TO SEE THAT THERE IS A "WHERE" CLAUSE IN THE BASE QUERY
if instr(upper(v_base_query),'WHERE ') > 0 then
v_query:=v_base_query||' '||v_where;
else
v_query:=v_base_query||' '||v_base_where||' '||v_where;
end if;
--UNCOMMENT TO SEE THE FULL QUERY SYNTAX
--raise_application_error(-20001,v_query);
--CREATE COLLECTION FROM IR RECORDS
apex_collection.create_collection_from_query(P_collection_name=>'IR_COLLECTION',p_query=>v_query);
exception
when others then
raise_application_error(-20001, 'Interactive report not found. Contact Administrator. Could not create collection of records.');
end;
remember to update P3_BASE_REPORT_ID above to your HIDDEN ITEM name.
Set the following attributes for the process above
CONDITIONAL PROCESSING
CONDITION TYPE = Request=Expression 1
EXPRESSION 1 --> CONSTRUCT_IR_QUERY (Note: this was set on the branch in step 4 above)
6) Run the IR report, click on the "SELECT SPECIMENS" button then click on the Session link on the Developer's Toolbar and select VIEW COLLECTIONS from the popup list then click GO. You should now see the IR records.
By the way I've been testing in IE not Firefox.
...and that's it!
enjoy
Paul P

Placing buttons in a region displaying an Interactive Report

Hi,
I have a page on which I am displaying an interactive report.I would like to place buttons on this region where the report is displayed-
- The first button right of the search bar of the interactive report
- The second button right of the first button.
- The third (exactly ) below the second button (still right of the search bar)
I am aware that if this where an HTML region,then I would have had the flexibility to place the third button in a new line without a problem,but can I achieve this in a region displaying an interactive report?
Is there any way to do this?
Regards,
Priya Jetley

Create the buttons as region buttons in the IR region, with the following properties:
Button Position: Right of Interactive Report Search Bar
Button Alignment: Left Right
Enter *style="display: block; float: right;"* in the Button Attributes of the third button.
Edited by: fac586 on Nov 11, 2008 8:04 AM
Changed to fix slight layout glitch in Firefox 2.
Edited by: fac586 on Nov 11, 2008 9:06 AM
Changed back as the slight glitch in FF2 is preferable to not working in FF3 and Safari

Interactive Reports - Problem (possible bug) with button template?

Hey all,
I possibly noticed a problem with the use of the button template of the search bar in an interactive report.
When I for example choose 'Button Alternative 1' as Button template and then save my report then it looks perfect.
When I now Export/import my application, I loose the button template of my interactive report, if I open the report attributes it isn't selected anymore.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Apex version: 3.1.2.00.02
Kind regards,
Oli

Oli,
Thanks for bringing this up. One of my beta testers just called to say that two of our IRs weren't showing the Cancel or Apply buttons at all. But the third IR worked fine. In my Alpha version, all three had Buttons as the selected style, so I'm a bit confused what went wrong.
But now I'm thinking if the fact that I had multiple themes defined in the application might have caused the confusion. I didn't deploy the themes from Alpha to Beta because they were all based on Theme 13, and I thought my extensions were included in the application export (which I didn't realize until recently). I'm guessing that if I drop the extraneous themes on Alpha and re-select the button theme, I should be okay when I deploy again?
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Another Interactive Report Question

Hi guys!
Is it possible to create link which filters Interactive Report? I would like to create a report on one page which contains all the user saved interactive reports and then if another users clicks one, page changes to a page with an interactive report and the saved report opens?
With regards,
PsmakR

I'm referring to this help text in Advanced attributes - "If saved versions of the report exist, this specifies if they should be displayed as tabs. Turn tabs off if you want to create a separate page with a list of reports.". This is my goal - separate page with reports with on click page redicrection to saved report.
Im looking through help file and found this:
Report ID Item
This attribute enables you to send a user directly to a saved view of the report that they have saved. You specify an item whose value stores the report ID of the saved view. Report ID's can be retrieved from the APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_RPT view.
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Implement a normal insert process in an interactive report

Hello,
I want to implement a normal insert process for an interactive report. For which I have created an pl/sql anonymous block with the process. This process will be fired when I click the create button of the New record insert region.
insert into table_name(YR_MO,STATUS,UPDATED_DT,ID) values
(to_char(sysdate,'YYYYMM'),:P1_STATUS,sysdate,:P1_ID);
YR_MO is my primary key column in tha table.
For inserting purposes I have created a separate (New record insert) region, with the items P1_STATUS and P1_ID amd a create button.
Within the interactive report, i have a button Create_New when I click this button the New record insert region should open up and in that region, i have the items P1_STATUS,P1_ID.
My problem is when I click the Create_New button within the interactive report, the records are getting inserted. I dnon't understand what might be the problem, because the insert process should be fired when i click the create button within the New record insert region but it is firing when I click the create_new button.
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Does the insert process fire on a specific request only? And do the two buttons have different request values (names)?

Interactive Report NLS Language

Hi again,
Apex 3.2.0
Oracle XE
I was wondering if you could help.
I have a combo box on a form region that selects a language. The idea of this is to change the number and date formats when displaying data in reports and on forms.
On my reports and forms my format strings are set to a page item e.g. :P10_CURRENCY_FORMAT which contains the oracle currency format I need, e.g. FML999G999G999G999G990D00.
I can then set the NLS_CURRENCY value by either altering the session or via the apex.util:
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_CURRENCY='£';
or
APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE('FSP_LANGUAGE_PREFERENCE','en-gb');
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This all works fine until I get to filtering interactive reports.
The problem is when I want to filter interactive reports all the currency settings are set back to the APEX defaults set in APPLICATION/GLOBALIZATION.
I then created a BEFORE HEADER process to alter the session, however when filtering interactive reports, the page isn't refreshed so this takes no effect.
So I have ended up with £ symbols in my report columns and when I filter it, they all change to $ symbols, the next page reverts back to £ until I filter again.
Am I going about it all the wrong way, or does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
Blackstone.

This approach won't work with interactive reports as the Before Header process is not executed by the AJAX call that refreshes the report.
This is a deficiency in IR operation that we can hope will be addressed by a future enhancement to provide the ability to run processes pre- and post-IR refresh.
In the meantime, IR refreshes do run the Virtual Private Database PL/SQL call defined in the application security attributes, so putting the NLS modification code there will work. Go to Application > Shared Components > Edit Security Attribute | Virtual Private Database (VPD), and make the call from there. Due to the specific requirements of the code that has to be called from here when used for security purposes, this is probably best done by setting this up to make 2 separate calls to packages defined outside APEX, one to handle security-related details and the other to orchestrate any other code that has to be run. (For example, in this case it may not be desired to alter the NLS environment on every page, so the program could take a parameter specifying the current page and apply the ALTER SESSION conditionally on this.)
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Interactive Report does not maintain / remain on current page

Fellow APEX gurus,
In my APEX application (APEX 4.0), I have an Interactive Report that displays rows of data and each row has an EDIT link which on clicking pops up a Form (Dynamic HTML Page) on top of the Interactive Report Report.
The problem is -- when on the Interactive Report page, when I navigate to next page of records (Page 2 or above), and EDIT a row on that page, the resulting Form pops up correctly on top of the Interactive Report, however, in the background, the Interactive Report navigates back to Page 1.
There is only one default branch on the Interactive Report page and I have "Save State before branching" checked.
How do I maintain the current Page and not allow APEX to navigate back to the First Page of the Interactive Report?
Thanks,
Ed

Mini,
I already had the Reset Pagination Unchecked. I did uncheck the "save state before branching" but the behavior was the same.
Once again, I have only one "Unconditional" Branch on this page with the following settings:
reset pagination for this page - unchecked
include process success message - checked
save state before branching - checked
Anything else to look for?
Thanks,
Ed.

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How to control the GO button in interactive report using dynamic action?
i have to press the GO button automatically using dynamic action when page item get focused.
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thanks and regard,
skud.

Hi skud,
Your dynamic action can capture the "Get Focus" event of your page item and then you could try creating a true action to submit the page with a specific request. Create a branch to a URL with the condition of request being equal to the one you specified before, and as target select URL and make use of the filtering of an IR by URL when linking. This is just an idea, hope you can get the result you need.
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Hello everyone
several hours of searching through the forum did not provide me with leads or answers to 2 questions. Both are related to the IR column heading menu and options. Let's start with a copy of the relevant portion of the interactive report help screen:
Column Heading Menu
Clicking on any column heading exposes a column heading menu.
[snip]
Text Area is used to enter case insensitive search criteria (no need for wild cards). Entering a value will reduce the list of values at the bottom of the menu. You can then select a value from the bottom and the selected value will be created as a filter using '=' (e.g. column = 'ABC'). Alternatively, you can click the flashlight icon and the entered value will be created as a filter with the 'LIKE' modifier (e.g. column LIKE '%ABC%').
List of Unique Values contains the first 500 unique values that meet your filters. If the column is a date, a list of date ranges is displayed instead. If you select a value, a filter will be created using '=' (e.g. column = 'ABC').
Q1: Why do I not see a flashlight icon? I looked everywhere in the report definition to "enable" it, to no avail.
Q2: Although we've found IRs to be incredibly useful and embraced by end users, we are having issues when dealing with large datasets. Let's look at searching for people's first/last name in our CONTACTS table. The table is ~28,000 names long. If one attempts to use Column Heading menu to "filter" for any name outside the first 500 unique values, the search does not work. Yes, I know that a workaround is to use Actions Menu icon filter... but, it sure is misleading to have a search which does not go beyond letter B in the list of last names. Furthermore, I do not see a way to DISABLE Column Heading Text Area, and avoid user confusion.
I suspect that "List of Unique Values contains the first 500 unique values" was set for the performance purposes. Is there a way to set that number anywhere? Have it customized for each column? (columns county and state could be <100, for example)
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Vojin

@Prabodh: what you say is only changing the default image for the column selector at the search bar level. What i think is being looked for is an icon on the popup when a column header is clicked in an IR. Don't bother: there is none.
@Vojin, Tonibony:
I also ran into this problem with IRs and the useless column header box. If you want to hide the unique values list, it is a bother. First of all, you can't disable the finding of values, this is embedded in the widget ajax code. Then if you want to just hide the list, there is no real event you can hook up to. The poping up of the box is an ajax callback, and is part of the IR javascript, but this callback does not trigger any event (no apexafterrefresh for example, which is understandable). I've worked around this by overriding/extending the method which is called when ajax is done loading within the IR code. Here is a piece of code which does this (call it on page load):
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   // yet extending it is to override the original function, yet
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   // the widget ajax
   var or_Finished_Loading = gReport._Finished_Loading;
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   };If you're interested, i've recently developed a plugin for use in my interactive reports which works around some of these limitations. For me, the headers are much more userfriendly than the actions > filter menu. So what i've done is: hide the orignal dropdown, and turn the searchfield into an autocompletion field, which will progressively search through the distinct column values in the IR with ajax. I've even made an option to have the searching behave like a "contains" or a "like". I'm working on a post about it, with background, documentation and source code. I'll add a post here when i finish it up, you can see if that helps you.
I also would like to add a button later on which will simply add the entered value as a "like %value%" filter. I know how to do this and what to do, i'm just a bit short on time at the moment. I actually think that adding the button in the layout may be the hardest part... :')

Help on print button for interactive report

Hi,
I have created an interactive report and have also added a print button on the button of the report (unfortunately forgot how I did it). Say my column on the reports was Col_No, Col_First_name, Col_Last_name and a print button when I pressed a would get to choose open or save a pdf file, if I opened or saved it, I would had the same info on my pdf report as above.
Since I have changed the column order meaning I have Col_No, Col_Last_name, Col_Start_Date, Col_First_name and that is working fine but when I click on the print button I will get the pervious columns.
I noticed I have created a branches to print the report, basically after processing, when button was pressed an action with f?p=&APP_ID.:0:&SESSION.:PRINT_REPORT=6259824360775969936:&DEBUG.::: is present.
I need help to fix this and I do very much appreciate any help or suggestions
-regards
ahmadii

Found the answer, thanks.

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