Calling function in report region

Hi all
I have report with download link to call a procedure(DOWNLOAD_PROCEDURE) in database
Its not working can any one help me
select id id2,
       id del,
case when trim(file_status) = 'Complete' then
   htf.anchor('/pls/apex/DOWNLOAD_PROCEDURE?p_id='||"APEX_RPT_PARSE"."ID" ||'&p_type=test','<img src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#ed-item.gif" border="0" alt="Download File Created">')
else
'Processing'
end download,
       file_status,
       to_char((dbms_lob.getlength(OUTPUT_FILE2))/1024,'999,999,990.00') file_size,
                to_char(created_DATE,'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss am') START_DATE,
                 to_char(END_DATE,'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss am') END_DATE,
      FILE_TYPE
        from apex_table
where file_type = 'test'
order by id descwhen i click on link
I am getting following url
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/DOWNLOAD_PROCEDURE?p_id=29&p_type=test

Hi,
You could try explain bit more how it do not work and what you expect link URL be.
But I guess your problem is that you can not call procedures in URL on apex.oracle.com.
And I do not know is it allowed to do that in there even you make request for it.
Regards,
Jari
Edited by: jarola on Sep 12, 2010 12:54 PM
Edited by: jarola on Sep 12, 2010 1:02 PM
It seems you can call procures in URL on apex.oracle.com. Maybe you did just forgot grant execute permission ?

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simple_list__(8) := 'wpg_docload.%';
if ((owa_match.match_pattern(p_string =>
'f'
/* */,p_simple_pattern =>
simple_list__
,p_complex_pattern =>
complex_list__
,p_use_special_chars =>
false)))
then
rc__ := 2;
else
null;
null;
f(p=>:p);
if (wpg_docload.is_file_download) then
rc__ := 1;
wpg_docload.get_download_file(:doc_info);
null;
null;
null;
commit;
else
rc__ := 0;
null;
null;
null;
commit;
owa.get_page(:data__,:ndata__);
end if;
end if;
:rc__ := rc__;
end;
call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows
Parse 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
Execute 1 25.53 26.59 4492 20992 60 1
Fetch 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
total 1 25.53 26.59 4492 20992 60 1

SQL Report Region Refresh

Application Express 4.0.2.00.09
Oracle 11 XE
How do I setup a Dynamic Action to refresh my region every X number of seconds? I can refresh the region easy enough on events, but I can't seem to figure out the timing thing. Maybe I just need some sleep...
Austin

Joe -
Interestingly enough, I have not yet found a good way to alter the Report Region title with the last update time. I would think there is a way to do it, but I do not currenlty have that knowledge, nor the time to thoroughly investigate how to do it. I do have a bit to share about the mechanics of the refresh discussed earlier in this thread.
Consider this code, place in the footer of a SQL Report Region:
<script type="text/javascript">
This will place the date as a footer to the SQL report. The javascript will then refresh the report every two seconds. (or whatever timeframe you specify) Now, in my SQL for my report, I added an additional column that is the current time. My SQL would look something like:
SELECT foo,
bar,
to_char(sysdate, 'HH24:MI:SS') update_time
FROM dualThis SQL will show when the data was last fetched from the database, while the footer of the region shows the time when the region was loaded by the browser.
If you run the page with these, or similar, parameters, you will notice that the update_time column in the report changes with each refresh, however, the region footer does not change. This is because the script isn't called everytime the data is refreshed. This would indicate that using the methodology mentioned previously in this thread, the entire region is not refreshed but simply the dataset and the report itself. This would mean that you would have a quite difficult time updating the region title from the SQL code alone... I'm not saying it is impossible, I just don't know how to do it...
Having said that- I do have a work around.
Consider this as the region title:
<div id="MyUpdatedReport" ></div>Now consider this code in the region header:
<script type="text/javascript">
function getUpdatedDate() {
var d = new Date();
document.getElementById('MyUpdatedReport').innerHTML="Region Title - Last Updated: " + d;
t=setTimeout('getUpdatedDate()',2000);
</script>And this in the region footer:
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>We create a DIV tag as our header. Then we have a function in the header that updates our div tag every two seconds. In the footer, we tell APEX to refresh the data every two seconds, and we tell our function to begin working. Effectively, you have a timestamp indicating when, theoretically, the data should have been refreshed. Now, this timestamp in the Region Title is NOT the true update time, but, theoretically it should be close. You should probably test this to see if you want to use it. Personally, I don't like this solution and I don't think I would ever implement it in any sort of production application. However, in an application that is just for me, I might hack something like this up.
The key part of this work around would be to keep your times synchronized. It would be of no benefit if APEX was refreshing the data every 60 seconds but the title was refreshing every 6 seconds. Yikes, that could confuse a few people.
I hope this has been a help.
Austin

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