Can you create an item validation that's an "Alert" to the user?

I have a report of Personal Facts that includes a birth date and anniversary date. These dates display on the report as DD-MON-YYYY. I would like to 'alert' the user with a message (e.g. Today is this Customer's birthday) when today's date equals the birth date (montha and day or anniversary date. Is the only way to create this 'alert' to create a Page Validation for the column (item) BIRTH_DATE like this:
to_char(trunc(P4_BIRTH_DATE),'MMDD') = to_char(trunc(sysdate),'MMDD')
I've tried this but it doesn't work.

Doing it this way, how about creating a HTML region to hold your Alert message?
The html region is based on a condition that: to_char(trunc( :P4_BIRTH_DATE),'MMDD') = to_char(trunc(sysdate),'MMDD').
Probably the reason you are not seeing the value in debug is because you are using a report region. You cannot see the values of indivdual rows/columns for report regions in the debug.
Actually, having said that, that is were your problem is at. For a report, your item is not :P4_BIRTH_DATE, but instead something like f05 (the number changes depending on where it's at, column-wise).
The only way to reference it is with htmldb_application.g_f05 (or whatever the number is). But, with this referencing, your best bet would probably be to manually create your report with the htmldb_item syntax. And, if your going to that level of effort, you maight as well attach a javascript call to the BIRTH_DATE field that displays an alert box, though if you are unfamilar with javascript, the conditional HTML region approach should almost work as well, though I'd add another field for the person's identifier (name?), so when it appeared, you would know which user had a birthday, since report regions are usually used to retreive multiple records.
Or, another approach would be to create a psudo-column through a view that populates the alert field if the condition matches, otherwise it contains a null, then base your report on the view.
Hope this helps some.
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