Conditional Display of Interactive Report Based on Field Above

Question

Page one has simple text box entry for a Vendor # with a button that branches to a page displaying information for that vendor. In a region below, I would like an interactive report that displays all of the item and description that vendor provides to our company. I have tried to use the Conditional Display to disply only items in the report but have been unsuccessful. Your help is appreciated!
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello user2961006 (please tell us your name),
I understand your question to be, "how do I make a report on page two only show rows related to an item entered on page one". Putting a condition on a region isn't the answer here - you want the report to always display, but just with different rows depending on the vendor number entered. A condition on a region is used to either display the region or not.
What you need to do is put a WHERE clause on the SELECT statement that your report is using to get its data. For example, if the item holding the entered vendor number is P1_VENDOR_NUM, the SELECT statement for your report would look something like:
SELECT item, description
  FROM my_items
WHERE vendor_num = :P1_VENDOR_NUMNote my_items is a fictitious name. This will tell the DB to only retrieve rows where the vendor number is the vendor number entered by the user.
Hope this helps, I'll gladly accept reward points if it does ;-)
John