DATE_POPUP

Question

When I use htmldb_item.date_popup in SQL report with an order by clause,
the data that I select to replace the current row goes to another row instead.
This does not happen if I remove the order by clause.
Has anyone encountered this ? How to work around it ?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and used this workaround:
Put the original query in a subquery where you do the order by and then build the date popup on the result set.
For example, if your original query is
SELECT field1,
              field2,
              apex_item.date_popup(1,date_field) "My Date"
FROM someTabel Order by field 1then try
SELECT /*+NO_MERGE(sub)*/
             subfield1,
              subfield2,
              apex_item.date_popup(1,subdate_field) "My Date"
FROM  (
       SELECT
           field1 subfield1,
           field2 subfield2,
           date_field subdate_field
        FROM someTabel Order by field1
          ) subThe NO_MERGE hint is needed to prevent the optimizer from merging your query and the subquery back into one query.
Regards
Stephan