Download link to export several reports in a dashboard at once

Hello Gurus. When you create a dashboard with a report, the Refresh, Printer Friendly and Add to Briefing Book links are created automatically with icons on the bottom, left hand side of the dashboard. Is there a way to include the Download link as well? The idea is to have a link to export several reports to Excel at once. I already know how to add it for each report. Our dashboard has 6 reports and the user wants to export all 6 reports in one command. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

In short - No.
Asked many many many times, probably in the top 10 wish list.
If you manage to suss it out please share with everyone :-)

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Hi,
By implementing briefing book method you can achive it.
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ref:
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http://tipsonobiee.blogspot.com/2010/07/working-with-oracle-bi-briefing-books.html
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Taken from CR Help File:
"PDF format is a page-based format. The exported documents are intended for printing and redistribution. PDF format will export both layout and formatting in a manner that is consistent with how the report looks on the Preview tab. PDF format embeds the TrueType fonts that appear in the document. (Non-TrueType fonts are not supported.) This export format does not support Microsoft font-linking technologyu2014which is used to provide support for some extended character sets such as Chinese HKCS. Therefore, the fonts used in the report must contain all of the required glyphs. These URI types are supported for hyperlinks: "http:", "https:" and "mailto:".
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Hi All…Thanks in Advance
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Re: Problem providing download link for BLOB data in apex report

Hi Don,
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Problem providing download link for BLOB data in apex report
591953 Nov 19, 2008 1:55 PM (in response to 660436)
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Good morning,
Here is how I have solved this problem.
1. The select statement in the sql for the report should not include the BLOB column. I decided to select only 2 columns, the column that has the key and the column with the filename.
2. On the first column ( the primary key ) I put in the format statement that was simply DOWNLOAD:TABLENAME:BLOB_COLUMN:PRIMARY_KEY
This works. I believe that the Oracle error I was getting was because I was trying to apply this format statement to the actual BLOB column.
So, it appears that you can use any of the columns in the report to hold the DOWNLOAD format statement since in the format statement, you are defining the BLOB table, BLOB column and the primary key into that column.
Hope this helps,
Don.

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Problem providing download link for BLOB data in apex report

Hi,
I am trying to create a report on a table with BLOB data so that the report displays a "download" link for the BLOB data. I am trying to give users the ability to download files from a website.
I have been following the instructions in OBE "Defining and Viewing BLOB Data in Oracle Application Express 3.1".
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Siebel CRM Applications protected by Oracle Clusterware     Kelly.Tan     17-SEP-08 [datatype]
Oracle Grid: The Optimal Platform for Siebel Solutions Mark.MacDonald 17-SEP-08     [datatype]
Any ideas why I'm seeing the ORA_01403 when I specify the BLOB Download Format Mask?
Edited by: user716599 on Sep 18, 2008 12:31 AM

Good morning,
Here is how I have solved this problem.
1. The select statement in the sql for the report should not include the BLOB column. I decided to select only 2 columns, the column that has the key and the column with the filename.
2. On the first column ( the primary key ) I put in the format statement that was simply DOWNLOAD:TABLENAME:BLOB_COLUMN:PRIMARY_KEY
This works. I believe that the Oracle error I was getting was because I was trying to apply this format statement to the actual BLOB column.
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Hope this helps,
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######### Table Structure...
desc document_library
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DATE_ADDED NOT NULL DATE
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FILE_NAME VARCHAR2(100)
MIME_TYPE VARCHAR2(100)
DOC_NUMBER NUMBER
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Your end result on page 58 and the instructions in that document link don't seem to correlate. Regardless, I:
1) Copied page 58 to page 158 in your application.
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3) Changed your query to:
select "ROWID",
"DOC_ID",
"DATE_ADDED",
"USER_ID",
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"DOC_NUMBER"
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Joel

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