Downloading Interactive Reports

Anyone know the best way to do the interactive report download.
The *.CSV file is putting blank spaces for every character that is blank as in the row has a max char limit of 100, so thats alot of wasted space and messing around with rows to get rid of empty characters.
Yet my tables set to varchar. Basically i want to be able to export this into a word doc without too much of a haste and screwing around.

I don't have an answer (other than intercepting the download and writing my own custom handler...ugh!). I just wanted to chime in and say that, I, too, think this is an issue. You should be able to specify, at the column level, what is and isn't available for download. This is provide for Hide, Sort, Filter etc...why not for download???
This causes more problems when considered in light of another APEX (in my opinion) Bug. When you mark a column as Hidden, it isn't "hidden", i.e. display=none. Rather, it is not sent at all to the page. There are case all of the time wherein one does not wish to display the column but, nonetheless, it is needed to perform some other processing, e.g. conditional logic, pass to linked pages, etc. In these cases, you have to use jQuery (or JavaScript) to hide them. Stinks. Moreover, even though they truly+ are hidden after this change, they are included in the download.
-Joe

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Selecting columns when downloading interactive reports

Hello,
We have a requirement set by Oracle's Corporate Security Architecture Review Board to prevent some columns from displaying when downloading interactive reports to csv format. They should display on the report but not on the csv output.
I vaguely recall that this was possible when interactive reports were first released but I can't find a way to do it in ApEx 4.1? When I go to Print Attributes > Report Columns, I can see the list of columns and they are all set to Show in report = Yes but there is no way to set it to No. It seems that all the columns selected to display on the Interactive Report are automatically included in the Download.
Our applications are hosted on apex.oraclecorp.com, I can provide further details if required.
Thank you for advising if there is a way of excluding columns when downloading.
Kind regards,
Isabelle Fallon

I don't have an answer (other than intercepting the download and writing my own custom handler...ugh!). I just wanted to chime in and say that, I, too, think this is an issue. You should be able to specify, at the column level, what is and isn't available for download. This is provide for Hide, Sort, Filter etc...why not for download???
This causes more problems when considered in light of another APEX (in my opinion) Bug. When you mark a column as Hidden, it isn't "hidden", i.e. display=none. Rather, it is not sent at all to the page. There are case all of the time wherein one does not wish to display the column but, nonetheless, it is needed to perform some other processing, e.g. conditional logic, pass to linked pages, etc. In these cases, you have to use jQuery (or JavaScript) to hide them. Stinks. Moreover, even though they truly+ are hidden after this change, they are included in the download.
-Joe

Urgent!! Download Interactive report in HTML as it is

I have an interactive report where i have highlighted rows and colums based on some conditions.But when i download the same report in html, all the highlighted format are gone.I mean all the colours are gone.I want the same format in html too.so how is this possible.

Hi,
this is not so easy. Read it yourself:
http://www.apexninjas.com/blog/f?p=100:1:0::::P1_ARTICLE:1920
http://www.talkapex.com/2009/04/custom-download-for-apex-interactive.html
Best regards,
Tobias

Download Interactive Report fails with ORA-06502

I am using:-
Apex version 4.2.1.00.08
Oracle DB 11.2
Apex Listener
I.E. 8
I have created an interactive report and when I download the report to CSV I get ORA-06502. My report contains over 100 columns some of which are blobs so I am hitting the old 32k limit. Does anyone have a work round for this problem. The ability to download data is a key feature of my application and this really is a show stopper form me.
Regards...

The queries are not executed in parallel but in serial. So the total execution time configured will be for all the Select statements in the report combined.
As for your second question, since the execution is not parallel hence BO will not initiate any error message until the total execution time exceeds the defined limit. This could be during the execution of first select statement or the second.
Try executing the queries directly in database one by one and see how much time they are taking.
- Noman Jaffery

Downloading interactive report to CSV

Hi There,
We are on apex 3.1.2.00.02. I have two questions...
1. The interactive reports have a - (dash) in the columns with null. So when we download to excel the dash is still there... the user wants null. I can not find where it's been defined to put this dash in the report. Can someone help me figure out how to make this truly null?
2. When we download the report in a csv format, it automatically opens in Excel (which we want); the tab name in Excel is something like... .csv]daily_bank_definition(1) If we try to rename the tab we get an Excel error about invalid naming format even if the new name is "valid". Is there a way to have the tabname set to what you want? Has anyone else seen this issue and have you been able to get around it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Kristina

Hi Kristina,
To remove the dash from null columns you need to go into the Report Attributes and under Pagination you will see 'Show Null Values as '. Just remove the - from there.
In order to change the tab name to what you want you will have to save the csv file first and remove the [1] from the name. You should then be able to change it.
Regards
Paul

Download Interactive Report data does not match on-screen data

Hi,
I have a page which has a process which runs a query and returns a random % of rows from a table, and saves this into a collection.
Then, based on the random rows, I want to select data from another table, where the rows match certain columns in the collection.
I have created a query to select the data I want, and have it displayed in an Interactive Report region.
The data on the screen is fine, but when I go to 'Dowload' the data to csv or excel from the Interactive report, the data is different.
I have also created a normal report region with the same query, and when I download it from here, it works fine, so I know it has nothing to do with the query.
Any ideas?
Amanda.
The process details are:
Process Point: On Load - Before Regions
Run Process: Once per page visit
Then in the Interactive report query is something like:
Select ..
from
DATA_TABLE c
select
c001 User_Id,
c002 Account_No,
c003 Transaction_Date
from htmldb_collections where collection_name='PX_COLLECTION'
*) d*
where
c.user_id = d.user_id AND
c.account_no = d.account_no AND
c.transaction_date = d.transaction_date

Hi,
This is because of web caching. You should invalidate the page caching in the access tab of page properties or you just change the page url with a dummy paramater like this
http://domain/portal/page?_pageid=6,1,6_11&_dad=<dad>&_schema=<schema>&1=1
Here &1=1 is a dummy parameter
This will invalidate the cache and the page will be refreshed.
Thanks,
Sharmila

Download Interactive Reports to Spreadsheet - Aggregation rows?

Is there any way to use the Interactive Report download formats (either XLS or CSV) so that the spreadsheet includes the aggregation rows (SUM, AVERAGE) for each control break displayed on the screen.
I am on 3.1.0.00.32 (soon we will be at 4.1).
When we create a customized report using the interactive tools, it only downloads the data, and not the sum rows.

bhenderson wrote:
Is there any way to use the Interactive Report download formats (either XLS or CSV) so that the spreadsheet includes the aggregation rows (SUM, AVERAGE) for each control break displayed on the screen.
I am on 3.1.0.00.32 (soon we will be at 4.1).
When we create a customized report using the interactive tools, it only downloads the data, and not the sum rows.A workaround would be to use SQL to provide the aggregation rows. The ROLLUP, CUBE and GROUPING SETS (my favourite) group functions are especially build for such a task.
Here is an example in the docs: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088/statements_10002.htm#i2091446

Interactive Reports Download In Colour format in html and csv

Hi All I want to download interactive report in colour format(as it is format) in html and csv using apex 4.0.2
Regards
Robert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
A comma-separated values (CSV) file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain-text form. As a result, such a file is easily human-readable (e.g., in a text editor).re: colours of html output
interestingly, there are settings in print attributes, but they have no bearing on the output... obviously nothing to do with the html output. Probably best bet is BI Publisher, where you can define your own report templates.

Interactive report download in PDF - getting an error message

Hi,
while using default feature to download interactive report in PDF format, I am getting following error:
Adobe Reader could not open 'filename.pdf'because it is either not a supported file type or because the file as been damaged ( for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded
please advice
Thanks

Hi,
Adobe Reader could not open 'filename.pdf'because it is either not a supported file type or because the file as been damaged ( for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decodedWhen I get this error, I rename the downloaded PDF file to TXT to look into it. Usually there is a human-readable error message in there generated by the web server, Apex or any other party involved in its generation...
But, as pointed out, have you set up Apex to generate PDFs?
Luis

Download/print problems with Interactive Reports on 10g

Running APEX 3.1.1.00.9 on Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production with BI Publisher
When downloading Interactive report using xls/rtf - no data is shown, pdf - corrupted file error is shown. This seems to only happen with row counts over 20. Same tables with less rows populates fine with all file types.
This problem does not exist using the APEX.oracle.com site, same tables. Is this due to the DB version?

For addional info, I'm putting down major steps that I followed so that it can be confirmed for any missing links. Sorry for a little bigger post
1) $ORACLE_HOME\bin\rwserver.exe -install myRepSrv
2) Created a report in the reports builder, saved as .rdf
3) In Forms builder, attached the report as a new report object.
4) In a procedure to call the report, following code is written
----------8<---------------
repid := find_report_object('testreport');
set_Report_object_property(repid,report_filename,'testreport');
set_report_object_property(repid,report_COMM_MODE,synchronous);
set_report_object_property(repid,report_server,'myRepSrv');
v_rep_jobid := RUN_REPORT_OBJECT(repid);
v_rep_stat := report_object_status(v_rep_jobid);
IF v_rep_stat = 'FINISHED' THEN
web.show_document('/reports/rwservlet/getjobid'||substr(v_rep,length('myRepSrv')+2,LENGTH(V_REP))||'?server=myrepsrv','_blank');
else
message (v_rep_stat||'- Report output aborted '||sqlerrm);
END IF;
----------8<---------------
5) Compiled the form and placed the form binary in approprite folder
6) modified $ORACLE_HOME\reports\conf\myRepSrv.conf. Changed the property of engine tag(sourceDir) to correctly point to the appropriate directory where the report has been saved
7) modified rwservlet.properties to turn off SSO
8) Started the external reports service with modified values
9) Invoked the form to launch the report
Please also note that if I invoke directly web.show_document and paste the hardcoded path, as can be expected, my work is done. But as can be agreed, this is not a very good approach.
Thanks and regards,
Kinjal Sonpal

Interactive reporting studio

Hi all,
Where can I get the setup files for downloading Interactive reporting studio 9.3.1 for Windows 32 bit platform?
Is that available in Oracle's Edelivery?
Edited by: user12973893 on May 10, 2010 12:55 AM

Hi user;
Its avaliable on e-delivery.Pelase check:
Hyperion Performance Management and BI (9.3.1) Media Pack for Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
http://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=9455004
Regard
Helios

APEX 4.0: error while opening a XLS file downloaded from interactive report

Hi,
I'm getting below error while opening a XLS file downloaded from an interactive report (APEX 4.0).
"The file you trying to open, 'customer_2.xls', is in a different format than specified by the file extension.
Verify that the is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening file. Do you want to open file."
Yes No Help
May be this one Apex 4.0 issue.
please help me.
Thanks
Mukesh

Hi,
is the next part of the code correct.
What i mean is packing of the attachment, finding out the size of pdf file and doc type as PDF.
You can also try below link..
Link: [http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/SENDALVGRIDASPDFATTACHMENTTOSAPINBOXUSINGCLASSES]
Hope this helps.
Regards,
-Sandeep

Is possible to save the user that uses the download action in an interactive report.

Hi,
In my application I want to save who is downloading the interactive reports information in any format, is it possible?
Regards

Hi Eva,
As far as I know there is not an out of the box option that shows you the user that is downloading the interactive report. I guess you would have to write your own logic for that.
You can create your own logging table and a dynamic action with
1) a pl/sql procedure to insert the logging into the table, and
2) submits the page with the appropriate download format, eg. f?p=&APP_ID.:&APP_PAGE_ID.:&SESSION_ID.:CSV::::
As trigger of the dynamic action you need to use either of the download buttons, so I'd suggest the jQuery selector "#apexir_dl*"
Kind regards,
Vincent

Error opening PDF downloaded from Interactive Report

hi -- I'm getting an error opening a PDF file downloaded from an interactive report.
I've seen on the forum that this could be related to the size of the file, but I've tried
this out on 10-row results (1k files) and it's still an issue.
I save the file to my file system. If I try to open it in Adobe Reader, I get:
File does not begin with '%PDF-'
and
Adobe Reader could not open <filename>.pdf because it is either not a supported
file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email
attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).
If I try to open in Internet Explorer, I get:
File does not begin with '%PDF-'
Other users are having the same problem. Download to csv and open in Excel works fine.
Do I need to have special print attributes for this? I didn't think so... I'm just using the defaults
(response header = report settings, content disposition = attachment).
Ideas?
Thanks,
Carol

Hi,
I'm having the same problem that was described above, and my site does have BI Publisher installed, and it does successfully produce readable pdfs for many reports.
But there are other reports, even reports produced using the Apex Wizard and all defaults, that just keep producing the same Adobe Reader error reported above, ie
"Adobe Reader could not open <filename>.pdf because it is either not a supported
file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email
attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)."
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Peter

Download CSV-File from Interactive Report

Dear all,
I want to download a CSV-File from a Interactive report.
The content of the Rows in Excel:
Erste,"B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P"
IBC ->,"-","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14" [...]
How can I solve this problem?
Thanks for help.

Your CSV-File use "comma" as separator. But Excel think, that CSV-File separator is "semicolon".
Try to set "CSV Separator"=";" in section "Report Attributes" - "Download".

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