Enhancement request: Buttons in report regions

Buttons in Report regions (usually) operate upon the data shown in the report using form input elements like checkboxes, radiobuttons, etc.
When the report returns no rows, the buttons look silly in an empty report region. Clicking them might also do some harm depending on what the after-submit processes do.
IMHO it seems like a worthwhile enhancement for Apex to automatically suppress the rendering of the buttons if the report returns no data (it could piggyback upon the 'No Data Found' message under Report Attributes).
Thanks

Or maybe conditionally? I can think of a case where I get no data back and I want to do something with those buttons, such as "create a new record". I often use form input elements there as filters, so it's possible for our users to come up with a combination of filters that comes back with "no data found" and they need a way (mmmmmm, buttons) to reset the filters and get back to something meaningful.
But the ability to condition the buttons (and other stuff) based on whether or not the report returns data? That could be useful, especially for the situation you describe where clicking them might do harm. The ability to disable the buttons on "no data found" (while still displaying them) could also be nice. That way I could display the buttons and keep the same layout, but they wouldn't be clickable.

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Hi..
i want to add button on report region Named ad "Send E-mail"
that should be on each row
so how can i do??
Please Suggest Me
Thanks in advance

969091 wrote:
yes bt
m not gettingLet's say I have a sample classic report on the EMP table as:
select
empno,
ename,
sal,
hiredate
from emp
order by 1Now, I want to add a column "Send Email" to the report that will carry a link icon for every row. I modify the query as:
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ename,
sal,
hiredate,
'' as send_email
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order by 1Now, I can right-click the "send_email" column and select edit. In the "Column Link" region, I choose a link icon for the column and define target page/URL.
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Delete buttons in report region & javascript

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text <img src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#delete.gif" border="0" alt="Verwijderen Icon">
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Enhancement request for VAT Report of Customer and Vendor.

Hello SAP Gurus,
Have enhancement request for adding new fields in existing VAT report of Customer and Vendor like user id, GL account etc.
As I am fresher, can you please help me that how I need to approach. Thanks for your support.
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Hello Saleem,
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Enhancement request: Bulk edit features

As much as I love Apex and think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread (what's so great about sliced bread anyway!), after one gains a certain amount of proficiency with using the tool, one realizes that there are many areas where the Builder application simply gets in your way. You know exactly what you want to do, you know how to do it, but the Apex Builder doesn't support a "do this 20 times" feature!
For instance
1. Deleting multiple pages - This came up on another thread recently. The Builder makes you click 2 buttons (Delete and Confirm) to delete a page and then takes you to page 0 (or the previous page or something) and then you need to go back to the next page and repeat the process.
There should be a "delete multiple pages" feature in the Builder
2. Creating a list - I have a bunch of links/URLs that I would like to create a list from. The Builder interface (tabular form) has us add each list entry at a time.
I would prefer that it has a honking big textarea where I could dump all the links at once and it creates all the list entries at once. I could always go and tweak individual entries if I like.
Same thing for adding to other Shared components like LOVs, breadcrumbs, tabs, etc. I am not saying a textarea-based interface would work for everything, but anything has to be better than doing it one by one.
3. Access to the Report Column Attributes page - This is too painful to access.
Click on Edit page, click on Report, click on the column you want. 3 clicks!
Instead, there should be a Quick Edit link next to each report column when the page is run that pops up the same page.
4. Attaching a authorization scheme (or condition or build option or any applicable thing really) to a bunch of components at once.
The Builder should have a nifty search page where we could search/filter (by name, component type, page#, etc) for the components we want and then allow us to apply a an "action" (i.e. auth. scheme) to all the selected components at once. Doing this one by one is error-prone, time-consuming and just plain boring!
That's all that comes to mind at this time, I am sure others will have more.
Thanks

Mike: Thanks for responding.
1. You misunderstand what I wrote about report columns. Marc Sewtz understood what I meant at Re: Enhancement request: Quick edit links for column attributes
is very easy to bulk change (on the back end); the hard part is devising the proper screens for bulk change (font end)
2. Absolutely, agree 100%. Which is why it might make sense for Oracle to expose metadata manipulation APIs (apex_metadata package similar to dbms_metadata!) so that power users can effect changes to the application metadata without going through the Builder at all!
We talked about this at Bulk edit items
Many of the application reports allow for bulk change operations
Right, but realistically speaking, you can never anticipate and build screens for all the things we would like to do. Which is why a command-line API would be invaluable.
Just recently, I needed to change a bunch of HTML regions' templates in a application from Report Region to Hide/Show template. I couldn't find an application report/bulk edit page that let me do this, it was quite painful to do in the Builder.
Another case in point: I used the "Form on SQL Query" wizard to quickly create a form page with a bunch of fields. But unfortunately, unlike the "Form on Table wizard", this wizard is not smart enough to create page items with a display-as depending on the datatype of the columns in the query. It creates all the form items as Text Fields. :-( There is no bulk-edit page (that I could find) that lets me change the display-as property for multiple items.
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3. As you may know, whenever I think of something that the Apex product could benefit from (an enhancement request IMHO), I post a thread on the forum with a subject line that clearly indicates as such.
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Export for all rows of a Report Region

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I have a html region with a query button to restrict which rows get selected in a reports region below it.
But I also want to have a link to export all rows in the report to a csv file. Button the report region may already
have selected data in it that is not necessarily all rows in the report. Thus I guess I am wondering if I should
create a whole separate hidden report region that will always select all rows in the query to relate the
export link to? Or if I can someone use the current report region and select all rows for the export but
not requery or change the currently displayed report regions results?
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Placing buttons in a region displaying an Interactive Report

Hi,
I have a page on which I am displaying an interactive report.I would like to place buttons on this region where the report is displayed-
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- The third (exactly ) below the second button (still right of the search bar)
I am aware that if this where an HTML region,then I would have had the flexibility to place the third button in a new line without a problem,but can I achieve this in a region displaying an interactive report?
Is there any way to do this?
Regards,
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Create the buttons as region buttons in the IR region, with the following properties:
Button Position: Right of Interactive Report Search Bar
Button Alignment: Left Right
Enter *style="display: block; float: right;"* in the Button Attributes of the third button.
Edited by: fac586 on Nov 11, 2008 8:04 AM
Changed to fix slight layout glitch in Firefox 2.
Edited by: fac586 on Nov 11, 2008 9:06 AM
Changed back as the slight glitch in FF2 is preferable to not working in FF3 and Safari

Add buttons in download region (Report Interactive)

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Problems arranging button vertically under a report region

Hi All
I am currently developing an Oracle APEX UI but I’m having difficulty with the arrangement of buttons in the UI.
What I want to achieve is, to arrange 3 buttons vertically, below an Interactive Report Region which is displayed the page,. I want to arrange these buttons on the right hand side below the report region so the right hand edge of the buttons are aligned with the right hand edge of the report region.
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Hello Austin
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Good stuff.
Simon
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Center the buttons in the reports region

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Moved CREATE and CREATE2 tags to extra rows in the BODY table.
Worked great!
[td class="t2ButtonHolder" valign="bottom" >#CLOSE# #PREVIOUS##NEXT##DELETE##EDIT##CHANGE##EXPAND##COPY##HELP#[/td>
[/tr>
[tr>[td align="left" valign="bottom">#CREATE#[/td>[td align="left" valign="bottom">#CREATE2#[/td>
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[/tr>
[tr>[td align="left" valign="bottom">#CREATE#[/td>[td align="left" valign="bottom">#CREATE2#[/td>
[/tr>
[tr>

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Hiding Report Region on button pressed

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Hi,
Change your current report region tempalte with 'hide and show region template'.
In apex inbuild template for implementing show and hide region type of report.
Go to the edit page option and in user interface chage your current report region tempalte with the 'hide and show region template'.
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Edited by: rajendra on Feb 26, 2012 4:36 AM

Can we have one submit button for mutliple report regions querying same tbl

Hello,
I have a normal multiple report regions in a page with some editable in those regions, these report regions are querying the same table. Now, Is it possible to have one submit button for all the report regions to update the underlying table data?
Can anyone please help me out with this one.
thanks,
Orton

First you'll almost certainly need to roll your own - the built-in stuff is fairly basic and more than likely won't help.
It sounds like your process flow should be something like:
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insert into table
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Button Enhancement Request

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Enhancement Req (v4.0): Report Query- Output Format- Derive from Item

Brief Introduction
I have 1 major request I would like to make (and 2 lesser ones). The first, I would like to specify custom available output formats for 'Report Query' objects, as well as Reports Regions, Interactive Reports, etc. I believe that this could easily be an instance setting in the Report Server region of the internal workspace, or per workspace / application. Even if not supported on the system wide level, I would recommend that the "Derived from Item" output format "Return Value" be allowed to be returned unaltered to the Report Server. I know that the type is returned as "_xf", and for my purposes I would REALLY like to be able to get something other than the defaults.
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Broken
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Additional Info
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https://apex.vendelinc.com/apex/f?p=home

Hi, please did you get any solution to this issue? I am having similar challenge right now.
select     EMP.DEPTNO as DEPTNO,
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     EMP.MGR as MGR,
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from     SCOTT.DEPT DEPT,
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where EMP.DEPTNO=DEPT.DEPTNO
and      DEPT.DNAME =upper(:dname)
This run perfectly in sql developer, toad, and even inside publisher if I login directly to publisher to create report.
Generating this same query in shared component query builder and testing it returns no data found. If I remove the last line, it works. but with the last line, it return no data found. It seems no one has been able to provide solution to this issue

Enhancement request: Buttons in report regions

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