Filtering interactive report question

Question

hi all,
i created an interactive report that uses a query like this..
SELECT i.issue_id "ID",
  i.title "TITLE",
  i.module "MODULE",
  u1.last_name || ', ' || u1.first_name || ' ' || SUBSTR(u1.middle_name,   1,   1) || '.' "OWNER",
  u2.last_name || ', ' || u2.first_name || ' ' || SUBSTR(u2.middle_name,   1,   1) || '.' "REPORTED BY",
  i.report_date "DATE REPORTED",
  u3.last_name || ', ' || u3.first_name || ' ' || SUBSTR(u3.middle_name,   1,   1) || '.' "SUBMITTER"
FROM issues i,
  users u1,
  users u2,
  users u3
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_idi created an application item called APP_USERID and added a process on the 101 page to select the userid into :APP_USERID from users_table where username = :app_user.
i want to create a default filter based on the current user's user_id. if i change my query like this
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_id
AND i.owner = :APP_USERIDit works fine but if i wanted to view all records not just owned by the current user, i will have a problem.
can anyone suggest an approach on how i can solve this.
thanks.
regards,
allen

Answer 1

Hi Allen,
I tried some different things in the Interactive reports (make a default with :ITEM or &ITEM.), but they didn't work.
The only why I can think of now how to get it work is by adding in your query a DECODE or NVL
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_id
AND i.owner = NVL(:APP_USERID,i.owner)
Basically what it does, if the value of :APP_USERID is set it will use that, if that value is null it will return all records. So you would have a process or computation that sets the item APP_USERID to null when you hit something to get all records.
Regards,
Dimitri
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