Group Object to Text

I have selected an object and then clicked the grouping buttons to group text with the object but when I move the object the text doesn't move. If I do the opposite, group object to text it moves together.
The need to have it the first way is that I'm trying to move the object and text together on the screen using a keyframe.

Don't know where this is going wrong, but it shouldn't be an issue whether your grouping is one way or another. Have you tried duplicating the effect from one track then moving it to the other?

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OEM error
This error while creating M.V. rep. group object
There is a table or view named SCOTT.EMP.
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2 DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MVIEW_REPOBJECT (
3 gname => 'SCOTT',
4 sname => 'KARTHIK',
5 oname => 'emp_mv',
6 type => 'SNAPSHOT',
7 min_communication => TRUE);
8 END;
9 /
BEGIN
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-23306: schema KARTHIK does not exist
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_ERROR", line 86
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_SNA_UTL", line 2840
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_SNA_UTL", line 773
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Please check the documentation at the link below
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14227/rarrcatpac.htm#i109228
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2       DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MASTER_REPGROUP(
3         gname => 'GROUPA',
4         qualifier => '',
5         group_comment => '');
6*   END;
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2       DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MASTER_REPOBJECT(
3         gname => 'GROUPA',
4         type => 'TABLE',
5         oname => 'EMP',
6         sname => 'SCOTT',
7         copy_rows => TRUE,
8         use_existing_object => TRUE);
9*   END;
10 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> BEGIN
2       DBMS_REPCAT.GENERATE_REPLICATION_SUPPORT(
3         sname => 'SCOTT',
4         oname => 'EMP',
5         type => 'TABLE',
6         min_communication => TRUE);
7    END;
8 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>execute DBMS_REPCAT.RESUME_MASTER_ACTIVITY(gname => 'GROUPA');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select status from dba_repgroup;
STATUS
NORMAL                                                                          Now let's create updateable materialized view at DB1. Before that I want to let you know that I created one sample in DB1 user named MYUSER. MVIEWADMIN is Materialized View administrator.
SQL>conn mviewadmin/****@DB1.world
Connected.
SQL>   BEGIN
2       DBMS_REFRESH.MAKE(
3         name => 'MVIEWADMIN.MV_REFRESH_GROUPA',
4         list => '',
5         next_date => SYSDATE,
6         interval => '/*1:Hr*/ sysdate + 1/24',
7         push_deferred_rpc => TRUE,
8         refresh_after_errors => TRUE,
9         parallelism => 1);
10    END;
11 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>   BEGIN
3       DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_SNAPSHOT_REPGROUP(
5         gname => 'GROUPA',
7         master => 'DB2.wolrd',
9         propagation_mode => 'ASYNCHRONOUS');
11    END;
12 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>conn myuser/*****@DB1.world
Connected.
SQL>CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW MYUSER.EMP_MV
2    REFRESH FAST
3    FOR UPDATE
4    AS SELECT EMPNO, ENAME, JOB, MGR, SAL, COMM, DEPTNO, HIREDATE
5*      FROM   [email protected];
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SQL>conn mviewadmin/******@DB1.world
Connected.
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2       DBMS_REFRESH.ADD(
3         name => 'MVIEWADMIN.MV_REFRESH_GROUPA',
4         list => 'MYUSER.EMP_MV',
5         lax => TRUE);
6    END;
7 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.And now lets run CREATE_MVIEW_REPOBJECT.
SQL>   BEGIN
2       DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MVIEW_REPOBJECT(
3         gname => 'GROUPA',
4         sname => 'MYUSER',
5         oname => 'EMP_MV',
6         type => 'SNAPSHOT',
7         min_communication => TRUE);
8    END;
9 /
BEGIN
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-23306: schema MYUSER does not exist
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_ERROR", line 86
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_SNA_UTL", line 2840
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_SNA_UTL", line 773
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_SNA_UTL", line 5570
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_SNA", line 82
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPCAT", line 1332
ORA-06512: at line 3 I reproduced exactly the same error message.
So the problem is clearly in the schema name that owns the materialized view.
Now lets see if what would happen if I create the MV under schema SCOTT which has the same name as the schema on DB2.world where the master table exists.
SQL>conn scott/****@DB1.world
Connected.
SQL>CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW SCOTT.EMP_MV
2    REFRESH FAST
3    FOR UPDATE
4    AS SELECT EMPNO, ENAME, JOB, MGR, SAL, COMM, DEPTNO, HIREDATE
5*      FROM   [email protected];
Materialized view created.
SQL>conn mviewadmin/******@DB1.world
Connected.
SQL> BEGIN
2       DBMS_REFRESH.ADD(
3         name => 'MVIEWADMIN.MV_REFRESH_GROUPA',
4         list => 'SCOTT.EMP_MV',
5         lax => TRUE);
6    END;
7 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.And now lets run CREATE_MVIEW_REPOBJECT.
SQL>   BEGIN
2       DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MVIEW_REPOBJECT(
3         gname => 'GROUPA',
4         sname => 'SCOTT',
5         oname => 'EMP_MV',
6         type => 'SNAPSHOT',
7         min_communication => TRUE);
8    END;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.As you can see everything works fine when the name of the schema owner of the MV at DB1.world is the same as the schema owner of the master table at DB2.world .
-- Mihajlo
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