How to create a report and summarize some columns per page

Question

Hi all,
I need to create a HTML report using the OA Framework Extension and it needs summarize some values columns highlighted similar to what can be done when using Report6i. Is there some class or package or a region or page's parameter that permits me to do that?
I also thought to summarize the values and put them in a table with a column saying that the line is a simple value or a summary and just put those values in html table. My problem still how to hightlight the html table line when the value "summary" is being fetched.
Any suggestion????
Thanks in Advance!!!

Answer 1

Essentially you want to write a pl/sql function which returns a varchar2 string. The contents of the string must be a valid sql statement.
Once you have done this, you need to add a report region as type sql report and you will have the option of writing it as a query or as a function returning query. Choose function returning query and enter in the function call.
Note your function must be valid, and must be executable by your apex parsing schema.
example:
create or replace
function test_report(   p1_tablename       in varchar2)
return varchar2
is
v_query varchar2(4000);
begin
v_query  :=
'SELECT * from '||p_tablename;
return v_query;
end test_report;Edited by: Keith Jamieson on Aug 15, 2011 4:50 PM