How to integrate conditional colors to the Report

Question

<!--Hi all APEX gurus,
I would like to ask if you could help me with the problem how to integrate conditional COLORS to the Report. I need to display Severity field in RED but how to include the multiple "quotation marks" and 'apostrophs' to the query below?
I need to replace i."Severity" field in the query below with the DECODE like this:
DECODE (i."Severity", 1, '<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">' || i."Severity" || '</span>', i."Severity") "Severity"
Original Query:
DECLARE
q varchar2(4000);
BEGIN
q := ' select ';
q := q || ' i."ID" "ID", ';
q := q || ' i."Task_ID" "Task ID", ';
q := q || ' i."Severity" "Severity", ';
q := q || ' i."Priority" "Priority", ';
q := q || ' i."Task" "Task Name", ';
q := q || ' p."Project_Name" "Project" ';
q := q || ' from ';
q := q || ' "IDEAS" i, ';
q := q || ' "PROJECT_LOOKUP" p ';
q := q || ' where ';
q := q || ' p."Project_ID" = i."Project_ID" ';
if :P1_Show != 'ALL' then
q := q || ' and i."Project_ID" = :P1_Show';
end if;
RETURN q;
END;
I have tried many variants but still have problem with the " " and ' ' included in the DECODE command together with the q-variable.
Thank you for any tips and
Happy New Year!
AB
-->

Answer 1

Hi user487406,
What about a select like this:
select i.id,
       i.task_id,
       case i.severity
         when 1 then '&#60;span style="color:red;font-weight:bold"&#62;' || i.severity || '&#60;/span&#62;'
       else
         to_char(i.severity)
       end severity,
       i.priority,
       i.task,
       p.project_name
  from ideas i,
       project_lookup p
where p.project_id = i.project_id;
And PL/SQL like this:
q :=
' select i.id, ' ||
'        i.task_id, ' ||
'        case i.severity ' ||
'          when 1 then ''&#60;span style="color:red;font-weight:bold"&#62;'' || i.severity || ''&#60;/span&#62;'' ' ||
'          else ' ||
'            to_char(i.severity) ' ||
'        end severity, ' ||
'        i.priority, ' ||
'        i.task, ' ||
'        p.project_name ' ||
'   from ideas i, ' ||
'        project_lookup p ' ||
'  where p.project_id = i.project_id; '; Regards Pete