How to run drill down reports

Question

now i am using 9ids
Before dev 2.1 was used.
now before we had provision to run drill reports
by putting a button on report
and using
srw.run_report(); procedure ,in button action trigger.
now in 9i what i observed there is no object button in reports.
button has changed to text item and there is no such action trigger.
how to run the report
as reports are run from form by using
web.show_document
pls suggest.

Answer 1

Hi Rajendra,
Again prasanth here, As u said, there is no more push button in 9i and 10g, ok. so u can drill down reports by using hyperliks which is only way(according to me). some may suggest to include JSP buttons. But u can simply place any text item like 'click here to run report' and in the property inspector(i.e.property pallette) set the hyper link property with the desination of your file. It may be a weblink or may be local file path.
example
hyperlink: www.oracle.com/..or
c:\temp\test.rdf
or u can write a trigger for that text item:
1)right clik the text item
2)goto pl/sql editor
3)put the code
a varchar(30);
begin
a:=srw_run_report('<the report link you want')
return(a);
but before doing this make sure that the item type of tha t text item property should be pl/sql(this can be set in property pallete of that text item)
I think this help you,
Thanks and Regards
Prasanth A.S.