Interactive report "group by" endsum is only a page-sum!

Interactive report "group by" endsum (total for a numeric column) is only the sum of the values of the last page! Is this a bug?
You can test on the page: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=1949:1 User/password = apex/apex
You see a sample - as png picture - on the page: http://progkor.inf.elte.hu/a/GroupByEndSum.png
Albert

john2013 wrote:
Anybody installed the latest APEX? i believe it's 4.2.3.
You can find out for yourself by requesting a workspace on apex.oracle.com, which always runs the latest production release.
Could you please tell me
is the limitation for interactive report "group by" action increased? (3 columns max for my 4.2 version)
No. Patch releases like 4.2.3 are never likely to include significant changes in functionality. They only provide bug fixes.
I consider this is a major drawback...
Interactive reports follow the 80/20 rule. They satisfy 80% of the requirements of 80% of users 80% of the time. If your requirements fall into any of the remaining 20% categories then you have to build something yourself. APEX is a development tool after all...

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Interactive report Group By functions support Number

Dear All,
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MAny thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Zahra

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Anybody installed the latest APEX? i believe it's 4.2.3.
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Interactive Report "Group By" Limitation

Hi,
Anybody installed the latest APEX? i believe it's 4.2.3.
Could you please tell me
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I consider this is a major drawback...
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john2013 wrote:
Anybody installed the latest APEX? i believe it's 4.2.3.
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I consider this is a major drawback...
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Interactive reports grouping issue.

Hi
I have a few interactive reports.
I need to be able to remove the GROUP BY clause on any field when that field is removed from view by using the Select Fields feature in interactive reports.
How can this be achieved?
Regards
Adam

Hi!
This is not possible with CRM interactive reporting unless you assign every employee to a manager role in the CRM Org Model (which would contradict it's purpose). Unfortunately, your request would contradict the central authorization principle behind interactive reporting.
Due to this fact and because the expected data volume would also probably be too large to be handled by interactive reporting, I recommend to use BW reporting instead. BW is much better designed for large data volumes, and you do not have the Org Model restrictions as in interactive reporting.

Interactive Reports - group by in SQL - download reports doesn't work

Hi,
I have the following SQL as the region source of an interactive report.
select SERVICELEVEL, SUM(CONTRACTVALUE), SUM(DOLLARVALUE), count(SERVICELEVEL) from "ACSPROD"."CONTRACT" where CONTRACTSTATUS='Active' group by SERVICELEVEL
The report shows exactly as expected. I have also integrated BI Publisher 10.1.3.4.1 with APEX 3.2.0.00.27
Problem 1
The report download doesn't work for any of the formats (CVS/XLS/PDF/RTF). When I rewrite the SQL without the group by clause (not the wanted results), then the report downloads work.
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Problem 2
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Hi Pratadamski ,
I could reproduce this issue at my end. This is a bug. So, I have filed on your behalf (6432429).
When i use tables ( not views) directly in my SQL and use column alias for computed column, it does work fine!
i.e., this query is good with databinding at designtime and runtime:
SELECT ALL trip.PersonID,
COUNT(*) AS Num_Trips
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GROUP BY trip.PersonIDThanks & Appreciate your feedback,
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Interactive Report does not maintain / remain on current page

Fellow APEX gurus,
In my APEX application (APEX 4.0), I have an Interactive Report that displays rows of data and each row has an EDIT link which on clicking pops up a Form (Dynamic HTML Page) on top of the Interactive Report Report.
The problem is -- when on the Interactive Report page, when I navigate to next page of records (Page 2 or above), and EDIT a row on that page, the resulting Form pops up correctly on top of the Interactive Report, however, in the background, the Interactive Report navigates back to Page 1.
There is only one default branch on the Interactive Report page and I have "Save State before branching" checked.
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Mini,
I already had the Reset Pagination Unchecked. I did uncheck the "save state before branching" but the behavior was the same.
Once again, I have only one "Unconditional" Branch on this page with the following settings:
reset pagination for this page - unchecked
include process success message - checked
save state before branching - checked
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Ed.

Public / Sharing of Interactive Reports

The new Interactive Reports are a great feature that will be extremely helpful for both our development team and our users. However, currently when a user saves an interactive report, there's no way to share it with other users or to make it a public report that can be viewed by everyone. This is because the report is saved with the user's name and can only be viewed by that particular user. This really limits the usefulness of the interactive reports. For example, we would like to enable our power users, administrative users, and even regular end users to be able to create and modify reports and share them with others. In addition, our company has several hundred Crystal reports that we would like to replace with interactive reports. However, if our development team creates all of these as interactive reports (using the “Save Report” feature, not as separate pages), there is no way to make them public so that all of our users can then access them. I've read several requests in this forum for this type of enhancement. I've also read that the apex team intends to implement this sharing feature soon. In the meantime, I've figured out a work-around. This work-around saves and retrieves all interactive reports using a generic, fictitious user name. Using the Page Sentry Function under the Authentication Scheme, we switch the APP_USER to a generic, fictitious user only for the interactive report pages, and set APP_USER back to the original, correct user on the other pages. Here's the code I'm using in the Page Sentry function:
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c owa_cookie.cookie;
begin
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APEX_CUSTOM_AUTH.SET_USER('REPORT_USER');
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c := owa_cookie.get('LOGIN_USERNAME_COOKIE');
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end if;
return true;
end;
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I tried using the SET_USER code within a page process (PL/SQL anonymous block), and although it changed the APP_USER, it did not affect the interactive report. I assume this is because the interactive report “does its thing” prior to the firing of the processes on a page. However, the Page Sentry function apparently fires earlier in the sequence (before the interactive report processing).
This will make the interactive reports much more useful for our company and I hope it will be useful to some of you as well.
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Scott-
Thanks for the feedback. I tried both the Session Verification Function and the VPD attribute and neither one accomplished the goal. The VPD attribute PL/SQL code apparently fires too late in the process, so although it changed the APP_USER, it had no affect on the interactive report. And the Session Verification Function had adverse affects on the authentication. So rather than mess around with the security settings in the application, I came up with a different work-around.
Here's the new work-around.
On the interactive report page I created a page process (PL/SQL anonymous block) and set the process point to "On Load - Before Header". For the process I entered the following pl/sql code:
begin
update FLOWS_030100.WWV_FLOW_WORKSHEET_RPTS
set APPLICATION_USER = :APP_USER
where ID = :REPORTID
and session_id is null;
end;
This code changes the application user in the underlying interactive report table. It sets the user to the current APP_USER only for the report being viewed. Therefore, when the interactive report processing happens, it thinks the report is for the current APP_USER and renders the report just fine. It also saves any changes to the report back to the base report so other users can view the modifications as well.
I have the tab feature turned off on my interactive reports. Instead I have another page that lists all the interactive reports. When a user clicks one of the reports in the list, I set the REPORTID variable and pull up the corresponding interactive report (that's why I'm using REPORTID in the where clause). For users that are using a tabbed approach, they may have to set the application user for all of the base reports (or figure out another way to determine which individual report tab is being viewed). If they were setting it for all the base reports, it would look like this:
begin
update FLOWS_030100.WWV_FLOW_WORKSHEET_RPTS
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This solution isn't ideal when lots of users are hitting the same interactive report. It's possible that if two user attempt to load the same interactive report at the same time, the following might happen.
1. User A triggers process to update underlying table
2. User B triggers process to update underlying table
3. User A triggers process to run interactive report (and therefore does not see the report because the report is now set to User B)
4. User B triggers process to run interactive report (and sees report just fine)
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Conditional Link on Interactive Report

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Hi -
It really bugs me this forum has such a problem with code examples, so for a while at least I posted quick example on Google:
[Conditional Column|http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd2tkvv6_212dbzw2ftq]
Not to complicate too much, but if you wanted to not have empty column except one row, you could of course apply this trick to the column that actually holds the user name in your table... in other words, the user could click right on their own name to go to edit screen, but every other user name but theirs would not be a hyperlink. But that is as they say an exercise for the reader :)
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Number of rows displayed per page in an interactive report

Hi,
I'd like to know if it's possible to change the values of the select list called 'Rows' in an interactive report (which is displayed in the search bar).
Indeed, I want to display 16 rows per page and I can only choose among the values 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50, 100, 200...
Thank you for your reply.
Emilie.

Hi Tobias,
Thank you for your help.
I had already tried this but it's not what I want. What your are saying only limits the values in the select list (for example, if I set to 16, I can't choose values higher than 16 in the select list 'Rows' of the search bar).
I want to limit the number of rows displayed in the interactive report to 16 per page.
Any other idea?
Emilie.
Hi Emilie,
Go: Home>Application Builder>Application 301>Page 51>Interactive Report Attributes>Search Bar>Maximum Rows Per Page
Set to = 16
Oracle help description: Defines the maximum number to display in Rows Per Page Selector in the search bar.
Greetings,
Tobias

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Dynamic Interactive Reports

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Hi Pedro,
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Saved Interactive Reports - Show Description

Is there any method to show the description for a saved interactive report?
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Apex logs and interactive reports

Hi everyone! This is my first post, so apologies if I sound like an idiot :). Anyway, my problem is as follows.
I'm on APEX version 4.0 (about to move to 4.1) and I'm trying to tie the APEX_WORKSPACE_ACTIVITY_LOG to the APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_RPT view. So, here's my query:
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R.INTERACTIVE_REPORT_ID,
R.REPORT_NAME
FROM
APEX_WORKSPACE_ACTIVITY_LOG L,
APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_RPT R
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comments
FROM
apex_dictionary
WHERE
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AND column_name = 'IR_SAVED_REPORT_ID';=> "Identifies the Saved Interactive Report ID foreign key to the APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_RPT view"
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SELECT
comments
FROM
apex_dictionary
WHERE
apex_view_name = 'APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_IR_RPT'
AND column_name = 'INTERACTIVE_REPORT_ID';=> "ID of the interactive report"
it seemed like the only ID column from that view that made any sense to join to. The return values from IR_SAVED_REPORT_ID looked like this:
9.67721361230999E15
9.90492074306116E15
[snip a few dozen rows]
and INTERACTIVE_REPORT_ID looked very similar (6.62360604127979E15, 5.94051162387204E15, etc.). Am I missing something here?
At the end of the day, all I'm trying to do here is make a metadata report on reports. Specifically, I wanted a report that told me which saved reports people were accessing, and how often they were doing it. I thought this was the way to go about it, but it seems I'm mistaken. I would appreciate any help you guys could provide.
Edited by: 910246 on Jan 25, 2012 9:18 AM
Edited by: 910246 on Jan 25, 2012 9:19 AM
Edited by: 910246 on Jan 25, 2012 9:19 AM

Hi 910246, welcome to the forum.
Please update your handle to something more personal.
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FROM apex_workspace_activity_log, apex_application_page_ir
WHERE     (   :p315_user = '%null%'
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I tried to replicate this, but could not. Now granted, I tried this using the new "modern" method of controlling the default application date format via the new application Globalization attribute "Application Date Format". I set the Application Date Format to fmMM/DD/fmYY and my IR on EMP worked just fine.
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Hi,
When using Interactive Report when one clicks on the little page icon on the left on a gievn row - one is presented with a small output from all columns for that row.
For example login as demo/demo to:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=12988:1
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Ename     KING
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Mgr     -
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Pawel.

Thanks, for your responses.
In fact this is what I have done. What I am looking after is simply how to modify what is already there. That way, I don't need to create different pages with Next/Previous buttons etc... for every Interactive Report I have.

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