Interactive report PDF download

Hi,
PDF output is not proper when interactive report is having more number of columns. I have a interactive report with 40 columns. I tried to change Page attributes in print attributes tab. But there is no change.
Please tell me what setups to be done for this.
Regards
Mohan

hi ,
i think you need to configure BIpublisher to setup inside your server to get the pdf output from apex report.
http://www.rittmanmead.com/2008/04/21/oracle-apex-and-bi-publisher/
thanks
Mark Wyatt

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On the front end, when a user runs an interactive report, they are able to hide and show columns, and then click on Actions > Download > PDF. I want this to access the custom template and return a PDF based on this template, and also showing the columns that the user has selected in the interactive report.
I have already created a custom RTF Word Doc in BI Publisher, and have uploaded it into a report query created in Apex. I am not sure though how to apply this report query to an interactive report, or if that’s even what I’m supposed to do to get it to work the way I want it to.
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Under this, there is a "Print Server Overwrite". I thought this is where you can specify your report query. But I am not sure if I even need a report query because I don't understand why you have a report query that is based on a static query, when in an Interactive Report, the user can hide columns.
I have Apex 4.0.1.00.03 and Oracle BI Publisher 10.1.3.4.0d installed.
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Hi Gage,
Custom RTF and XSL-FO templates are currently only supported with classic report regions and report queries, but not with interactive reports. So you would need to create a report query based on the SQL statement you used for your interactive report and then associated your template with that report query. Unfortunately you won't be able to use any of your customizations, filters, or column selections this way. We're planing to support report layouts with interactive reports in the future.
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Interactive Report PDF Footer

We are replacing a bunch of Crystal reports with the new interactive reports. When we download an interactive report to PDF, it automatically puts the page number at the bottom right of every page. However, I'd like it to say "Page 1 of 3", "Page 2 of 3", etc. on the right side of the footer. And I'd also like it to say "Printed on 4/8/2008 at 2:15 pm" on the left side of the footer. This is what we displayed in the footer section on our old Crystal reports. I see the "Page Footer" section under "Print Attributes" for the interactive report, but I can't figure out what I need to enter into the section to make it display as described above. We are using the "Standard" print server (Apache FOP).
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Hi Tony,
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I'm using "apex.oraclecorp.com" and have created reports based on RTF and SQL in application shared components. If i use APEX_UTIL.REDIRECT_URL API, i'm able to get the PDF output of my report. Unfortunately, REDIRECT_URL execute STOP ENGINE api internally, which stops the apex engine for any further processing and due to this rest of my plsql logic, dynamic actions, page refresh are not working !
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Company information in Interactive Report PDF Header.

Apex 3.1.XX has the amazing feature known as Interactive Reports. These reports have a default pdf they can generate which is also pretty nifty seeing how it doesn't involve any work. The down side is that I cannot find a way to Edit the pdf that is generated by Interactive Report. Does anybody know how to change the header on the reports produced by Interactive Reports? Is there a way to change the default format through BI Publisher?
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I believe you can change the headers/footers, etc through the Apex interface. The exact path escapes me right now, I did write a coupld of blog articles about the integration that might help.
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What actually going on under the covers is that APEX collects all of the look and feel information and creates an FO object (think v rich html) and then calls Publisher to process it and return the output.
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Hi,
This might help
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Thanks & Regards,
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Steps of pdf Printing of Report from FOP:
1) Download and unzip the following needed files in D:\Apex_fop directory.
2) Open your command prompt .
Change the directory to D:\Apex_fop\cocoon-2.1.11.
Set the Java_Home environment variable as: set JAVA_HOME= C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_21
then type build war
3) After getting the prompt back as D:>Apex_fop>cocoon-2.1.11>
Copy coocon.war file from the folder D:\Apex_fop\cocoon-2.1.11\build\cocoon.
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level of webapps directory.
4) Now just startup tomcat as D:>APEX_FOP>apache-tomcat-6.0.26>bin>startup.bat
The cocoon.war file will automatically uncompressed as directory.
5) To change the port of apache tomcat , edit apache-tomcat-6.0.26\conf\server.xml & change port attribute of Connector element from 8080 to 8181.
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I am sure this will help you
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