Interactive Report questions

Good Afternoon,
I converted a sql classic report to an interactive report. The classic report has parameters, that once selected fires a page process that inserts data into a table, which creates column headings for my report. The parameters still work in the interactive report, but I want the interactive report to handle the parameters instead.
Problems I can't figure out how to mimic this in the interactive report: example: the classic report could have up to 50 columns and change when a user selects a unit and displays that unit's report date as a column heading once the user hits the run report button. I wan the user to be able to do that using the IR filters, but I cannot find the actions menu items name to change the page process to fire when the user presses apply.
The parameters the user currently selects are Unit and enter a From and To Date. This is what I need to mimic in the IR. I am using a union query for this report. Is this even possible.
I am using apex 4.1, theme is Underlined from 3.2 and Oracle 11g.
Thanks,
Mary

Mary,
Not sure that I understood all of that but, I think, overall, you just want to be able to be able to submit the page (and thus fire your On Submit Page process) when the user clicks Apply? Is this right?
If so, you don't actually have to fire anything from the click of the Apply button. It turns out that, whenever the Apply button is clicked, the Refresh event is fired for your Interactive Report (IRR). However, what's different is that the IRR refresh is implemented with a "Partial Page Refresh" whereas your Classic Report was implemented using a Page submission, i.e. refreshing just one section versus refreshing the whole page.
So, all that is necessary is to do something "After Refresh" of the region.
There are lots of ways to do this. The easiest would be to:
1. Create a Dynamic Action that is fired After Refresh of your IRR. The "Action" is going to be JavaScript. Here's the code:
apex.submit('PROPERTY_SET'); 2. This causes the page to be submitted whenever the IRR is refreshed. By submitting the page, you will get your whole page refresh that you had before.
All of this said, I would use AJAX and do all of this without submitting the page but, that is a longer post. This should work for you as a quick solution.
-Joe

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In order to use the download options of pdf or rtf on an interactive report, do we need BI Publisher.
I have tested the download email option and it seems to work, but with the subscription option, but I am not recieving an email.
Gus

Gus,
If you want the pdf/rtf in custom format then you need BI Publisher, if just downloading i dont think so.
Subscription:
Make sure you enable subscription under
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then under Add Subscription make sure you fill in all the fields, i use this feature for almost all my applications, it sure does work.
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Hi guys!
Is it possible to create link which filters Interactive Report? I would like to create a report on one page which contains all the user saved interactive reports and then if another users clicks one, page changes to a page with an interactive report and the saved report opens?
With regards,
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I'm referring to this help text in Advanced attributes - "If saved versions of the report exist, this specifies if they should be displayed as tabs. Turn tabs off if you want to create a separate page with a list of reports.". This is my goal - separate page with reports with on click page redicrection to saved report.
Im looking through help file and found this:
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hi all,
i created an interactive report that uses a query like this..
SELECT i.issue_id "ID",
i.title "TITLE",
i.module "MODULE",
u1.last_name || ', ' || u1.first_name || ' ' || SUBSTR(u1.middle_name,   1,   1) || '.' "OWNER",
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users u1,
users u2,
users u3
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AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_idi created an application item called APP_USERID and added a process on the 101 page to select the userid into :APP_USERID from users_table where username = :app_user.
i want to create a default filter based on the current user's user_id. if i change my query like this
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_id
AND i.owner = :APP_USERIDit works fine but if i wanted to view all records not just owned by the current user, i will have a problem.
can anyone suggest an approach on how i can solve this.
thanks.
regards,
allen

Hi Allen,
I tried some different things in the Interactive reports (make a default with :ITEM or &ITEM.), but they didn't work.
The only why I can think of now how to get it work is by adding in your query a DECODE or NVL
WHERE 1 = 1
AND i.owner = u1.user_id
AND i.reported_by = u2.user_id
AND i.submitter = u3.user_id
AND i.owner = NVL(:APP_USERID,i.owner)
Basically what it does, if the value of :APP_USERID is set it will use that, if that value is null it will return all records. So you would have a process or computation that sets the item APP_USERID to null when you hit something to get all records.
Regards,
Dimitri
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Interactive Reports - Question about Downloading PDF, CSV, Email, etc

I recently installed the latest version of APEX. I deployed it as an EAR on Oracle WebLogic. I then created a simple
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run the report.
What setup\configuration is required to get the emailing and downloading of the other files to work?
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Wes

Hello Wes,
Sending a report as an email requires an SMTP server. You need to configure your instance settings to point to the SMTP server.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17556_01/doc/admin.40/e15521/adm_mg_service_set.htm#BEJBCEEH
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Interactive Report question-New to Apex

Hi, I am new to Apex..I request your help in solving a prob..
I am trying to create an interactive report(IR) which has more than 160 columns..It says the max limit is 60(or 64) columns..I remember when I was just starting to build the app it did allow me to create the report with 160+ columns but I didnt want to start with IR..My entire application has been built and this is the only thing that has to be done..Is there anyway to create an IR with 160+ columns now that I am almost finishing up the app..
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Hi R,
I had the same thought; if it's possible to create a new appl with IR with 160+ columns then do so.
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With regards,
PsmakR

Hi Imran,
Basically we can have one basic list and 20 interactive lists.
Once when we reached to 20th list then it goes to shortdump.
So, inorder to avoid that we can modify the system field
SY-LSIND.
Just see this example and try this. I hope this will be useful for you.
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data: begin of itab occurs 0,
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hide itab-matnr.
endloop.
at line-selection.
select maktx spras into table jtab from makt where spras = 'EN' .
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when '1'.
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write:/ jtab-maktx, jtab-spras.
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I hope this will be helpful for you.
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Cheers,
Swamy kunche
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Interactive report question

Hello,
Is it possible dont include column in IR (simply dont show column on page, but in SELECt it is), but to have opportunnity search data by this column (it means to have this columns list in built in IR's search region).
Thank you!

Hi,
Column need to be available in report, so display attribute can not be hidden.
But you can hide column from report default layout.
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vlablin,
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- Marco

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Hello
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Hello,
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1 \value\ should do the trick
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Hello!
First of all I'd like to say Interactive Report is a really really brilliant feature, it covers exactly that points which we were missing in previous releases of Apex. Only this single feature makes Apex 3.1 release most significant for us since may be HTML DB 1.6. So much much thanks!
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Alex

Hi Alex,
Glad to hear you're putting interactive reports to use, we put in a lot of time trying to get them right (at least for their first release).
1) The "Save As Default Report Settings" option is only available for Developers, so you can only see it if you already see the developer toolbar at the bottom of the page. Standard end-users can't see this, so they can't save over your default report settings.
2) That's right, the character set of the DAD needs to be AL32UTF8.
3) A maximum of 1000 chart points will be returned, but you should not get this error. Can you describe the columns you are charting and the chart settings?
- Marco
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Interactive Reporting 11.1.2.1 Questions

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Background
Apex 3.1 is installed on Oracle 10g instance on local machine but all data is stored on a remote machine on Oracle 9 & 10 instances.
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The Apex Application that I am developing is to be used as a Quick Find/KPI Reporting tool and is setup to utilise DBLinks and Synonyms.
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Basic question in interactive reporting

Hi
I'm a kid in IR, I installed IR Studio 9.3.1 , and I even installed IR web Client from workspace, Can anyone tell me how to login in to web client, I mean I need web address. If my question is wrong ...let me know how IR works , where you develop(I guess obviously in studio) , is there any webadress like planning.
I appreciate if any one give some basic Idea.
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M.V

You do not need to "log-in" to webclient. As I suppose (you installed webclient) you are allready logged in to workspace and you only need to import an interactive reporting document (bqy) into workspace. after that you just have to rightclick on the file in your workspacefolder and choose if you want to open the document in html or in webclient. when you choose the client, the plugin will open and you can use many of the functions you also have in the studioclient. in html you only have very few options of editing.
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Marius
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