Interactive report - Save as html, possible to save file in database?

Hi
I am in a situation where I want the output of a interactive report in HTML format, but I do not wan't to download the files to my computer. I want to automate my process to display the report and save the file to database and to be attached to a email from Apex in a later stage.
Is this possible at all? tried different aproaches with saving data to clob and converting to blob, but it all look horrible for the end user.
Sincerely
Johnny

Check if the subscription feature or download -> email available in apex 4.0 serves your purpose.

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I'm search for a possibility to create an aggregated column that is simply a computed value of two other aggregates.
Example
This how the basis data can look like
Orderitem | price | no.
A          | 100   | 3
B          | 10    | 1     The interactive report allows then to create a calculated column "total price" (price*no.) and some aggregates.
Orderitem | price | no. | total price
A          | 100   | 3     | 300
B          | 10    | 1     | 10
           |       | sum: 4 | sum: 310I now want to create an additional aggregate line for column price holding the AVERAGE price.
If I add such a column the result is (100+10) / 2 = 55 which is wrong from a business perspective.
The correct value should be: 310/4 = 77.5.
And the result would look like this
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A          | 100       | 3     | 300
B          | 10        | 1     | 10
           | avg: 77.5 | sum: 4 | sum: 310Is is somehow possible to create this using only the interactive reports features? Without reprogramming regions or the base SQL.
I can do it using pure SQL solutions. However the end users don't have the knowledge how to create such complicated queries.
Edited by: Sven W. on Jul 3, 2009 3:22 PM
Edited by: Sven W. on Jul 3, 2009 5:02 PM

Btw. I mentioned that I can do it in pure SQL. Let me share this solution. Problem is that it is not interactive anymore.
SQL> set timing off;
SQL> with testdata as (select 'A' Orderitem, 100 price, 3 num from dual
2                    UNION ALL select 'B' Orderitem, 10 price, 1 num from dual)
3 select Orderitem,
4         Price,
5         num
6 from testdata;
O      PRICE        NUM
A        100          3
B         10          1
SQL>
SQL> with testdata as (select 'A' Orderitem, 100 price, 3 num from dual
2                    UNION ALL select 'B' Orderitem, 10 price, 1 num from dual)
3 select DECODE(GROUPING(orderitem), 1, 'All',orderitem) orderitem,
4         DECODE(GROUPING(price), 1, sum(Price * num)/sum(num) ,price) price,
5         sum(num) num,
6         sum(Price * num) total_price
7 from testdata
8 group by grouping sets ((orderitem, price, num),()) ;
ORD      PRICE        NUM TOTAL_PRICE
A          100          3         300
B           10          1          10
All       77.5          4         310
SQL> I'll guess for the real interactive feature we'll need to wait for some future Apex version.
Edited by: Sven W. on Aug 19, 2009 2:07 PM

Control Breaks in Interactive Report Throw off HTML Header Style

I created an APEX 4.0.0.11.23 page with an interactive report. Several columns are character strings with embedded spaces. At first, when the columns displayed they were wrapped around to as many lines as there were spaces. so I formatted it with this HTML header style:
$('td[headers="ADDRESS"]').attr("style","white-space:nowrap");
This corrected the problem but then the user requested two breaks on Column_A and Column_B. This threw the formatting off so I corrected it with this HTML header style:
$('td[headers="ADDRESS BREAK_COLUMN_A_COLUMN_B_2"]').attr("style","white-space:nowrap");
Now the lines wrap for some but not for all rows and there does not seem to be any pattern. So for instance the address for one particular row will look display in the desired format as:
530 EAST 144TH STREET
And another almost identical row will display as:
525 EAST 143RD
STREET
I thought there may be binary data in the column so I embedded the following code in the main SELECT query that drives the page”
Regexp_Replace(ADDRESS, '[^[:print:]]')
This did not help. How do I implement HTML header styles for interactive reports with multiple control breaks so that the address is formatted properly for every line? Is there a related report or page attribute that needs to be set?
BTW, the way I discovered the HTML header style for interactive reports with multiple control breaks by following this link which was provided in a related thread:
Re: Interactive Report Control Break disregards HTML Header style.
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im developing an application in the APEX 3.1 with an interactive report, standard functionality allows users to save there report view (but not the default view) as i understand.
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Hello,
I am using APEX 4.0. I have an interactive report that displays some of the columns bold and / or colors using html tags. As an example,
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'PRODUCT_NAME,'||chr(10)||
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Thanks in advance.
Ed

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Interactive report - strip HTML

Hi,
Where is the option to strip HTML for an Interactive report? Is it possible to set this option for each column?
N.B. This setting can be found under Layout and Pagination for classic report.
Thanks,
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Blog: http://insum-apex.blogspot.com

Louis-Guillaume,
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HTML Code text appearing instead of checkbox in an interactive report

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When I try to include a check box column in an interactive report only the HTML text is being displayed as
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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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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).
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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.
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and session_id is null;
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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
set APPLICATION_USER = :APP_USER
where session_id is null;
end;
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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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I have 3 pages in my application:
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The HTML header&footer of Report is the same as Interactive report.
I use function load_report for calling the Report on the Main page:
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Edited by: Senleft on 04.03.2009 22:48
I changed "<" to "-" in string gReturn = get.get(null,'-div id="IREP"-', '-/div-'); because ">" is not displayed

Before calling Interactive report gReturn has the next value:
"---div id="apexir_WORKSHEET_REGION" class="apex_worksheet"--- ---div id="apexir_DETAIL" class="apex_detail"---"
I changed '<' ' to' '---' because '><' is not displayed
Before calling Report gReturn has the next value (I'm sorry but the header column is on Russian):
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<tr><td><table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" class="t17Standard">
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Interactive report and font colours

Apex : current version
I have an interactive report that displays details from Table 1.
I need to display the data is different colours. How do I do that?
Eg: name of employees in green their email id in red etc etc.
Can I do this ? If yes, please tell me how do I do this?
Thanks in advance.

LKSwetha wrote:
Hi Joe,
The colour varies in fields based on what is displayed.
For instance, I have the main employees table and a skills table with values Job A, Job B ,Job C etc.
Different employees are skilled for different jobs so emp1 can have job A and job b while emp2 can have job D and job A etc
The interactive report actually pulls data from a view I created based on the emp table and skill table
emp1 job A Job B
emp2 job D job A
I want to display all Job A(displayed in report) in green colour and Job B in red and so on....Then why didn't you say so originally?
Eg: name of employees in green their email id in red etc etc.No mention of skills, jobs or conditions.
I want to know of we can do this and if yes how do I achieve it.Yes you can do this. If you had searched the forum before posting you'd have found out how to do it more than 24 hours ago.
The real question is whether you should be doing this at all. Why do you think actually need/want to do this? It doesn't seem to provide any real usability benefit, and appear very likely to violate Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
But if you must...
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select
⋮
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The Display As column attribute for such columns must be set to Standard Report Column.
This method has side effects: some IR filters won't work; aggregate calculations can't be applied to the column; and report exports contain the HTML rather than the expected value.
Other approaches involve using Dynamic Actions/jQuery/JavaScript.
However, if there are more than a few jobs/skills involved, or this information is volatile and subject to change then this method breaks down. To start with, there are only 17 named CSS colours, so if your minimal CSS knowledge doesn't extend to specifying colours in another way and you've more than 16 jobs then they can't all have a unique colour (white/silver/gray will be invisible on some IR backgrounds). It's also difficult/tedious to maintain this type of hard coding if the data changes frequently. How many jobs/skills are there?
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select
⋮
       , '<span style="color: ' || sk.color || ';">' || sk.skill || '</span>' job1
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⋮
I am not so familiar with CSS so am bit confused while trying previous steps given by fac586What is confusing (other than posting a question different to the one you actually want answered)?
You will be able to achieve very little in APEX if you are unfamiliar with the web technologies it uses. Spend some time on the tutorials here: start with HTML, then XHTML, CSS, Javascript and the HTML DOM, and now HTML5.
Can you give me any simpler steps to achieve this? No, that is the simplest way to implement what was originally asked for.
When you have a problem you'll get a faster, more effective response by including as much relevant information as possible upfront. This should include:
<li>Full APEX version
<li>Full DB/version/edition/host OS
<li>Web server architecture (EPG, OHS or APEX listener/host OS)
<li>Browser(s) and version(s) used
<li>Theme
<li>Template(s)
<li>Region/item type(s) (making particular distinction as to whether a "report" is a standard report, an interactive report, or in fact an "updateable report" (i.e. a tabular form) and if so, whether the tabular form is declarative—using only report attributes and a wizard generated MRU process—or manual—using apex_item calls in the query and custom processing—or some hybrid approach.)
With APEX we're also fortunate to have a great resource in apex.oracle.com where we can reproduce and share problems. Reproducing things there is the best way to troubleshoot most issues, especially those relating to layout and visual formatting. If you expect a detailed answer then it's appropriate for you to take on a significant part of the effort by getting as far as possible with an example of the problem on apex.oracle.com before asking for assistance with specific issues, which we can then see at first hand.
Read the FAQ and forum sticky threads if you haven't done so already.

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is it possible to display more than one interactive report on a page.
Thanks for any idea
Norbert

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http://djmein.blogspot.com/2008/03/multiple-interactive-reports-on-one.html
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