Interactive Reports - Actions Menu - Download option

The interactive report Actions Menu has many wonderful options. The action that my users will use the most is the Download. Is there any way to create a button or text link for the download, similar to what is shown in the classic report? The users want the Download button to show up on the bottom left side of the IR. I appreciate all comments and hope it will be a simple solution. Many thanks.

Hi,
Yes, it is easy like this
Create button in region position bottom left
specify URL target: f?p=&APP_ID.:&APP_PAGE_ID.:CSV::::
for CSV
and change correspondingly for PDF and so on
Check this page bottom: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=20351:1
if you are not sure
That it is.
Regards,
Oleg

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Edited by: Deepak_J on Feb 24, 2010 11:46 AM
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