Interactive Reports - Database Hack for sharing developer saved reports

Question

Just this morning I posted to another thread about not being able to create and save multiple reports, but after a bit of database hacking, I've got it working in version 3.1.2.
I take no responsibility in anything that may happen to your APEX install because of what I am about to tell you.  If you try this, you do so at your own risk.
That's right, you CAN create multiple default views for your users.
Background:
<ul><li>     I created 1 interactive report.</li>
<li>     I added criteria and saved the report with the name Report1.</li>
<li>I modified the criteria and saved the report with a new name 3 additional times.</li>
<li>I am now seeing 5 tabs
<ul><li>Working Report</li>
<li>Report1</li>
<li>Report2</li>
<li>Report3</li>
<li>Report4</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>At this point, other users can not see the reports because they are private to me.</li>
</ul>
So, how can I make these reports public to other users?
<ul><li>Logon to your APEX database as a user that has privileges to select and update the WWV_FLOW_WORKSHEET_RPTS table.</li>
<li>Browse the table and find the 4 rows of the new reports that were created above.</li>
<li>Set the SESSION_ID and BASE_REPORT_ID columns to NULL</li>
<li>Set the APPLICTION_USER column to 'APXWS_DEFAULT'</li>
<li>Set the STATUS column to 'PUBLIC'</li>
<li>Set the IS_DEFAULT column to 'Y'</li>
</ul>
It seems to be the combination of APPLICATION_USER and IS_DEFAULT that really makes it work, but I set the other fields to make them look like the row for the working report.
So, now after making these changes, I had two other users login to the site and look at the interactive report, and viola, 5 default tabbed reports!
Hope this helps someone!!!
Kris

Answer 1

Hello,
Just to stress, that the moment you do direct modifications to WWV_FLOW_WORKSHEET_RPTS (or indeed any 'internal' table) via this non-supported route you are probably making your APEX installation non-supported by Oracle (hopefully someone from Oracle can speaking officially on that).
Even if your update works today, tomorrow, in a months time, you have still done something that you were not supposed to do.
So, do you really want to do that in production?
Just playing Devils Advocate.
John.
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