Intermedia text (oracle text) and excel

Hi,
is it possible to index just one single sheet instead of the whole excel-workbook in
oracle text? Or is it possible to name just one sheet (e.g. table1) in a 'contains'
query? Additionally, is it possible to searc for the number of occurences of a term
within one document (i.e. excel-sheet)? Thanks for your help in advance.
Best Regards,
Dan

Hi Dan,
is it possible to index just one single sheet instead of the whole excel-workbook in
oracle text? No
Or is it possible to name just one sheet (e.g. table1) in a 'contains'
query?No
Additionally, is it possible to searc for the number of occurences of a term
within one document (i.e. excel-sheet)? Thanks for your help in advance.I am not sure at the moment, maybe with some kind of rankin.
The problem is the the INSO-filter converts the excel file to a html file and oracle is reading this generated file. And in file there is no information about excel sheets.
Regards,
Thomas

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Then ran my SQL for the report in Toad and APEX SQL Workshop>SQL Commands before creating an APEX Region based on a SQL Report
select score(1) relevance, doc_title, doc_url
from htmldb_documentation
where CONTAINS (doc_url, :P1_SEARCH, 1) > 0
order by 1 desc
After running the APEX Report I get error
report error:
ORA-29902: error in executing ODCIIndexStart() routine
ORA-20000: Oracle Text error:
DRG-50901: text query parser syntax error on line 1, column 1
I also ran these grant commands after I received this error
grant ctxapp to demo;
grant execute on ctx_cls to demo;
grant execute on ctx_ddl to demo;
grant execute on ctx_doc to demo;
grant execute on ctx_output to demo;
grant execute on ctx_query to demo;
grant execute on ctx_report to demo;
grant execute on ctx_thes to demo;
grant execute on ctx_ulexer to demo;
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If I replace the bind variable :P1_SEARCH, with a literal value the error disappears

Couple of things to check:
1) do you have an item called P1_SEARCH in your application?
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Thanks,
- Scott -
http://sumnertechnologies.com
http://spendolini.blogspot.com

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Once they complete filling up that GUI form, they click SUBMIT. All the values will then be read. These strings are then required to be output to 2 files
1. To a text file which I can open it and read it anytime I wish.
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I have following problem:
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2 /
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7 /
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2 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
3 PARAMETERS
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6       memory    50m')
7 NOPARALLEL
8 /
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2 /
TOKEN_TEXT
MY-TEST
OWR-TEST
TEST
TESTING
4 rows selected.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> SELECT mt.*
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3 WHERE contains (mt.COLUMN1, 'test%') > 0
4 /
COLUMN1
test
testing
2 rows selected.

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Thanks for the earlier response.
I was also loooking at Oracle Ultra Search. I figured out that Ultr search provides out of the box query application to do free-form text search, parameterized search and so on....
I also read that Oracle Ultra search uses Oracle text as the underlying technology to do the search.
I have a requirement where most of my searches will be on structured data spread across multiple tables. But I also have a requirement to index some static content which resides on the file system.
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