Is this Report Possible?

Question

Hi,
I am wanting to create the following SQL Updateable report, for example:
foo1--bar1---aa---checkbox item that is only displayed once representing all of foo1
foo1--bar2---bb
foo1--bar3---cc
============ <<<==== horizontal rule separating foos **
foo2--bar4---dd---checkbox item that is only displayed once representing all of foo2
foo2--bar5---ee
============
foo3--bar4---dd---checkbox item that is only displayed once representing all of foo3
foo3--bar5---ee
============
foo4--bar4---dd---checkbox item that is only displayed once representing all of foo4
============
foo5--bar5---ee---checkbox item that is only displayed once representing all of foo5
foo5--bar5---ee
foo5--bar5---ee
Just a short description of the above scenario, basically want the grouped foos, i.e foo1 to have one associated checkbox item that will represent the column value foo1 and again for foo2, foo3 etc
Would also like a horizontal line to separate each of the grouped foos.
Is this possible? If yes, could some please assist as for starters, I am not sure how to only display the one checkbox ONLY to represent all of foo1 and not actually have three separate checkboxes for each foo1 record.
Thanks.
Tony.

Answer 1

Tony,
Here is a report I wrote in PLSQL (some time ago) that shows what you might want to do. You can add Dimitri's code in the appropriate place. In another report I used a function that emitted the appropriate data with the html formatting. So you would pass 'foo1' and the function would spin a cursor and format the results pass it back with the separator bar included.
DECLARE
  N_OWNER NUMBER;
  N_LOT   NUMBER;
  B_2     BOOLEAN := TRUE;
  B_3     BOOLEAN := TRUE;
  B_4     BOOLEAN := TRUE;
  CURSOR C1 IS SELECT LOT_ID,STREET FROM LOT
                 WHERE LOT_ID > 0 AND LOT_ID < 21
                ORDER BY LOT_ID;
  CURSOR C2 IS SELECT
   OWNER_ID,LAST_NAME||', '||FIRST_NAME AS NAME,
               OWNER_TYPE,ACCESS_CODE
               FROM OWNER WHERE LOT_ID = N_LOT
               ORDER BY OWNER_TYPE DESC;
  CURSOR C3 IS SELECT PHONE_NUM||' '||TYPE AS PHONE
               FROM PHONE WHERE OWNER_ID = N_OWNER
               ORDER BY TYPE;
  CURSOR C4 IS SELECT LAST_NAME||', '||FIRST_NAME AS
NAME,RELATION
               FROM OTHER_PEOPLE
               WHERE LOT_ID = N_LOT;
BEGIN
  HTP.PRINT('<TABLE BORDER="0">');
  FOR C1R IN C1 LOOP
    HTP.PRINT('<tr>');
    HTP.PRINT('<td><strong><div style="font-size:12;">'||C1R.LOT_ID||'</strong></div></td>');
    HTP.PRINT('<td><strong><div style="font-size:12;">'||C1R.STREET||
'</strong></div></td>');
    HTP.PRINT('</tr>');
    N_LOT := C1R.LOT_ID;
    FOR C2R IN C2 LOOP
      IF B_2 THEN
        B_2 := FALSE;
      ELSE
        HTP.PRINT('<tr>');
      END IF;
      HTP.PRINT('<td><strong><div style="font-size:12;">'||C2R.NAME||','||
'</strong></div></td>');
      HTP.PRINT('<td><strong><div style="font-size:12;">'||C2R.OWNER_TYPE||
'</strong></div></td>');
      HTP.PRINT('<td><div style="font-size:12;">'||C2R.ACCESS_CODE||
'</strong></div></td>');
      HTP.PRINT('</tr>');
      N_OWNER := C2R.OWNER_ID;
      FOR C3R IN C3 LOOP
        HTP.PRINT('<tr>');
        HTP.PRINT('<td></td>');
        HTP.PRINT('<td><div style="font-size:12;">'||C3R.PHONE||
'</div></td>');
        HTP.PRINT('</tr>');
      END LOOP;  -- C3
    END LOOP; -- C2
    FOR C4R IN C4 LOOP
      HTP.PRINT('<tr>');
      HTP.PRINT('<tr><td></td><td');
      HTP.PRINT('<td align="right">'||C4R.NAME||'<td>');
      HTP.PRINT('<td align="left">'||C4R.RELATION||'</td>');
      HTP.PRINT('</tr>');
    END LOOP;  -- C4
    HTP.PRINT('<tr>');
    HTP.PRINT('<td>'||'-------------------'||'</td>');
    HTP.PRINT('<td>'||'-------------------'||'</td>');
    HTP.PRINT('<td>'||'-------------------'||'</td>');
    HTP.PRINT('</tr>');
  END LOOP; -- C1
  HTP.PRINT('</table>');
  EXCEPTION
  WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
    HTP.PRINT('ERROR NO DATA FOUND');
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
    HTP.PRINT('ERROR OTHERS '||SQLERRM);
END;Keep Smiling,
Bob R