Manual pagination

Hello,
I am using APEX 4.2.2
I have a Dynamic PL/SQL region that shows too many number of rows. How can I create a pagination for that result set.
Regards,

Use a normal report with a source function returning SQL query. Otherwise there is no way to get the pagination working.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.apress.com/9781430235125
https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=31517:1
http://www.amazon.de/Oracle-APEX-XE-Praxis/dp/3826655494

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Hi Craig,
Sorry - yes, the setting of the next/previous vaules should be a process, well spotted!
In your report, if you click on the Region Footer heading to popup its help, you'll see that you have various values available to you:
#TIMING#
#ROWS_FETCHED# (items shown on the page)
#FIRST_ROW_FETCHED# (X in X-Y of Z in pagination)
#LAST_ROW_FETCHED# (Y in X-Y of Z in pagination)
#TOTAL_ROWS# (total rows in report - Z in X-Y of Z in pagination)
As these are only available AFTER the report has been generated, you can not easily use them to conditionally hide/show your next/previous buttons. However, you can use them within javascript to do this instead. For example (put this in the region footer for the report and change the button names to match yours):
<script type="text/javascript">
var n = $('P1_NEXT_BUTTON');
var p = $('P1_PREVIOUS_BUTTON');
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1. Create "SQL report" with next report attributes in "Layout and Pagination"
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I have a manual tabular form based on a dynamic view. The view fetches the records based on search criteria given by the user in all cases. But this view fetches ALL records when user clicks on pagination, without considering the search criteria. This is the problem I am facing.
I am doing the following:
Since tabular form does not support pl/sql function returning query, I cannot use a table directly. I need my results based on search criteria selected by user. Hence I created a dynamic view and used a "INSTEAD OF UPDATE" trigger to update the table.
I use a set bind variables procedure, on load before header for setting the variables.
This view fetches the correct data based on user search always. It creates a problem only in one situation, when using pagination in the report.
The example can be found at:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=19399:1:
username = [email protected]
pwd = kishore
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http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/
workspace: sekhar.nooney
Username :[email protected]
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application id = 19399
My region code is something like:
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from regadm_request_v
where access_type = :F110_REGADM
and status <> 'INACTIVE'
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AS
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AND upper(manager_name) LIKE '%'||nvl(upper(REGADM_REQUEST_PKG.GET_MANAGER_NAME),'%')||'%'
AND upper(employee_sunetid) LIKE '%'||nvl(upper(REGADM_REQUEST_PKG.GET_EMPLOYEE_SUNET_ID),'%')||'%'
AND upper(manager_sunetid) LIKE '%'||nvl(upper(REGADM_REQUEST_PKG.GET_MANAGER_SUNET_ID),'%')||'%'
AND upper(request_date) LIKE '%'||nvl(upper(REGADM_REQUEST_PKG.GET_REQUEST_DATE),'%')||'%'
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Andy/Varad any ideas? You both helped me a lot on my problems for the same application that I had faced before in More Problems in Tabular form - Please give me suggestions.
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Hi Andy,
The view and the package for setting bind variables work properly in my entire application other than the pagination. A pity that I came across this only now :(
I have used this same method for holding variables in another application before, where I needed to print to PDF. I used this approach in the other application because my queries were not within the APEX character limit specified for the "SQL Query of Report Query shared component".
In this application, I initially had to fetch values from 2 tables and update the 2 tables. Updateable form works only with one table right? Hence I had created a view. Later the design got changed to include search and instead of changing the application design I just changed the view then. Still later, my clients merged the 2 tables. Once again I had just changed my view.
Now, I wanted to know if any method was available for the pagination issue (using the view itself). Hence I posted this.
But as you suggested, I think it is better to change the page design quickly (as it would be much easier).
If I change the region query to use the table and the APEX bind parameters in the where clause as:
SELECT *
FROM REGADM_REQUEST
WHERE upper(employee_name) LIKE '%'||nvl(upper(:P1_EMPLOYEE_NAME),'%')||'%' .....
I also changed the ApplyMRU to refer to the table.
Here the pagination issue is resolved. But here the "last Update By" and "Last Update Date" columns do not get updated with "SYSDATE" and "v(APP_USER)" values, when update takes place. Even if I make the columns as readonly text field, I am not sure how I can ensure that SYSDATE and v('APP_uSER') can be passed to the columns. Any way I can ensure this? Please have a look at the issue here: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=19399:1:
I have currently resolved the "last update" column issue by modifying my view as:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW REGADM_REQUEST_V
AS
SELECT *
FROM REGADM_REQUEST
I modified my region query to use APEX bind parameters itself as:
SELECT *
FROM REGADM_REQUEST_V
WHERE upper(employee_name) LIKE '%'||nvl(upper(:P1_EMPLOYEE_NAME),'%')||'%' .....
And I use the "INSTEAD OF UPDATE" trigger that I had initially written for update. The code is:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER REGADM_REQUEST_UPD_TRG
INSTEAD OF UPDATE
ON REGADM_REQUEST_V
REFERENCING NEW AS NEW OLD AS OLD
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
UPDATE REGREGOWNER.REGADM_REQUEST
SET MANAGER_EMAIL = :NEW.MANAGER_EMAIL
, EMPLOYEE_EMAIL = :NEW.EMPLOYEE_EMAIL
, STATUS_UPDATE_DATETIME = SYSDATE
, USER_UPDATE_ID = (SELECT v('APP_USER') FROM DUAL)
WHERE REQUEST_ID = :OLD.REQUEST_ID;
END;
Please let me know how I can resolve the "last update" column issue using the table itself. (Just for my learning)
Thanks,
Sumana

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Right-right the Details group to add Page Breaks with the “Between each instance of a group” option.
Insert the expression below in the textbox:
=ceiling(Rownumber("DataSet1") / 1)
Then use the expression below to control the row visibility:
=iif(ceiling (Rownumber("DataSet1") / 1)>reportitems!Textbox6.Value,true,false)
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Besides, we can use the expression below to manually add page break with 10 rows for each page in the tablix:
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The following similar thread is for your reference:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/sqlserver/en-US/ab9c18bc-ee37-45a2-a52d-628c12d08b33/ssrspagination-on-report-body
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

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All is well. Case closed. The problem was that I manually typed in the letter A when I should have selected a Special Character>Markers>Current Page Number that inserted its special character that appears as the letter A.
In retrospect, my "complex" problems turned out to be pilot error. I deeply appreciate your patience and kindness as well as your great expertise. Best regards.
I do have one comment. This version of Jive is really tough to navigate once a question reaches more than two pages old. I was out of the office nearly all day yesterday after my previous post to you. It was really tough finding your very helpful reply because my question was old enough to be on page 3 or 4. Thank goodness for the email notification. This has been a hard-earned Correct Answer for you.

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I'm struggling to get a handle on this control. So far, my experience with TableView has been pretty good. I love the features you get with this Pagination control out of the box, but some of the choices that were made with regards with what APIs to expose confuse me. The frustrating thing about callbacks is that sometimes you can get caught in this callback hell where there are all sorts of callbacks being invoked and you don't really know why. Often times, the Javadoc does not indicate that there is a default listener being applied to certain property that may invoke one of these callback. I don't mean to sound like a rant. Overall my experience with JavaFX 8 has been very positive so far. I can usually always find a workaround if a come across a weird issue with an out of the box control. Worst comes to worst, I'll write my own Pagination control.
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Does Acrobat Pro 9 support "page-break-before" CSS tag? ie Pagination issues

Hey there
Converting a whole stack of html files to PDF and having some pagination issues. Titles not staying with images and tables getting chopped in half by page breaks etc.
Thought i could solve it by using carefully placed "page-break-before:always" tags where i wanted the page break. Works as expected in Safari when i go to print but not when i "File:Create PDF: From File" in Acrobat Pro. They get ignored.
Here's how they should work:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html#x3
This is a major hassle. I've got over 600 webpages to convert to PDF's and manually entering <br> to force items onto the next page is getting old.
Here's some sample html, paste it into a file, save, open it in Safari and then go to print. It should print 7 pages. Open it in Acrobat Pro 9.1.0 and you get one page.
<body>
test0
<p style="page-break-before: always">
test
<p style="page-break-before: always">
test1
<p style="page-break-before: always">
test2
<p style="page-break-before: always">
test3
<p style="page-break-before: always">
test4
<p style="page-break-before: always">
</body>
The really nice thing is this would be so useful. You can attach the tag (page-break-before:avoid) to a Caption style and always be assured that it will stay with a following graphic when you print the webpage. Or use it to make sure a table doesn't get cut in half.
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/page-break-after
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/page-break-before
Any hints would be great
tia
Jeremy

Nope. Did the </br> thing.
Cost me some serious cash. Very annoying.
I haven't tried it with Safari 5. Acrobat allowed me set page margins, something that Safari 4 didn't allow (didn't support margin css tags). But acrobat didn't support the pagination and Safari 4 did.
Like i said annoying
I'll see if Safari 5 supports the print margins css tags.
I'll prob get asked to do this again so would like to sort it out
Jeremy

Pagination woes

Hi - wonder if anyone else has this problem...?
I have three Framemaker book files. To simplify (and reduce the number of files, let's say I have:
* Master book file
file a
file b
file c
file d
* Book 1
file a
file b
file c
* Book 2
file a
file b
file d
Some files contain conditional text. I have set each file (independently) and each file in the book, apart from file a, to delete empty pages, and start on next available page. I have a double-sided layout. I display *all conditions* in the Master book before selecting Update Book. I then open (say) Book 1, display *its* conditions and choose Update Book.
My problem is that, no matter what I try, whenever I try to build Book 1 or Book 2 the pagination does not work correctly.
I always have to go back through individual files after updating, and re-apply the correct Master pages, when they should update correctly/automatically. This is a pain, as my real books contain many files (not just 4 as above). Specifically, a chapter page will start on the wrong side, and/or an extra blank page will be generated at the end of a file.
When updating, I select "Apply Master Pages", and have the following Master Page assignments on the Reference page:
UnstructMasterPageMaps
Book Update (Yes or No): Yes
Paragraph Tag Name    Right-Handed Master Page (or Single-Sided Master Page)    Left-Handed Master Page    Range Indicator (Single, Span pages, Until changed)    Comments
Chapter.number    First-R    First-L    Single
Appendix.number    First-R    First-L    Single
IX.name    Index-First-R    Index-First-L    Single
TOC.name    First-R    First-L    Single
Glossary.name    First-R    First-L    Single
Manual title    First Front        Single
Regards,
Martin Ley
martin at em-dash dot com

Hi Art,
Thanks for the speedy reply.
I'm using Frame v9.0p250 under XP SP3, itself under Parallels Desktop for Mac on my MacBook Pro 17", 8GB RAM, OS X 10.6.2.
I thought I had covered all pagination eventualities by saying "I have set each file (independently) and each file in the book" - maybe I wasn't explicit enough - apologies. What I did (as well as going into each individual file and doing it) was:
1. Select the first file in the book (actually from the Book file) and set Pagination to Double Sided, Right, Delete Empty Pages.
2. Select all the other files and set Pagination to Double- Sided, Next Available, Delete Empty Pages.
Knowing that book settings stomp over individual file settings, I figured that was the way to go.
I suspect that you may be correct when you talk about my specific requirements throwing off the automatic pagination. The weird thing is sometimes it works if I update twice in a row. These manuals have been in existence since Frame 5, and I have 'improved' them many times over the years. Perhaps this page layout is a bridge too far - I was hoping the Reference page setup would work for me - it seems that's what it's designed to do (applying specific Left or Right masters depending on paragraph tags).
Again weirdly, I thought I had solved the problem by not having the 'master' book open at the same time as the 'conditional' book. I considered this because I was getting another problem:
1. Open both book files.
2. Open all files in the 'conditional' book (i.e. a subset).
3. Page through the files in the conditional book to check pagination (due to problems above).
What happens is Frame asks if I want to open 'the next file in the book'. No - I already have all the files I need open, but Frame assumes I'm using the 'master' book, not the 'conditional' book. Bizarrely, in a previous installation (before TCS2) I was also getting pages that would be hidden after updating - they existed in a file, but I couldn't turn the page to see them! I forget how I solved that one, but I suspect it was part of the same problem. They were always the last page in a file.
In fact, after my initia euphoria, I discovered that only having one book file open did not solve my pagination problems - it was updating for a second time that had solved them (sometimes). I haven't tested this exhaustively (sometimes, manually repaginating means I actually get my work done instead of fuming over what I think should be happening but isn't!). I have a bug logged with Adobe support, but I suspect I will have to reinstall Frame if I take their back-to-first-principles solutions. No thanks. I lost faith in tech support a long time ago.
Hope I haven't muddied the waters too much with my extra explanations. I was trying to keep it simple first time around...
Regards,
Martin

Pdfmaker changes my pagination from my Word 2007 document

When I use pdfmaker in Word 2007 it changes the pagination from my Word document. For example, the first page of my document ends up being 2 pages when I convert the file (text shifts). If I just do file > print > Adobe PDF, the file looks exactly like the Word document. The problem with that though is I need my table of contents linked and then I have to do that manually. I've set my default printer to Adobe PDF, but it still doesn't make a difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What version and update of Acrobat? It might be a simple update of Acrobat will do the trick. I am not why PDF Maker would be different, but PDF Maker is no longer a preprocessor for the Adobe PDF printer with AA9. Thus there may indeed be an issue -- probably related to the link embedding. You might try unchecking all of the options in PDF Maker and seeing if you get a good result. If so, then put things back in until it breaks. Not the best solution, but maybe a useful workaround.

Pagination changes when creating PDF from FM file

Using Structured FM 7.2p158, Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1.3. I have updated a chapter with a graphic and want to send a specific page to a colleague. Tried to print the individual page to a file, then distill that print file to a PDF file; Distiller flushed it, whether I used the Acrobat PDF printer or my regular printer.
Next tried printing the entire chapter, which works, but the PDF pagination is changed from the original FM file. Tried setting to "Standard" and "High Quality Print" but still get the same result.
Any suggestions, please?
Thanks,
Cheryl

Cheryl Dwyer wrote:
Tried to print the individual page to a file, then distill that print file to a PDF file; Distiller flushed it, whether I used the Acrobat PDF printer or my regular printer.
Cheryl,
You should only be using the AdobePDF printer instance when working on FM files. If you changed to a different printer and created output using that to send to Distiller, then there can be a number of issues, especially if you've somehow used the printer fonts (you may have substituion enabled in the printer driver giving you different metrics). The SetPrint utility from Sundorne <http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm> will ensure that your default printer in FM is always the AdobePDF. Note: you can still manually switch in FM if you need to directly output hardcopy to your system printer.
If Distiller "flushed" your output, then there should have been a log file generated that specifies what the error was. This might help provide some solution to your original problem.
The joboptions settings in Distiller wouldn't be creating the reflows that you're seeing. It's probably one of the fonts, printer instance, graphic size (dimension/scale) that caused your problem.

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