Passing sort as a parameter to Reports from Oracle 9i forms

Question

I'm trying to call a report from 9i forms by passing 13 parameters. One of them is a 'sort' parameter. All the other parameters are passed succesfully to the report and the report also receives them successfully. But 'sort' parameter didn't work. I don't know if the report received it or not. I can see all the parameter values on the browser link of IE. The sort parameter also appears there but doesn't sort the data.
!!!!! Please help me out !!!!
Thank you.

Answer 1

Hello,
Are you still haveing problems witht he sort parameter? If so, I use a lexical parameter as the sort parameter along with an after paramter form trigger. I have found that a bind variable doesn't work. So it maybe that the report is running just fine but the sort parameter is just not working properly due to the bind variable. If you don't have it set up with a lexical paramter, try this:
First get rid of any bind variable with an "ORDER BY" clause. For example, you may have:
select
columnA,
columnB,
columnC,
columnB
from tableA
where
columnA is not null
order by
:sortby
However, replace the order by with:
select
columnA,
columnB,
columnC,
columnB
from tableA
where
columnA is not null
&sortby
Then create another user parameter by clicking the "+" in the object navigater. Call it P_1. Use this parameter as the parameter the users sees. You can create a static list of values that a user can choose to sort by. Say "A", "B","C", and "D".
Then in your after parameter form trigger, put the following code:
function AfterPForm return boolean is
begin
IF :P_1 = 'A' THEN
:sortby := 'Order by columnA';
ELSE IF :P_1 = 'B' THEN
:sortby := 'Order by columnB';
ELSE IF :P_1 = 'C' THEN
:sortby := 'Order by columnC';
ELSE IF :P_1 = 'D' THEN
     :sortby := 'Order by columnD';
     END IF;
END IF;
END IF;
END IF;
return (TRUE);
end;
Hope this helps.
Martin