Problem in sending Email attachment

Question

Hi all,
I am new to Oracle apex. I want to send email in apex with attchment. i have a send email button on clicking of which the following process will be called
DECLARE
l_id number;
fileName varchar2(50);
v_item blob;
BEGIN
apex_mail.send(
p_to => Receiver email id ,
p_from => Sender email id,
p_subj => 'My Subject',
p_body => 'Test Body',
apex_mail.push_queue();
END;
right now i am able to send email but now dont know how to use -- APEX_MAIL.ADD_ATTACHMENT to send reports as attachments
Here are some queries related to the parameters in APEX_MAIL.ADD_ATTACHMENT:-
1) what to send in parameter ' p_attachment '
2) what to send in parameter ' p_filename'
3)what to send in parameter ' p_mime_type '
my requirement is to send the report displayed in the page to be send as attachment with this email. I am quite confused about these parametersto be sent in APEX_MAIL.ADD_ATTACHMENT.
please provide an example if possible.
Thanks in Advance
Anu
Edited by: user12259335 on Mar 12, 2010 11:55 PM
Edited by: user12259335 on Mar 13, 2010 1:08 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
You need save your report to CLOB if you like send it using APEX_MAIL.ADD_ATTACHMENT.
You can do that e.g. with xml_spreadsheet
http://matzberger.de/oracle/spreadsheet-tut-en.html
Something like this then
DECLARE
  l_cursor NUMBER := dbms_sql.open_cursor;
  v_clob CLOB;
  l_id NUMBER;
BEGIN
  l_id := APEX_MAIL.SEND(
    p_to        => '[email protected]',
    p_from      => '[email protected]',
    p_subj      => 'APEX_MAIL with attachment',
    p_body      => 'Please review the attachment.',
    p_body_html => '<b>Please</b> review the attachment'
  dbms_sql.parse(
    l_cursor ,
    'SELECT * FROM emp',
     dbms_sql.native );
  xml_spreadsheet.abfrage(
    p_cursor    => l_cursor ,
    p_file      => v_clob ,
    p_sheetname => 'emp_report'
  APEX_MAIL.ADD_ATTACHMENT(
    p_mail_id   => l_id,
    p_attachment  => v_clob,
    p_filename    => 'emp_report.xml',
    p_mime_type   => 'text/xml'
  APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE;
  COMMIT;
END;I did not test that code, but it should work.
This is just one way to do it.
Br,Jari