Report Engine enhancements in Future Apex version considrations.

Hi Apex Team,
Just want to stressed and support Arie's point below which he brought up in another thread:
/Quote
There are other areas that IMHO needs the attention of the team, much much more then the UI.
First and foremost, the report engine.
Everyone following this forums knows that printing issues are the least to be answered and solved.
Printing PDF is great, but the content of the reports are much more important.
Report break issues, master details report, and many others are very important issues that need to be address.
The BI publisher is a great tool, but it’s a very expensive one (corporate level).
More simple, built in solutions for hard copy reports (not PDF but simple hard copy printing) is much more important,
IMHO, then almost anything else on the enhancement request list.
Arie Geller
Unquote/
Thanks

Hi,
We are in the midst of migrating our applications from VB/VC to Apex and in our applications, reports account for :
1. User - 30% - 50% of overall application's functionalities in their daily usage.
            This requires mostly hard copy with report's breaks, master details reports.
2. Supervisory / Middle Management - 40% to 70%.
                                      Prefer 20% to 30% of reports in PDF.
3.Top Level Management - 70% to 95%.
                          Prefer most reports in PDF with flash charts where applicable.
Majority of our customers are not considering BI for PDF as costs are too high,
fortunately Apex has other alternatives which we are reviewing currently.
Regards
Zack

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Apex version: 3.1
Edited by: mario_romero77 on Jun 8, 2012 10:06 AM

mario_romero77 wrote:
I created a report template based on columns of my reportAlways post code wrapped in <tt>\...\</tt> tags to prevent the forum software mangling it.
My query report is:
SELECT MEM_NAS ID, MEM_NOM NAME, MEM_DATE_NAIS BIRTH
FROM ACMT_MEMBRE; My customized report template have this Row Template definition:
<tr onclick="redirect('f?p=&APP_ID.:6:&SESSION.:::6:P6_NAS:#ID#');">
<td #ALIGNMENT# class="t16data_edit">#NAME#</td>
<td #ALIGNMENT# class="t16data_edit">#BIRTH#</td>
</tr>
Is the report template definitely of type Named Column (row template) (defined on App Builder page 4000:4654) and not Generic Columns (column template) (defined on page 400:258)?
Note that the <tt>#ALIGNMENT#</tt> substitution string is not supported in named column templates. Set column alignment explicitly using HTML attributes in the template, or use CSS.
This would redirect to the page 6 when user click anywhere on a row but it doesn’t work.
I have this error message:
CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');"> CHECK$01');">
{code}Where do you see this? It looks like there's a mismatch between the report columns returned by the query and those referenced in the report template. Or the data contains unsafe HTML characters that aren't being escaped.
Yes, my report query has a column called ID and it's set as Hidden. This could be the problem. In a report based on a named column template any columns referenced in the template must be +shown+ in the report, even if (as in this case) the column value is not visible to the user: the positioning of the <tt>#ID#</tt> column placeholder in the <tt>onclick</tt> attribute rather than in a table cell is what makes it "hidden". *The Show checkbox for the ID column must be checked.*
From the gobbledygook being generated it looks like there could be a row selector checkbox column in this report as well? Named column row templates must include substitution placeholders for every shown column. It's also advisable to keep the columns in the same order in the SQL, report column attributes and row template.
Something like
{code}
<tr onclick="redirect('f?p=&APP_ID.:6:&SESSION.:::6:P6_NAS:#ID#');">
<td class="t16data_edit">#CHECK$01#</td>
<td class="t16data_edit">#NAME#</td>
<td class="t16data_edit">#BIRTH#</td>
</tr>
{code}
I realized that problem is caused by #ID# because if I hardcode this ID, it works.
How can my report template get the “ID” from my query report ?If the above doesn't help then the easiest way to troubleshoot this would be for you to upload the app to apex.oracle.com and post guest developer credentials for the workspace so we can see the whole thing: template, SQL, and report attributes. Otherwise we're likely to and up with a lot of tedious to and fro here posting bits of code and attribute values.

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