Report Template, Column Template, Column Template Condition

Question

I have a template, Standard Revenue from Standard, I have cloned for a Classic report.
Application ###>Shared Componets>Templates>Edit Report Template
Column Template 1 looks like:
<td#ALIGNMENT# headers="#COLUMN_HEADER_NAME#" class="t1data_revenue">#COLUMN_VALUE#</td>
I have set Column Template 1 Condition to:
"Use based on PL/SQL expresiion"
I have tried several expression in "Column Template 1 Expression" - last one is:
case
when #COLNUM# <= 2 then false
when #COLUMN_VALUE# < 0 then true
else false
end case;
I am trying to use the value in "Column Template 2" when to value of the #COLUMN_VALUE# < 0
where "Column Template 2" is :
<td#ALIGNMENT# headers="#COLUMN_HEADER_NAME#" class="t1data_revenue_negative">#COLUMN_VALUE#</td>
I get the following error when I run the page:
ORA-01403: no data found
and
ERR-1025 Error processing PLSQL expression. case when #COLNUM# <= 2 then false when #COLUMN_VALUE# < 0 then true else false end case;
Any help will be appreciated.
thank you,
jwm

Answer 1

Hi,
That's actually easier. See: [http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=267:60]
The SQL for both reports is:
SELECT EMPNO, ENAME, NVL(SAL,0) SAL, NVL(COMM,0) COMM
FROM EMP
ORDER BY EMPNOThe SAL and COMM columns have been formatted using:
999G999G999G999G990D00For the Row Template, the Row Template 1 setting contains an empty space (you have to have something in there otherwise Apex adds back in a default row containing five cells!). The condition for this is:
TO_NUMBER('#COMM#','999G999G999G999G990D00') < 100The template will see the data as a string, so we use the same number format to convert that string back into a number and compare this to 100. If we didn't use formatting on the numbers and we are sure that every row contained a number (hence the use of NVL()), then you could use:
#COMM# < 100Row Template 2 contains the format for the rows that need displaying:
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td class="t18Data"&gt;#1#&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="t18Data"&gt;#2#&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="t18Data" style="text-align:right"&gt;#3#&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="t18Data" style="text-align:right"&gt;#4#&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;and is unconditional.
The only other settings on the Row Template are the Before Rows:
&lt;table class="t18Standard" style="border-collapse:collapse; border:1px solid black;"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;th class="t18ReportHeader"&gt;Empno&lt;/th&gt;
  &lt;th class="t18ReportHeader"&gt;Ename&lt;/th&gt;
  &lt;th class="t18ReportHeader" style="text-align:right"&gt;Sal&lt;/th&gt;
  &lt;th class="t18ReportHeader" style="text-align:right"&gt;Comm&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;and After Rows:
&lt;/table&gt;Of course, you will note that the record counters at the bottom still show the number of records in both reports - as the SQL still outputs the same data, this doesn't change.
Andy