Reporting on a Multi-Select list field X:Y:Z

I'm sure someone must have come across this problem but I can't find a reference to it on the forum.
PROBLEM
I have a data entry form with multi-select lists. Users choose a number of display values and the return values are stored in the field in the format
20:30:50
When I create an SQL report on a row, there is no option to Display the column as a "multi-select list" like there is with a standard List of Values.
How do I report the display lookup values rather than the return code?
Is it possible to display the selected values in a report for example
red
orange JOHN 10-JAN-07
green
red
orange MARY 12-FEB-07
orange
green MARK 13-JUL-07
regards
Paul P

Paul,
I have several examples on this topic:
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:87
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:84
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:75
Basically, you will need to create a table out of your colon separated values and then
join this table with other tables to be able to display it however you want.
What just comes to my mind is that Dietmar presented a nice workarround for a similar
problem here:
Nested report howto?
Denes Kubicek

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The query should return all records.
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txtEnd: text box, formatted as a date.
lbxMulti: multi-select list box.
cmdOpenReport: command button used to open the report.
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Scott
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We have multi select list box on one of the info path forms. We have placed on button on this form. If user clicks on this button we want to select some of the values in Multi select list box (check box).
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Thanks.
Regards,
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From your description, you would like to check items in a multi-selection box when a button is clicked.
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http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/programmatically-select-all-items-multi-select-list-box.htm
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InfoPath Library - Form A
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My mail id is [email protected]

Some years ago I wrote (using Forms6i) utility MSLOV for such purposes, and even wrote an article about using it, but, of course, in Russian :-)
I successfully use it in my Web Forms6i project and also test it in C-S Forms6i and Forms9i.
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It will be nice to hear your comments.
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At the end of article there is a link to mslov.zip. Get it.
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Run demo forms: EMP_DEMO.fmb, ORD_DEMO.fmb and see how it works.
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IF fp_mslov.show_lov (
   label_in => 'first_name || '' '' || last_name',
   id_in => 'empno'
In some cases you need to return more that one column.
You can specify up to five additional columns for such purposes.
For example, you want to return not only EMPNO, but also SAL and COMM columns:
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   col2_in => 'comm'
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From which table we must query?
How to order by or specify some conditions(Where clause)?
Where the place for GROUP BY?
For all these questions you must use from_clause_in parameter.
In our example we will query emp table and want order by salary in descending
order:
IF fp_mslov.show_lov (
   from_clause_in => 'FROM emp ORDER BY sal DESC',
Parameter title_in to fp_mslov.show_lov is a self documented.
This is a title for MSLOV dialog.
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IF fp_mslov.show_lov (
   label_in => 'first_name || '' '' || last_name',
   id_in => 'empno',
   col1_in => 'sal',
   col2_in => 'comm'
   col3_in => 'sal + NVL(comm, 0)',
   from_clause_in => 'FROM emp ORDER BY sal DESC',
   title_in => 'Select employees'
THEN
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FALSE if user press CANCEL (similar to SHOW_LOV builtin).
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I store it in global record group.
But to work with this record group, you can use fp_mslov package, which
provide desired API for this purpose.
At first, you need to declare a variable of FP_MSLOV.OUT_RECORD_TYPE type.
Actually this is a record type declared in fp_mslov package specification.
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LOOP
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the
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FOR i IN 1 .. fp_mslov.rowcount
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   message('Comm: ' || returned_rec.col2);
   message('Sal+Comm: ' || returned_rec.col3);
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So if you need, for example, a date you need explicitly convert it to char when
invoking
fp_mslov.show_lov and then (after fp_mslov.get_row) convert it to date with the
same format mask.
For example:
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To clear memory structures which used by global record group and others
variables,
you need to use fp_mslov.clear procedure.
And now all together:
DECLARE
   returned_rec FP_MSLOV.OUT_RECORD_TYPE;
BEGIN
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      label_in => 'first_name || '' '' || last_name',
      id_in => 'empno',
      col1_in => 'sal',
      col2_in => 'comm'
      col3_in => 'sal + NVL(comm, 0)',
      from_clause_in => 'FROM emp ORDER BY sal DESC',
      title_in => 'Select employees'
   THEN
      FOR i IN 1 .. fp_mslov.rowcount
      LOOP
         returned_rec := fp_mslov.get_row(i);
         message('Empno: ' || returned_rec.id);
         message('Sal: ' || returned_rec.col1);
         message('Comm: ' || returned_rec.col2);
         message('Sal+Comm: ' || returned_rec.col3);
      END LOOP;
   ELSE
      NULL; -- User press Cancel
   END IF;
   fp_mslov.clear;
END;

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We upgraded from BiseSEone (10.1.3.2) to 10.1.3.4 (using BI EE). One of the features we were longing for was the improved multi-select list in the dashboard prompts (with a efficient search support). But after the Installation the multi-select list doesn't work at all. There are no data offered and the frames are missing. What could be go wrong here ? There were no problems during the installation. I told the installation to keep the configurations.
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regards
Thomas
Edited by: tdombrow10 on Jun 7, 2009 10:04 PM

unfortuantely(i beleive i had the same problem)
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i hope i helped....
http://greekoraclebi.blogspot.com/
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In one of my form i want to put 2 multi selection lists, Like user selecting data from one list and when he clicks button the selected items from the first list moves to the second list. user should also be able to doubl click and select the items indivisually. Similary the other list should also behave in the same way.
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Kind Regards,
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[email protected]

Check the standard Forms 6i features and benefits demos for such a sample. You can download the code from the samples section of OTN.

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l_val varchar2(100);
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FROM table
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UNION
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FROM DUAL
ORDER BY 1
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htp.prn('<option value="' || rec.ID || '">' || rec.NAME
|| '</option>');
END LOOP;
htp.prn('</select>');
END;
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Somehow this did not have the same results. Eventhough the refcursor gave back the same data which I tested by logging the values of the pl/sql table just before the htp.prn command, the htp.prn did not return the values.
Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a difference between the for loop in this code and looping through a self defined pl/sql table?
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