Reporting through APEX 3.2

I am a DBA and have created an Apex Application 3.2 on a 10.2.0.4 database. I was wondering if there was functionality through the applcation for our users (management) to be able to build their own reports off of the underlying tables. I am thinking there would be a way I can create the relationships between the tables and then they would jus go in and drag and drop what they need.

Hi,
One thing I've found out over the years is that users frequently make a request for some sort of adhoc reporting functionality but usually lack the skills or knowledge to use it effectively and a more skilled user or programmer usually ends up writing all the queries anyway.
As you've become the "report guy", I would investigate using Interactive Reports. With these, you would still have to specify the underlying query, but then the end users still have a large degree of flexibility over layout, filters, breaks, sorts, calculations etc. They can even save defined report layouts.
A feature called websheets that is possibly closer to what you are looking for is being developed for the next version of APEX. You can test it out in an early adopter release. See the APEX home page for details.
Regards
Andre

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