RTL language support

Question

Regarding Right-To-Left language support: While building a report, I would like to set the breaks list box to "First and Second Columns", but Apex assumes that column order starts from the left. In the case of Hebrew, Arabic, etc, column order begins from the right. In order to use the automatic breaking and summing features I have to order my columns from left to right and the users don't like it.
Do I have any options here?
David

Answer 1

Hello David,
Apex assumes that column order starts from the leftApex assumes the order of columns as it appears in the report column attribute list. The first column will be the first column on that list, the second will be the next row on the list etc. This order has nothing to do with your page orientation.
Do I have any options here?Yes. You should set your page orientation to be RTL, and continue to work naturally with your report builder - http://i3.tinypic.com/wlrdsj.png and http://i3.tinypic.com/wlre3k.png .
If you need to do that on a specific page, you can use the following on your page HTML Header:
<style type="text/css">
body {direction:rtl !important;}
</style>You can see a page example here: http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=22814:50
If you need to reverse your entire application to be RTL, the best and easiest solution will be to add the "direction" attribute to the "body" selector in your application CSS file. That will automatically reverse the orientation of all your application pages.
Hope this can help,
Arie.