Run_report_object error in 6i, help!

Question

hi,
original code used to run the report:
Run_Product(REPORTS, report_name, SYNCHRONOUS, RUNTIME, FILESYSTEM, pl_id, NULL);
changed to:      
repid := find_report_object('report_name');
set_report_object_property(repid,report_comm_mode,SYNCHRONOUS);
set_report_object_property(repid,report_execution_mode,RUNTIME);
     set_report_object_property(repid,report_desname,'NULL');
     set_report_object_property(repid,report_desformat,'HTML');
     set_report_object_property(repid,report_destype,'SCREEN');
v_rep := RUN_REPORT_OBJECT(repid,pl_id);
When I run the report, I get this message "Cannot find report: Invalid ID", followed by another message "argument 1 to built-in Run_report_object can not be null". Can anyone help me??

Answer 1

The Report Object you create in Forms Builder has no link yet to the actual rep file. In the Report Object properties you can set the filename, which is the name of the actual rep file you are going to run.
However, you can leave this property blank and specify it in your trigger. This way you can use the Report Object to run more than one rep file. In the next example I have created a Report Object test, and in the trigger I specify that I want to run rep file test1 (assuming it's in the reports60_path):
declare
  repid  report_object;
  v_rep  varchar2(100);
begin
  repid := find_report_object('test');
  set_report_object_property(repid,report_filename,'test1');
  set_report_object_property(repid,report_other,'dept_id=10');
  v_rep := RUN_REPORT_OBJECT(repid);
end;