Send a Report as attachment by Email

Question

Hello,
I'm a rookie in Apex. I read a lot of thread based on how to send a email from an Application.
it seems easy to create the body of the email with a SELECT query. I'm using APEX_MAIL.SEND().
I would like to now if it's possible to send a report from the page as an attachment to an Email?
Maybe with something like create a csv file from the SELECT of the form and then attach it to the Email??
If somebody have an idea?
Thanks
Fred

Answer 1

Hello Tony,
Yes, I would like first to created a simple file as 'column a';'column b';'column c'.
I had a look on the link you put. Very interesting and hepfull. But I still have one problem and I tryed to find informations about on the web without good results.
Now, I'm able to create a file into a BLOB using the function get_report() showned in your link.
To attach the file to an Email. I will use APEX_MAIL.ADD_ATTACHMENT().
Here is the code example:
DECLARE
l_id number;
l_body CLOB;
s varchar2(200) := 'this is some info';
l_file BLOB;
BEGIN
l_file := get_report('SELECT * FROM MyTable');
l_body := 'Test in the APEX_MAIL.'||utl_tcp.crlf||'This is my first test to test the mail functionnality.'||utl_tcp.crlf||utl_tcp.crlf;
l_body := l_body ||' Fred'||utl_tcp.crlf;
l_id := apex_mail.send(
p_to => '[email protected]',
p_from => '[email protected]',
p_body => l_body,
p_subj => 'APEX_MAIL Package - Plain Text message');
apex_mail.add_attachment(
p_mail_id => l_id,
p_attachment => l_file,
p_filename => 'test.csv');
apex_mail.push_queue();
END;
But a line is missing in the attachment process ===> p_mime_type => xxxx.
I don't know how to define the mime_type.
Could you help me?
Thanks and Regards,
Fred
Edited by: FerdoD on 11 sept. 2009 01:56