Shared Components APEX Report Query and Layout

Does anyone know how to call the report query and layout from the Shared components section from a page within the application?

mtbdude40 wrote:
What I need is this: The ability to create a PDF report with a custom header defining the data (example - select * from emp where deptno = :deptno and the header includes the department name).
I use this white paper as my source: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/learnmore/custom-pdf-reports-1953918.pdf
You need to build and use a Shared Resource -> Report Queries.
The Report Query will have two queries associated with it (see below).
one query will be for the header information, the other will be for the data.
use the "download" of the "xml data" as your source for Altova/other tools.
If you add/remove/change queries, You'll have to redo your report (from scratch) as that changes the XML Schema required. (at least, with my experience)
Once you get the hang of it, 2x queries is easy (Header, data)
I've experimented with 3x queries (header, master,details) but have been unsuccessful. I have some ideas though ("link" master->detail info via XPath stuff within Altova) but haven't gotten around to testing it.
If you want to run the report for multiple departments....That might require some finesse.
Unfortunately, the Source of the Queries can't be a scalar SQL that returns 1 row of 1 column of data type XMLType....
MK

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John
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Edited by: bhenderson on Feb 1, 2012 8:22 AM

Thanks for your response.
There are 12 separate queries in the report query. Each one is in a separate box on the report queries screen.
I don't know how to post an image here, but I will try to describe it:
The first query selects several fields relating to :P5_WIP_ENTITY_ID, which is a Work order. This query is header information about the job and should only return one row.
The other queries get other information relating to :P5_WIP_ENTITY_ID, like part numbers that may have been issued to that job, purchases made for that job and so on. These queries may return more than one row or may not return anything.
I have created the queries in the order that I want them to display on the form, however, when the XML is generated, ROWSET1 may have the data from the Header Query one time, then the next time it may have data from the purchase query. In other words, it does not display the data in the order that the queries appear on the report query page, and it seems to reorder the output at random.
I have looked everywhere I could think of, but there doesn't seem to be any way of connecting or relating the separate queries. I also tried doing separate queries in one box and joining them, but there is a limit of 60 data items you can select from one query box.
Edited by: bhenderson on Feb 3, 2012 10:01 AM

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