Standard Report & Image Column

Question

Hi everybody,
I have a standard report for employees in this report there is an image column displaying the employee photo.
Of course if there is no image in the database for the employee the report won't display anything.
What I want is that if the image column is NULL the report will display a standard NO_PHOTO.JPG image for this employee.. is this possible??
My select statment is simple:
select
       "EMP_ID",
       "EMP_FIRST_NAME",
       "EMP_SECOND_NAME",
       "EMP_FAMILY_NAME",
       dbms_lob.getlength("EMP_PHOTO") "EMP_PHOTO"
from   "T_EMPLOYEE"

Answer 1

One method is to use a Dynamic Action to insert the default image when there isn't one in the report. This avoids having to modify the report query or attributes.
h4. When
Event: After Refresh
Selection Type: Region
Region: <your report region>
h4. True Action
Action: Execute JavaScript Code
Fire On Page Load: Yes
Code:
$('#emp-report td[headers="PHOTO"]')
  .contents()
  .filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType === 3; // report cell contents is a text node, not an img element
  .replaceWith('<img src="&WORKSPACE_IMAGES.NO_PHOTO.jpg" alt="No photo">');Another is to put the logic in the query and get the image source programatically:
select
       "EMP_ID",
       "EMP_FIRST_NAME",
       "EMP_SECOND_NAME",
       "EMP_FAMILY_NAME",
          '<img src="' || nvl2(photo, apex_util.get_blob_file_src('P2_PHOTO_FILE', employee_id), '&WORKSPACE_IMAGES.NO_PHOTO.jpg')
       || '" alt="' || nvl2(photo,  "EMP_FIRST_NAME" || ' ' || "EMP_FAMILY_NAME", 'no photo') || '">' "EMP_PHOTO"
from   "T_EMPLOYEE"Where <tt>P2_PHOTO_FILE</tt> is the file browser item used to upload the photos.
The Display As column attribute for the EMP_PHOTO column must be changed to Standard Report Column when using this method.