Substitution in Custom XML section of a chart

Hello,
I am trying to do a substitution inside of "Custom XML" section of a "Resource Gantt" chart using &P5_GANTT_XML. (dot at the end - thanks fac586)
The substitution doesn't work! In the "Show XML" I can see null instead of expected value.
Seems this substitution is working in this demo http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=36648:60:3572101667083478::NO:::
Any idea?
Regards,
Gabriel
DB: 11.2.0.1.0 EE
Apex: 4.0.2
Server: Solaris 10 Sparc
Client: XP SP3
Browser: Firefox 3.6.13
Flash player: updated to latest version
Edited by: gabosu on Jan 5, 2011 11:07 AM
Edited by: gabosu on Jan 5, 2011 11:10 AM

In the thread
Re: Page item value in Flash chart XML
dated NOV-2007
Patrick Wolf wrote:
there seems to be something strange going on with the substitution of page items in the Custom XML. I already noticed that several weeks ago, but didn't pay much attention to the problem.
Have a look at the following application at http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=15535:5
username: demo
pwd: patricks_demo_workspace
It has a page item P5_TEST with a static assignment of "this is a x label". Everywhere where I reference it with &P5_TEST. or :P5_TEST during the rendering of the page the correct value is substituted as you can see on the example page.
Only the flash charts seems to use a NULL value! I have done a
...x_axis name="before-&P5_TEST.-after" smart="yes"... in the Custom XML.
Why is there this different behavior of substitution? Or do I miss something?
I made the same behavior - the substitution is triggering somehow but the result is NULL.
Example:
into Custom XML
<test>start-&P5_GANTT_XML.-end</test>
is returning
<test>start--end</test>
and
in the same time &P5_GANTT_XML. is working fine into the title of the region.
Edited by: gabosu on Jan 5, 2011 12:21 PM

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