Urgent Request: Help With Websheet Issues

Question

Hello.
This is an urgent request for help. I am currently developing a websheet demo and have run into several puzzling issues.
I am using APEX 4.0.1. My organization will upgrade to 4.0.2 in several months.
Issue 1:
I am trying to create a file annotation to be associated with several rows in a data grid I created. When I browse to the .xls file to be uploaded and then click "Apply", a stripped wait bar appears indicating that the file is being uploaded. Or so I thought. Instead, that stripped bar sits there FOREVER. After 30 minutes waiting for a very simple two-row .xls file (first row is the column headers followed by a row of data - simple integers), I finally clicked the "Cancel" button. The file was not uploaded.
I have repeated this several times, and even closed/re-opened my browser. Same results. Even tried a simple .txt file. Still no good.
I am running IE 8.x I even tried the same thing in FireFox 3.6.1. Same behavior.
Issue 2:
I also created a Note annotation. After entering some simple text (about 10 words) and clicking the "Apply" button, the page displays the following error:
Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:18:44 GMT wwv_flow.show: SIGNATURE (parameter names) MISMATCH VARIABLES IN FORM NOT IN PROCEDURE: F21,F22,F23,F24,F25,F26,F27,F28,F29,F30,F31,F32,F33,F34,F35,F36,F37,F38,F39,F40,F41,F42,F43,F44,F45,F46,F47,F48,F49,F50,F51,F52,F53 NON-DEFAULT VARIABLES IN PROCEDURE NOT IN FORM:
I then click the previous breadcrumb link which take me back to my data grid I then click the pencil "Edit" icon for the row for which this Note is associated and, to my surprise, the Note with my entered text is there. APEX did, in fact, create it. However, not without displaying this error message which I'm sure would be rather intimidating to our end users trying to do this. this same behavior occurs when trying to modify an already existing Note. I receive the same message. However, the modifications were enacted.
As with Issue 1, this same behavior is seen with FireFox as well.
Issue 3:
After saving my Data Grid as an "Alternative Default Report", I see the Note annotation I created associated with the report row. However, when I hover my mouse on the Note icon, all that displays is the first 4 words or so, about 15 characters, followed by a 3-dot ellipsis. The remaining 10+ characaters are hidden. What good is that?
Is there aimit to the number of characaters that can be placed in a Note Annotation? I have not seen this characater limit mentioned anywhere in the online APEX docs. I realize that I probably would not want a PhD disseration placed in a Note, but just 30 or so characaters? That seems awfully skimmpy.
As before, I'm seeing this same strange behavior in FireFox 3.6.1 as with IE 8.x
Issue 4:
When editing text in a Section, I attempt to re-size the text with a larger font size (say, from 10 to 14). I click the "Apply" button, but the resulting text stays the same size. I am unable to re-size the font in a section.
Even more puzzling is that the OBE "Building a Websheet In APEX 4.0" example application (http://st-curriculum.oracle.com/obe/db/apex/r40/websheets/websheets_ll.htm) which takes me step-by-step in creating a websheet app shows that one can do all of the things mentioned in the above three issues. So, then, how is this tutorial able to do all these things but I am not?
Are these issues fixed in the 4.0.2 patch? I checked the online list of bug fixes for this patch and, although several do relate to websheets, none address the above three issues.
As mentioned, I am trying to prepare for this websheet demo and would really appreciate some quick advice or suggestions.
Thank you in advance.
Elie
Edited by: EEG on Jan 2, 2011 3:31 PM

Answer 1

Hi, Christina.
Thanks very much for the info about why we are seeing multiple APEX$ tables sprinkled amongst multiple schemas. I've passed this info to our APEX administrator.
Also, thanks for confirming what I suspected was a bug in the rich text editor. Hopefully this will be addressed soon.
I do understand your comment about not being able to stylize the Title text. Still, I am wondering why I do NOT see the HTML code in my own environment here at work. Yet on apex.oracle.com I see the code. This is why I made the comment in my last post. Seeing this code where there shouldn't be any code surprised me. So, why is this code not showing up for me here?
With respect to my file upload issue, as mentioned in my original post, I am NOT able to upload a quite simple .xls file as a file annotation to be associated with a row in a data grid I had created. However, I AM able to upload this exact same .xls file to a section on a page without problem.
In my websheet app on apex.oracle.com, navigate to Data -> Data Grids, click on the data grid "MAD Data Upload", select the report "2. Symbols Report with Annotations", click the pencil icon next to (I believe) the 2nd row which currentl displays a link, a note, and several tags. Then attempt to upload a simple .xls Excel file. The one I tried has 2 rows, a header row with 5 column headers, and a 2nd row with integer values for those 5 columns. That's it. After browsing to my file and clicking the "Apply" button, I get a stripped progress bar that sits there FOREVER. After about 10 minutes I gave up waiting. I figured that, even over the web, a simple two row Excel file should have been uploaded after ten minutes. My connection is pretty fast. I get no errors. Also there is no file.
One more thing ... Remember my Issue 2 in which I was attempting to modify a previously created Note annotation and received a weird error (see my original post above)? Well, I attempted to do this on apex.oracle.com.
In the same Data Grid row that you navigated to above, scroll to the very bottom and you will see my single Note Annotation. I attempted to modify this. I clicked the "Edit" link, typed in my changes, and clicked "Apply". This time, instead of receiving that weird error message, I received a more intelligent (though still weird) error message:
Not Found
Sorry!The page requested was not found.
And, just as with the truly weird message I would consistently receive in my own environment here at work, the text changes I had made to the Note were, in fact, preserved because when I re-look at my Note Annotation in the Data Grid, the Note does show the changes I had made.
Needless to emphasize, these errors would likely freak out end users who are adding Note Annotations to a Data Grid they had created. After all, these are the intended audience of a websheet app not a developer like me who is used to seeing such weird messages.
Would you know what all this about?
Thanks again for all your patience and sticking with me on this.
Elie