Use of report's customization form

Can I add a report's customization form to a content area as an application component?
I mean, I would like to use a customization form in a content area style (with the same nav bar, with the same banners and layout). It's a little inconvinience that all of my forms and reports are displayed in content area forms, except ones that need customization form.
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the hint, because I have the same task to perform (display customization form first).
I created a PL/SQL item, in Primary Item Attributes I included the PL/SQL code:
begin
PORTAL30.ARTICLE_SELECT_FORM.show_parms;
end;
In the PL/SQL Execute Options, I selected "Public (PORTAL30_PUBLIC)". The PL/SQL item works fine as long as I'm logged on as the PORTAL30 user. When I log on as an end-user, WWV-12600 appeares (insufficient privileges).
What exactly do I have to grant - and where? Balaji said "grant execute on this package to public" - could you please tell me where and how to do this (on database level or within Portal)?
Thanks in advance for any help.

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I am using Portal 3.0 with the Oracle 9iAS. I have created a reportA with a column named INDT. The value in this column is linked to the customization report of another reportB. reportB has a bind variable called :B_INDT, created to receive the INDT value from the link
(FROM SCHEMA.TABLE
....WHERE
INDT = :B_INDT)
When I edit this link in reportA, the parameter does not appear. I only get User parameters and System parameters fields. I am trying to pass the INDT value that is clicked on in reportA through the link to the biNd variable field, :B_INDT, in the customization form of reportB to retrieve all records with that INDT value.

Hi,
When you link to a custmization form you will not be able to link to the bind variable. You can link to a bind variable only when you use the component and not the component's customization form.
You can link to the component and map the bind variable and I think your requirement can be achieved.
Thanks,
Sharmila

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I have an application that is using a report with a form, and when I click EDIT on the report column, it takes me to the form page which should be populated with all the data from the previous report row.
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Thanks for the reply. I have the columns set up just as you have suggested. I even created a new report with form wizard and tried to update those two questionable columns.
If the columns are null, and I add values, they save. But then when I go back and update the record, but different columns, it nulls out the two I am talking about. I am wondering if a trigger is out there someplace that is causing them to get nulled out.
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How to remove "Query Options" from customization form

Oracle Portal 3.0.9
Urgent
Help Please

Well, it could work...
If the source (browser -> view source) of the customization form contains something like "<FONT CLASS="OraHeaderSub"><NOBR>Query Options" then you could add the following code in the "Report and Customization Form Text" section, Header Text:
<style type="text/css">
.OraHeaderSub
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 2pt;
color: #XXXXXX;
</style>
where XXXXXX is a color that matches that of the background. Then, you should change the image /images/beigepx.gif for an identical one with your background color.
Regards
Daniel

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My report includes two parameters which are set by the user using dynamic LOVs in the customization form. The report used to only have one parameter and this worked fine. After including the second one only one of the LOVs work as they should. The second one doesn't trigger a value to be sent to the report. Working separately the second parameter/LOV also works as it should.
The code:
SELECT distinct ID, STILLING, F_DATO, STILLING_NAA, DATO
FROM JOBBSOKNADER
WHERE STILLING in :lov_stillinger
union
SELECT distinct A.ID, A.STILLING, A.F_DATO, A.STILLING_NAA, A.DATO
FROM JOBBSOKNADER A, JOBBINT_KOBL B
WHERE A.ID = B.JOBBSOKNADER_ID
AND A.STILLING = '(apen soknad)'
and B.INT_ID in :lov_interessefelt

Hi,
Are you trying to use dependant LOVs i.e second LOV depends on the value selected in the first LOV. If you are trying that, then reports does not support that. You have this facility only in forms.
If I have understood wrong, then please give me the query you used for the LOVs
Thanks,
Sharmila

Customization Form at top populate Report Results at Bottom of Page??

Is it possible to develop a customization form and its report on the same page?
Here is the scenario. We want the customization form on the top of the Portal page, and then we want the results of the query form (the report results) to populate in the bottom of the Portal page. The customer desires this so they can still see what information they queried on to get the specified report results.
Does anyone know a way to do this or has anyone successfully developed it?

The customization form portlet would need to pass the parameter(s) to the other portlet. You may want to check out the parameter passing portlet samples in the PDK. The Smart Web Services Portlets work in a similar way too.
If you want end users to show what their previously set parameters were, the customization portlet should read the previously passed parameters (along with the report portlet) and show them.
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Insert, save, etc.. button's not showed on customize form of QBE report.

Hi,
I've created a QBE report with all button's enabled in the customize form, when testing this with the
provider customize link the button's are shown and I can perform an insert etc...
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except the button's ??? what am I doing wrong ?
Luc De pauw

Hi,
This is because it is the customize of the portlet. The customize of a portlet only supports the Apply, OK and Cancel buttons. Hence the QBE cannot support Insert in the customize. They are the full page options. The customize is to change the parameters of the report that control the output of the report. It cant be used to insert into a table. The Apply and ok do the same the thing that save does. It saves the customizations for the user.
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Sharmila

Hide Bind Variable in the Customization form of a Report

I have a report where I set the bind variable default using a API call. I do not want the user to change the value. How do I keep the text box for the bind variable value from showing????
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Hi,
It is not possible to hide a bind variable from appearing in the customization form. You can run the report directly with the
parameters and not take the user to the customization screen.
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Hi,
I get an error frm-41214:unable to connect to the report server when i am trying to call a report from a form using RUN_REPORT_OBJECT.
My code is as follows:
I have created a simple report using employee table such tht when i give the department number as parameter it should get the corresponding details along with that i also have highlited the system parameters:
DESFORMAT
DESNAME
DESTYPE
also other user parameters as
p_action
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begin
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||:desformat||'&userid='||:p_user_connect||'&server='||:p_servername;
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vc_parameter_form:='<html><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><form method=post action="'
||:P_ACTION||'">'||'<input name="hidden_run_parameters" type=hidden value="'
||vc_hidden_runtime_values||'">'||'<center><p><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td>'
||'<input type=submit></td><td width=15><td><input type=reset></td>'||'</tr></table><p><hr><p>';
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I created a report object in the form with name REPORT6.
-Created a procedure in the form with the following code
PROCEDURE RUN_REPORT_OBJECT_PROC(report_id REPORT_OBJECT,reportserver VARCHAR2,runformat VARCHAR2) IS
report_message VARCHAR2(100);
rep_status VARCHAR2(100);
vc_user_name VARCHAR2(100);
vc_user_password VARCHAR2(100);
vc_user_connect VARCHAR2(100);
vc_connect VARCHAR2(300);
BEGIN
vc_user_name:=get_application_property(username);
vc_user_password:=get_application_property(password);
vc_user_connect:=get_application_property(connect_string);
vc_connect:=vc_user_name||'/'||vc_user_password||'@'||vc_user_connect;
SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id,REPORT_EXECUTION_MODE,BATCH);
SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id,REPORT_COMM_MODE,ASYNCHRONOUS);
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SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id,REPORT_DESFORMAT,runformat);
SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id,REPORT_SERVER,reportserver);
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substr(report_message,instr(report_message,'_',-1)+1)||'?server'
||reportserver,'_blank');
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declare
     repid REPORT_OBJECT;
     repserver VARCHAR2(100);
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BEGIN
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     repserver := 'rep_iitv-1';
     runformat := 'HTML';
     run_report_object_proc(repid,repserver,runformat);
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Regards
Vikas Singhal

Dependant LOVs on Customization form of a report

Portal Version: 3.0.9.8.0
Database Version: 8.1.7.3
Hi
Our problem is that we've created a report component which includes two bind variables. These bind variables are chosen on the customization form through LOVs. The second LOV needs to be dependant on the first. Here's the code of the report and LOVs:
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and C.SYSTEM_ID = A.CPY_SYSTEM_ID
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wwpre_utl.get_path_id: The preference path does not exist: ORACLE.WEBVIEW.PARAMETERS.1088240437
wwpre_utl.get_path_id: The preference path does not exist: ORACLE.WEBVIEW.PARAMETERS.1088240437
wwpre_utl.get_path_id: The preference path does not exist: ORACLE.WEBVIEW.PARAMETERS.1088240437

Hi,
The error is thrown because the lov is not able to substitute the value for the bind variable. The substitution is not happening
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Sharmila

I am currently using FormsCentral to distribute a form created in Acrobat. I need to add an option to one of the drop down fields but do not want to re-distribute the form due to reporting purposes. How can I do this?

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Using elements from input forms to use in reports...can it be done?? XML maybe?

Hi,
I am required to create a large number of input forms. For each form item, there is a heading to describe what the form item collects and also additional descriptive text, such as units of measurements etc.
I intend to create a report that will loop through and display this captured data on a per day basis. As there could be several forms of data multiplied over several days or weeks, this will return a lot of data
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          Data 2
          Data 3 etc...
Day 2
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          Data 2
          Data 3 etc...
Day 3
          Data 1
          Data 2
          Data 3 etc...
etc........
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Database is MySQL
SnakEyez02 wrote:
Ok, let's take this one step at a time. First what database type is this going into? Pointing you in the right direction for that is the best place to start.
>> MySQL
Next when you talk about returning the data to a report, are you using a reporting service or what are you trying to do here?
>> HTML/PHP report created with Dreamweaver with queries to recordset
Depending on what needs to be done, the type of database and the complexity of the data, I have found that simply entering the data into the database and running a query out of a Sharepoint server or even Excel will usually suffice unless there is something in play that we don't know about.
>> Yes i can query the database and use those results, what i also want to use is the extraneous elements, such as headings, descriptive text e.g for an input field that captures temperature, you would have
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I want to know if there is a way of reusing these from my forms into my report by using XML, rather that some onerous checking process to append the text to returned data.
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I'm not sure that I was clear on my other question.
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