User defined column heading

Question

Hello Every1,
The following is a peice of code produces a report. At the moment the heading of the column is GBCCCL15/16_CSAHEPA because it has been hard coded that way. However what i would like instead, is the heading of the column to be what ever the user selects. What i mean by this is, what ever the user chooses to search in the text fields will then be displayed as the column heading when the report is exicuted.
select schema_name,
max(GBCCCL1516_CSAHEPA) as "GBCCCL15/16_CSAHEPA"
from     
     select     schema_name, created_time,
     case when
          server_name||'_'||db_name='GBCCCL15/16_CSAHEPA'
          then DB_PATCH_NUMBER||'v'||VERSION_NUMBER else null end GBCCCL1516_CSAHEPA
from      version_control
group by schema_name
order by SCHEMA_NAME
Does anyone know how to get this done?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
Headings can be created dynamically. Change the headings type to PL/SQL. You then see a "Function returning colon delimited headings" setting - enter in something like:
DECLARE
v_headings VARCHAR2(2000);
BEGIN
  v_headings := '';
  SELECT USER_HEADING INTO v_HEADINGS FROM TABLEX;
  RETURN v_headings;
END;The string returned must be a colon-delimited string with one value for each column. eg:
COL1:COL2:COL3Andy