Our users have requested some additional functionality in interactive grids, which to my knowledge, it does not seem available out of the box, or we might need additional plugins or I'm missing something. Please advise:
Can I disable the users from resizing column widths, that is, they cannot increase or decrease the column widths?
Enable Complex Filters to the users, such as, make a search for particular words in a column. For example look for word 'Joe' OR 'Peter' OR 'Mary' in a particular column.
Prompt the user with a message for confirmation when deleting a row.
I looked at the new version of APEX (18.1) but it does not mention any of these functionalities. Any ideas are appreciated.
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I need to have a BI Dashboard where the columns(eg, Brand) or group of columns ( eg, Company, Company site) have to hide/show in all analysis of dashboard based on check box selections with Brand and Company respectively. I am able to pass the column header and formula based on selection through Presentation Variable in Prompts, but stuck with hiding columns when the respective check box in unchecked. Note than I'm using OACv5.8.
Thanks in advance for any help on how to achieve/proceed further.
Why don't you use standard, out-of-the-box functionality like column selectors or show/hide sections?
Instead pf playing with presentation variables and trying to fiddle around.
I've used them both, but I can't seem to find any advantage to Report vs Grid.
Grid gives the developer much more options and flexibility, and I didn't find any place that really compares pros and cons for each.
Any Reason to use Report over Grid?
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I developed a set of applications in APEX from 5.1 to 19c and I'd like both, IG and Reports, however I use them in different scenarios:
Obviously if you want a IG for manipulation of data, then IG is your only option.
If you want a Report, but you want to give the user endless options with it like download the content in csv, apply filters, create rules with the data visualisation like applying colours to rows that match different criteria. Then IG is your option
If the report is static and you don't want any interaction on it, then use Report, it is much better for this scenario.
Hope it helps!
I use
reports for reporting purposes - let users view data
interactive grids to view data in a grid, along with possibility to edit existing values or add new rows right here
Although you can make both do what the "other" does (with more or less effort), their "natural" roles are as I previously said. To me, at least.
OK I found one big advantage to working with Interactive Report, when working with Files/Images.
Grid does not contain "Download BLOB" nor "Display Image" options in types, which makes it really hard to work with, and creating many compatibility problems.
I've wasted 2 days trying to work with files in Grid but still failed, while in Report I managed to do that in a couple of hours and it works.
For all other types, I guess Grid is better.
I am using Oracle Business Intelligence. For my analysis, I want to add a filter to it so that user can type in textfield and then the data related to input in textfield is displayed. Table prompts only suggest drop-down list, while column prompts do what I want but they appear before I see the analysis. I want to filter when I have the analysis on the screen.
While we did that kind of work in BI publisher using data models and reports, it was possible to run the report and give the parameters to get the desired data. How can I do this in the analysis? Is there something similar to parameters or list of values that are in BI Publisher?
Sure. That's normal prompt functionality. Just click on the column prompt options and choose to display the prompt as a free text field and allow user to enter their own values instead of choosing from the dropdown.
I have a section that contains a subform ( containing 3 editable fields for the user ).
Then I have an embedded view categorized having two actions: Add and Trash.
What i want to do: After the user complete the 3 fields and then press Add, the first row in the embedded view will appear. ( This easy thing I did ). But then after the first click on Add, I want that all the 3 fields to be refreshed, all of them to have as their value: "".
After, if the user wants to add another row into the embedded view (with different values), in my case it is overwrited on the 1st row. I want to be separate rows in order.
I tried something with #Command(ViewRefreshFields) into the Add action code but I didn't make it to work. Please help, J. U.
Jazir, I'm guessing that you also go by the names "Florin G Mihalache", "Josh Mitchell" and "Yveniss Ltoreau", and I've been following the development of your application along with many other professional Notes developers.
I really think you need to go back to the very first basics, and work out the difference between forms, subforms, documents, views, embedded views, and other important components of Lotus Notes databases.
I strongly suspect that for a couple of weeks you have been trying to use a form to create other documents, via a subform, to be displayed in an embedded view in that form, when what you should be using is just a view, and documents. Perhaps you might need to use pages, outlines and framesets. It is very important that you understand these basic concepts before confusing the people who have tried to help you, to whom you may have lied.
I have voted your question down, not just because you have shown a lack of research, but because you appear to keep switching ID when people lose patience with you. I will undo that vote if I become convinced that you are not Florin.
The documents displayed in an embedded view are controlled by the view's selection formula. You haven't shown that. You haven't shown your code in the Add button. You haven't shown what properties you have set on the embedded view -- e.g., show single category. So you're not giving us quite enough info to diagnose your problem and help you.
But in general, I think that if you want to control the order of insertion of individual documents into an embedded list, perhaps using an embedded folder would be a better idea than an embedded view.
I have a list of brand names for a particular product in the db. I can either display it on the screen using a drop down or and auto-suggest textbox.
I love the user experience of the auto-suggest textbox. But, is it right to use it here?
I would also want to know the best scenario to use it?
I think it depends on the number of items you need to display. If there are only a few, it gives hardly any advantage. But when there are many items, you can use it to filter out a lot of items, until there are only a few left. This makes finding the right item easier.
The Auto-Suggest textbox should be used when the user will be entering in a new piece of data MOST of the time... and the dropdown box should be used when the user will be entering repeated data MOST of the time.
Can you offer both? One of the products I worked on had a drop down list of brand names but allowed the user to type free text as well. The drop down list would narrow as you typed characters.
EDIT:
This was using Java: JComboBox.setEditable(true) with some additional fiddling if I remember right.