Oracle Application Express 3.1 was released a few days ago, you can download the latest release here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/download.html
Many of you have probably already heard of or even tried out the new interactive report regions. If you haven’t heard about this new region type yet, I’d recommend starting with the brief introduction which can be found here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/irrs.html
In addition to interactive report regions, there have been numerous other enhancements, and one of my focus areas were the enhancements to report printing. The two main enhancements in this area are support for multiple SQL source statements for report queries, allowing to combine several reports or combinations of reports and charts in a single print document, and additionally, the introduction of a PL/SQL print API. I will cover these enhancements and some of the other changes on my Blog in the coming weeks. For now, I’d like to point out the 3.1 new features application, which showcases some of the printing enhancements along with interactive reports and other 3.1 new features:
3 comments:
Hi Marc,
The improvements on the reporting side are really nice!
Thanks a lot,
Dimitri
Hello Marc,
The latest enhancements in the printing engine (starting with version 3.0) are indeed very impressive, but more important than that, they are very useful, both to the developers and the end user.
You mentioned a PL/SQL print API. Is it documented anywhere? Is it something like the PL/PDF product?
Thanks and regards,
Arie.
Thanks both for your comments. To clarify: the PL/SQL Print API allows you to programmatically interface with your selected print server. So basically we expose the underlying interface that’s used for report region printing, and report query printing. It’s particularly useful if you want to process the print document / PDF on the server, store the file in a table, send per email, etc. It’s documented in the user guide, will post more on this on my blog.
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