Chapter 16. Interactive Reports

In an earlier chapter, we looked at how report content can be added to pages using a Classic Report Region. Classic Report Regions offer a number of built-in functions out of the box, but this has been taken to a whole new level with the introduction of Interactive Report Regions in APEX. Interactive Report Regions enable users to customize reports dynamically at runtime. Users can add or remove columns, apply conditional highlighting, filter report data, and apply many other useful customizations. This enables us to make our reports more interactive and functional with no additional coding required. In this chapter, we will discuss how to use Interactive Reports in our applications. Specifically, we shall be looking at:

• Interactive Report Region features

• Creating an Interactive Report

• Modifying an Interactive Report

Interactive Report Regions

Interactive Report Regions are a new feature in APEX 3.1 and provide many new features over Classic Report Regions. Interactive...