Showing star rating on Oracle Apex Classic Report - oracle-apex

Question

Star ratings are now a built-in item type for oracle apex forms.
But how do you display them nicely on a report? In particular on a classic report that is displaying cards.
Its not a built-in classic report column type. Would this be easier with a different type of report?

Answer 1

I found the answer to my question pretty well documented here: https://community.oracle.com/message/15550215#15550215
Namely the instructions:
Set the HTML Expression property on the RATING column to:
<span class="fa u-hot-text report-star-rating" data-rating="#RATING#" title="#RATING#" aria-hidden-"true"></span>
<span class="u-VisuallyHidden">#RATING#</span>
Change the u-hot-text to another utility class (if needed) to vary the colour of the stars.
Add this style sheet to the Custom CSS section of the Theme Roller:
.report-star-rating {
white-space: nowrap;
}
.report-star-rating[data-rating="0"]::before {
content: "\f006\f006\f006\f006\f006";
}
.report-star-rating[data-rating="1"]::before {
content: "\f005\f006\f006\f006\f006";
}
.report-star-rating[data-rating="2"]::before {
content: "\f005\f005\f006\f006\f006";
}
.report-star-rating[data-rating="3"]::before {
content: "\f005\f005\f005\f006\f006";
}
.report-star-rating[data-rating="4"]::before {
content: "\f005\f005\f005\f005\f006";
}
.report-star-rating[data-rating="5"]::before {
content: "\f005\f005\f005\f005\f005";
}

Answer 2

The star rating item type can only be used as a standalone form item or as a column in an interactive grid.
You cannot use it in a classic report or an interactive report out of the box - but it should be rather simple to just let your sql output the corresponding read only html, like this:
select
'<span class="fa fa-star"></span>
<span class="fa fa-star"></span>
<span class="fa fa-star"></span>'
as x from dual
union
select '<span class="fa fa-star"></span>' as x from dual