I'd like to display the contents of a database table in a more interesting manner than just a table; different positioning, fonts, sizes, colours etc.
Is there a region type or plugin that can achieve that?
I tried the cards view but I it's still very limited (for example a minimum of 2 cards per row when I only need 1) Or maybe I should deploy it as a classic report and then use javascript to rearrange everything? edit: I also considered rendering the page with pl/sql and htp, but that seems overly complicated...
As I'm new to APEX, any input would be much appreciated!
You could do it as a classic report and change the template under the attributes to something else.
What I ended up doing was using an interactive report with a 'detail view'. That way you can use html+css and reference the data from the columns by using #column_name#. I'm really satisfied with it.
However the above answers are also very interesting! I definitely learned a lot experimenting with them.
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I am trying to do some reporting on page views on a site and the results are being listed like the following:
www.example.com/directory/ - 100 views
www.example.com/directory/?id=123456 - 10 views
www.example.com/directory/?id=987654 - 5 views
What filter do I need to create to views the results as:
www.example.com/directory/ - 100 views
www.example.com/directory/?id=* - 15 views
Thanks in advance
Yes, getting historical grouped together is going to mean using something like Google Docs, Excel, Tableau Software, Analytics Canvas, etc.
Moving forward...
One of the simplest ways of keeping things grouped in GA is to set up an advanced profile filter. You'll want to use this with a new profile; keeping a "raw" or "empty" profile is highly advisable for when you actually want to look at those individual URLs.
That said, here's a filter pattern that should work for you:
Go to Admin > Filters (under the View Column)
+ New Filter > Create new Filter > Name it
Filter Type = Custom filter > Advanced
Here's the pattern:
Field A: www\.example\.com\/directory\/\?id=.+
Output To: www\.example\.com\/directory\/\?id=\*
Another way to aggregate the same URI with multiple query strings is to change the primary dimension to 'Page Title' under Behavior > Site Content > All Pages.
The best way to do this for your historical data is unfortunately in an excel pivot table. You can get in in the UI, but only by creating a custom report and searching for very specific directories.
Check out the documentation on excluding query strings in your GA profile. Maybe create a new profile and write an advanced rule to rewrite all "id" pages to "/directory/product-page".
A totally different approach is to use custom variables or custom dimensions and to stop looking in the normal "Behavior" reports section (used to be called "Content" in GA) – custom dims are available using Google Analytics Universal Analytics only, which means starting a new web property and possibly running both code snippets concurrently (totally safe to do).
Personally I find custom dimensions a bit easier to work with than custom variables, and I generally think that it's a good idea to start exploring the new Google Analytics.
The nice thing about either of these approaches is that you can still keep the full page path date in the same profile as your custom dimension / variables information; it'll stay in the Behavior section where it belongs with all the other page paths.
Where I'm going with this...
You can create a new dimension such as "page type" and then call it "products", "posts", "articles", or whatever these id #s represent in this /directory/; then you can look at metrics across the dimension like pageviews, time on page, etc. by page type.
You can even create other dimensions to help describe them in more detail, such as breaking down blog posts or products into their different categories; i.e. hierarchical dimensions. Once you start using this kind of thing you may wonder what you ever did without it!
I think it's fair that I stop this answer now since it's not about how to set up custom variables or custom dimensions; those links should get you started (it's really not difficult).
Note: You can use php to fill in the dimension information in the GA tracking snippet dynamically based on the page that is being viewed (again, that's another question).
Using 4.1 (latest version).
I have an Interactive Report page in my app. Users are free to create and save public and private reports setting any filter conditions they choose. What I need to do is loop through these reports and "process" some data based on a column value that matches the filter condition (something like an EMPLOYEE_ID).
What I would like to do is package this functionality into a PL/SQL procedure that is scheduled using DBMS_SCHEDULER.
Other than trying to reverse engineer this from the APEX views, I am stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated.
The bad news: there is no built-in way to get the query of an interactive report.
(I hope you can program PLSQL, otherwise you've hit a dead end.)
However, i have a package which does most of the work and is indeed processing the application metadata for IRs. It can handle both column and row filters, and also columns which have an lov laid on top of them. It doesn't handle computations or aggregates.
You'd have to take the code and adjust it somewhat though, as my goal was returning some data through json back to the browser, but you won't have to write the query-rebuilding part anymore. I'll refer you to my blog post i made about my package and why i made it, so that might clear up some of the usage of it for you. You can get the zip, and you'll need the APEX_IR package. (at time of writing, it still contains a stupid oversight in that it ignores the dis/enabled state of filters)
Say I have a website that has 100 products. Then this is filtered down to 5 sections containing 20 products each. If you were in one of the sections that contained 20 products (e.g. toys), what would be the optimal method to display only 5 toys per page. At the bottom of the list would be next/previous buttons to show the next/previous set of 5 toys.
A better analogy would be google search. There are millions of results but only ~10 are shown at a given time.
So right now I'm using google app engine (python) and django templates. One way I thought of to remedy this problem would be making all the query results go into a div which could then be modified through javascript to give a similar effect. However, if someone were to click their browser's back button, they wouldn't go where they originally came from.
Thanks in advance. Any help would be useful...I don't know what this technique is called so google hasn't been really useful :(
Edit: based on responses, I found my question was solved here: How to use cursor() for pagination?
Look into query cursors. Thay are made to be serialized and sent to client, to be used in creating "next" and "previous" paging requests.
NOTE: don't use offset on queries. This can be VERY expensive, as it actually fetches (and charges) all entities up to offset+limit position, but returns to application only limit results.
I'm not sure that putting all the results as hidden content in the HTML and manipulating it using JS is a very good idea if you might have a large result set (think about what happened if Google used this approach). There's also the back functionality issue that you've mentioned.
So, as for querying a wanted "results page" each time, I think the Google's GQL Reference might help you, take a look specifically at the LIMIT clause, it can help you create the paging mechanism you're looking for by supplying it with the number of items-per-page you want as "count" and the numbers of items-previously-viewed as "offset" (0 at first call).
As for displaying, I think that the Google Images / Facebook News Feed approach might also be interesting to think about (loading on scroll instead of paging), but that's a matter of your personal choice :)
Hope this helps, good luck!
EDIT: After reading Peter's answer, I found it much more efficient to use cursors for pagination, a good reference is given in his answer.
I have a few Entities that I would like to be able to map Comments to (Profiles, Posts, Images, Videos - things like that).
Each of these Entities has a column that contains a guid, and what I would like to do is have the Comment table hold the guid to the item to which it belongs. What I can't figure out is how to configure Doctrine to handle this kind of thing so that the joins work. The solution I think might work is to use NativeSql (although I am not sure that will work either), but would rather not have to do that if at all possible.
I don't imagine I am the first one to encounter this problem, so I hope someone out there can help!
Thanks.
I think you can use inheritance mapping for that, can't you? You will need something like CommentableEntity, from which Profiles, Posts, Images, Videos are inherited.
It adds some overhead and you need to check if it's ok for your task.
Im using TCPDF for the first time and am laying out some data using cells, the problem is because i am using multiple cells to layout what is essentially one item when the page breaks the items will split up rather than breaking all together.
Is there any way where you can nest cells / multicells in TCPDF??
Thanks
Found a good blog post that explains how to do this incase anyone finds this post later on - calulates the page dimensions to allow you to work out if you need to add a new page or not
http://www.onemoretake.com/2009/03/27/revisited-tcpdf-variable-height-table-rows-with-multicell/
The simplest way is to use HTML tables as on default examples, otherwise you can build custom low-level tables with Cell() or Multicell() as on the example n. 11. Check the official http://www.tcpdf.org website and forums for further information.