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Feature Request FR-2904
Product Area Page Components
Status CLOSED

2 Voters

make hidden column values available in interactive reports

fcasett Public · Dec 22 2022

Idea Summary
make available the value(s) of hidden columns in the HTML generated by IRs

Use Case
sometimes you need to perform actions retrieving a hidden value from an IR

Preferred Solution (Optional)

This is a great idea! You can already achieve this in APEX today with a slightly different approach.

Comments

Comments

  • fac586 OP 2.5 years ago

    Idea Summary
    make available the value(s) of hidden columns in the HTML generated by IRs

    Where/when/how do you want them to be available?

    Use Case
    sometimes you need to perform actions retrieving a hidden value from an IR

    What actions?

  • fcasett OP 2.5 years ago

    Execute some logic basing on the value, typically a PK, retrieved from a hidden row/column combination. Currently it seems to me that such PK must be visible in the IR in order to get its value.
    If I remember well in classic reports hidden columns were still present although not visible to the user.
    May be there is some workaround to achieve the same result, but I'd like to have some supported method for doing this in order to avoid problems in the future if the underlying logic/layout changes.

  • fac586 OP 2.5 years ago

    This is already achievable in both classic and interactive reports by referencing hidden column values in data-* attributes or elements in the mark-up of HTML Expressions or Link Attributes on displayed columns:

    <data value="#EMPNO#">#ENAME#</data>

    <span data-id="#EMPNO#" data-sal="#SAL#">#ENAME#</span>