Interactive Reports - Configure header and footers

Version: Oracle Application Express 4 and above.

Recently I had been asked by my colleague to how to configure header and footer for PDF printing of Interactive reports in Oracle Apex. We have been using Apex 4.2.5, but this tip will work for versions above 4.

If PDF download is not working in interactive reports in your setup, refer this article to configure PDF printing.

By default if you are downloading an interactive report in Oracle Apex, it will only download the data inside the report. It will not print anything which is available in Region header/footer. It is available as a separate option which will help configure attributes while printing.

Navigate to your page in developer view, and click on Interactive Report link for the region.

Click the Interactive Report link

Click on the tab Print Attributes.

Click the tab, Print Attributes

In this section you will be able to add/modify the following settings:

• Print Server Override: If you have created a custom report with XSL-FO templates, and you need to execute this report, the configuration has to be done here.
• Paper Size, Orientation of the report
• Font settings for printing the headings, data in the report
• Page Header & Footer

Print Attributes settings screen

Please note that this section "Print Attributes" will only be used while downloading the report in PDF, and not in CSV/HTML download in Interactive Reports.

For more information refer Oracle Application Express Builder's User Guide.