APEX

Question: Using APEX 4.0 I am finding that I am having a world of hurt trying to get very BASIC printing setup. I am not using BI and do not need PDF or RFT formats. Essentially, I would like to be able to create Interactive reports that do three things:

1) Provide a "Print" link for the user
2) Pass any interactive parameters to the print so the filtering and such are maintained
3) Disable the Interactive Search bar on the printer friendly page.

Working through the documentation I can't find any clear references to just printing a report on a page. I have found how to setup the printing for using the APEX_ADMIN site and I have found the "printer freindly" template and have been able to work with that. The rest is coming across very cryptic.

I thought these would be simple but every solution I try seems very "gummy". I have added a print link to the Navigation Bar but it always references the only a single page. So I added a print button to each page (which was easy) but it doesn't pass the Search and Filter parameters to the printer friendly view of the data.

I have also noticed that only about 2 pages of output go to the printer when I have about 800 records on the screen (that one is weird).

I am a very good PL/SQL programmer so if the solution is code-based, please hit me with it.


My platform is APEX 4.2 on Windows 2003 Server - Oracle XE

Any help would be great!

Thanks