1 Reply Latest reply on Mar 3, 2011 9:27 AM by Adamc-Oracle

    cannot get xls2collections to work ..

    Adamc-Oracle
    Adamc-Oracle Mar 2, 2011 5:36 AM
      I'm running the APEX Listener standalone using the Embedded Web Container ... seems to be working fine. (using Oracle APEX Listener 1.1)

      I've updated apex-config.xml to include

      <entry key="apex.excel2collection">true</entry>

      and restarted the listener using ..

      java -Dapex.port=8081 -Dapex.images=/u01/app/oracle/product/apex_lsnr/images -Dapex.erase=true -jar apex.war

      and then checked that the changes to the config file had persisted.

      I've copied the APP Scott Spendolini published in http://spendolini.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html and also had a go myself ..

      When I click the upload button (which has a REQUEST value of "XLS2COLLECTION"), the file gets loaded into wwv_flow_files however there isn't a collection created.

      Any ideas? What's missing?
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        • 1. Re: cannot get xls2collections to work ..
          Adamc-Oracle
          Adamc-Oracle Mar 3, 2011 9:27 AM (in response to Adamc-Oracle)
          so this is what went wrong ..

          the APEX Listener code is installed in /u01/app/oracle/product/apex_lsnr

          In that directory is apex-config.xml. I changed the existing entry in that file to <entry key="apex.excel2collection">true</entry> having made the assumption that this was the right file.

          I then removed all files under /tmp/apex and /home/oracle/.apex ... which seems to be where temp files are located.

          I restarted the APEX Listener with

          java -Dapex.port=8081 -Dapex.images=/u01/app/oracle/product/apex_lsnr/images -Dapex.erase=true -jar apex.war

          The problem is that the new apex-config.xml file created under /tmp/apex doesn't have any entry like <entry key="apex.excel2collection">true</entry> ... that is, the config file created does not cary over any if the settings made in the original (persistent) version of apex-config,xml

          I added <entry key="apex.excel2collection">true</entry> to the /tmp/apex/apex-config.xml and restarted the listener and it all work!