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Designing and Running Reports

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Objectives
• After completing this lesson, you should be able to do
the following:
– Identify user requirements
– Name the common report styles
– Describe the structure of each style
– Run prebuilt reports as an end user
– Identify supported report file types

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Understanding User Requirements
What data
Parameters
Web or
Paper
Web features
Security
Charts
Drill down

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Designing Reports
•Before you start development, consider:
Specification
Structure
Style
Publishing
Medium
Data retrieval
Common features

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Product
Number Description Price
List of Products
Tabular

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Master-Detail
Customer Name
Product
Number Price
Customer Name
Product
Number Price
Outstanding Customer Items

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Master with Two Details
Customer
Outstanding
Items
Orders in Last
Six Months
Total
Value
Product
Number Price
Order
No. Date
Customer Statistics

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Matrix
Product ID
Customer
Customer Matrix

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Retrieving and Sharing Data
– Keep database access to a minimum
– Consider report structure and number of queries
– Make effective use of common code and objects

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Running a Report
– Your browser
– OracleAS Portal application
– Command line (Start > Run)
– OracleAS Reports Queue Manager
– Java application
– Database trigger
– Menu integrated with a Forms application
– Button in a Forms application

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Previewing Reports

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Print Preview
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Print Preview
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Supported File Types
– RDF
– REP
– JSP
– HTML
– XML

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Summary
• In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
– Identify key questions to help understand user requirements
– List the simple report styles and describe their underlying structures
– Identify key design considerations:
• Report style
• Database access
• Common code
• Common objects
– List the various options for running a report

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Practice 2 Overview
Executing existing reports