This presentation covers the different options you have to produce reports in Oracle Application Express (APEX). I cover Classic Reports, Interactive Reports and Grids, PL/SQL and exporting and printing your data with APEX Office Print (AOP).

1. Dimitri Gielis
APEX Reporting
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@dgielis
dgielis@apexRnD.be

2. Dimitri Gielis
❖ Founder & CEO of APEX R&D
❖ 19+ years of Oracle Experience
(OCP & APEX Certified)
❖ Oracle ACE Director
❖ “APEX Developer of the year 2009” by Oracle Magazine
❖ “Oracle Developer Choice award (ORDS)” in 2015
❖ Author Expert Oracle APEX
❖ Presenter at Conferences

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4. http://dgielis.blogspot.com @dgielis

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6. Agenda
❖ Classic Reports (20 min)
❖ Plain, Custom Template, Analytical Functions
❖ Interactive Reports (10 min)
❖ Many ways to manipulate and call
❖ Interactive Grids (5 min)
❖ Custom view
❖ Plug-ins and PL/SQL (5 min)
❖ Nested reports and full flexibility
❖ Exporting (10 min)
❖ Use of Cursor loops

7. Classic Reports

8. Classic Report
❖ what we think about

9. Build-in Report Templates

10. Classic Report
❖ different report template: Timeline

11. Classic Report
❖ different report template: Badge List

12. Classic Report
❖ different report template: Value Attribute Pairs (buttons!)

13. Packaged Applications > Universal Theme Sample App

14. Demo
UT Sample App

15. Custom Report Templates

16. Custom Report Template
❖ Generic Columns (column template)
❖ Named Column (row template)

17. Demo
Custom Report Templates

18. Combining queries

19. UNION [ALL], INTERSECT, MINUS Operators
❖ select …
union all
select …

20. Demo
Unions

21. Analytical Functions

22. Alex Nuijten - Analytic Functions: Unleash the SQL Power

23. Learning Analytical Functions
❖ Good video of Alex Nuijten - Analytic Functions: Unleash
the SQL Power - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=z0Tx5rFDado
❖ Oracle Documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/
database/121/SQLRF/functions004.htm#SQLRF06174

24. Demo
Analytical Functions

25. Combination of techniques

26. More information
❖ Packaged Applications > Sample Reporting
❖ Oracle APEX 5 Classic Report Templates (Christina)
https://storm-petrel.com/orablog/2015/12/20/oracle-apex-5-classic-report-templates.html
❖ APEX Classic Report Named Column Templates (Jorge)
http://rimblas.com/blog/2016/06/apex-classic-report-named-column-templates/
❖ Highlighting negative numbers (Dimitri)
http://dgielis.blogspot.be/2015/01/highlight-negative-numbers-in-apex.html
❖ Analytic Functions: Unleash the SQL Power (Alex)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Tx5rFDado
❖ ROLLUP, CUBE, GROUPING Functions and GROUPING SETS (Tim)
https://oracle-base.com/articles/misc/rollup-cube-grouping-functions-and-grouping-sets

27. Packaged Applications > Sample Reporting

28. Packaged Applications > Sample Reporting

29. Learn SQL!
https://livesql.oracle.com

31. Interactive Reports

32. Interactive Report
❖ Many features:
❖ Highlight
❖ Break
❖ Aggregates
❖ Computations
❖ Pivot
❖ …

33. Interactive Report
❖ different view: Icon View

34. Interactive Report
❖ different view: Icon View

35. Interactive Report
❖ different view: Detail View

36. Interactive Report
❖ different view: Detail View

37. Interactive Report
❖ Call a report through
❖ URL
❖ PL/SQL
❖ DA - JavaScript

38. Demo
Advanced Highlight
Call Interactive Reports

39. Interactive Grids

40. Interactive Grid
❖ Many features:
❖ Highlight
❖ Break
❖ Aggregate
❖ …
❖ Same feature set as Interactive Reports in future and more…
the same but very different (mvc)!

41. Interactive Grid Sample Application

42. Interactive Grid Cookbook

43. Demo
Interactive Grid

44. Plugins and PL/SQL

45. Plug-ins
❖ Go to apex.world > Plug-ins

46. PL/SQL
❖ Full flexibility to generate HTML/CSS

47. PL/SQL
❖ Full flexibility to generate HTML/CSS

48. Export to …

49. https://www.apexofficeprint.com

50. APEX Office Print (AOP) Sample Application

51. Cursor Loops

52. Getting more power …
❖ APEX Dictionary Views

53. Demo
Cursor Loops
Export Multiple Regions

54. Recap
❖ Classic Reports
❖ Plain, Custom Template, Analytical Functions
❖ Interactive Reports
❖ Many ways to manipulate
❖ Interactive Grids
❖ Custom view
❖ Plug-ins and PL/SQL
❖ Nested reports and full flexibility
❖ Exporting
❖ Use of Cursor loops

55. Useful APEX applications
Useful APEX applications

56. Q&A
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