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 Web features

Parameters Security

Web or Charts
Paper Drill down

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 Designing Reports

Before you start development, consider:

Specification
Data retrieval
Common features
Structure

Style

Publishing
Medium

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 Tabular
List of Products

Product
Number Description Price

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 Master-Detail
Outstanding Customer Items

Customer Name
Product
Number Price

Customer Name
Product
Number Price

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 Master with Two Details
Customer Statistics

Customer

Outstanding Orders in Last

Items Six Months
Product Order Total
Number Price No. Date Value

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 Matrix

Customer Matrix

Product ID
Customer

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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

1
2

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 Print Preview

1 2 3

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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

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