Report Customization

Report Customization:
How to Create New Report on the Application It Takes you to follow 5 steps to do this:

1. Navigate to System Administrator Responsibility
Then Navigate to Concurrent
Then

Program
Executable

In This Step You should Define the executable File for

Executable: The Executable program name.

Short Name: Short name to be use in the Program or report define after that.
Application: Application where the report scopes on and will be put in its home.
Description: Your Description of the Executables.
Execution Method: The Tool that the program will be run with.
Execution File Name: The file name of the program or report.

After this Step you need to copy your report RDF file in the module (AP,PO ,GL…. ) home.

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2. Then Navigate into Concurrent
Program
Define

In this step you will verify your program or report and how it can be run and the output type,
As in it we enter:

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Program: The program name which will appear to the user.

Short Name: Report Short name.
Application: Application where the report scopes on and will be put in its home.
Description: Your Description of the report.
Executable Name: The Executable name that the program will be run on.
Executable Method: The Tool that the program will be run with.
Format: The output type of your report (Text, PDF, XML,……..).
Style: Print Style (Portrait, Landscape…….).
Printer: If you want to restrict your program's output to a single printer.

Hint:
In Columns / Rows:
Enter the minimum column and row length for this program's report output. Oracle Applications uses this
information to determine which print styles can accommodate your report.
Style:
The print style you select depends on your system and printer setup. Print styles include:
• 132 columns and 66 lines (Landscape)
• 180 columns and 66 lines (Landwide)
• 80 columns and 66 lines (Portrait)
• 132 columns and 62 lines (A4)
Your list is limited to those styles that meet your program's columns and row length requirements.

After Defining All That we should define our report parameters to run with from parameters button

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Seq: Your parameter number or id, it could range from 1 to 999.

Parameter: Parameter name.
Description: Your Description of the parameter.
Value Set: Parameter Data Type.
Default Type: If you want to set a default value for this parameter, identify the type of value
you need.
Default Value: You can enter a default value for the parameter here.
Display Size: The size of parameter in the parameter popup window.
Description Size: The size of parameter description in the parameter popup window.
Prompt: A user sees the prompt instead of the parameter name in the Parameters
popup window.
Token: For a parameter in an Oracle Reports program, the keyword or parameter
appears here. The value is case insensitive. For other types of programs, you
can skip this field.

If you reach this point so the report already created you have to do something else which is assign this
report to the user this could be done in a few steps.

3. In the system administrator responsibility navigate into

Security
User
Define

In this step you need to query the user that you want to add the report to and know the
responsibility name to add the report to.

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4. In this Step we have the responsibility name , Every Responsibility have a Request group that
is collect every related request.
We can know the request group name by query the responsibility name in the responsibilities form
You can reach this form with navigation to
Security
Responsibility
Define.

5. And this is the last step, Navigate into:

Security
Responsibility
Request.
And query on the request group name and the application together .
And insert your report name in the requests block below and save.

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Here you finished your task with creating and assigning your report to a user.
What you need else to go to the user responsibility and run the report to check it run correct and get
the data.

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