2

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

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What data
Parameters

Web features
Security

Web or
Paper

Charts
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

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Description

Price

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Master-Detail
Outstanding Customer Items
Customer Name
Product
Number

Price

Customer Name
Product
Number

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Price

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Master with Two Details

Customer Statistics
Customer

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Outstanding
Items

Orders in Last
Six Months

Product
Number Price

Order
No.

Date

Total
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

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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
3

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Print Preview
1

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Supported File Types

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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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