Working in Oracle Reports Developer

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do

the following:
Describe the main Oracle Reports executables
Describe the main components of Reports Builder
Describe the main objects in a report

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 Reports Developer Executables

Developer
Reports Builder Reports Runtime Reports Converter
rwbuilder rwrun rwconverter

Reports Services

Reports Server Reports Client Queue Manager

rwserver rwclient rwrqm

Reports Servlet Reports CGI

rwservlet rwcgi

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 Invoking Reports Builder

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 Reports Builder Modules

Report Template PL/SQL Library

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 Report Data and Layout

Paper

Web

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 Reports Builder Components

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 Reports Builder Components

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 Reports Builder Components

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 Reports Builder Components

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 Main Menu Structure

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 Main Menu Structure

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 Main Menu Structure

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 Main Menu Structure

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 Wizards

Report Wizard
Data Wizard
Graph Wizard
Report Block Wizard

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 Report Editor

Data Model
Web Source
Paper Layout
Paper Design
Paper Parameter Form

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 PL/SQL Development Environment:
Syntax Palette

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 Object Navigator

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 Report-Level Objects

Properties
Triggers
PL/SQL Program Units
Attached Libraries

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 Data Model Objects

Parameters
Queries
Groups
Columns
Data Links

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 Paper Layout Objects

Frames
Repeating frames
Fields
Boilerplate

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 Paper Parameter Form Objects

Fields
Boilerplate

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 Object Interrelationship
1
Select
...

2
3

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 Customizing Your Oracle Reports
Developer Session

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 Saving Preferences

1 2

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 Oracle Reports Environment Variables

REPORTS_PATH
REPORTS_TMP
REPORTS_RESOURCE
ORACLE_PATH
REPORTS_CLASSPATH
Windows: Modify in Registry

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 Using the Online Help System

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

Describe the Oracle Reports executables
List the types of modules you can create in Reports
Builder
Describe the views of the Report Editor
Describe the main object categories in a report
module

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 Practice 3 Overview

Invoking Reports Builder

Opening an existing report
Switching views in the Report Editor
Accessing the Help system

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