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Oracle Reports Tutorial

Report Builder Features

A query builder with a visual representation of the specification of SQL statements to obtain report data

Wizards that guide you through the report design process

Default report templates and layouts that can be customized to meet your reporting needs

The ability to generate code to customize how reports will run

A Live Pre-viewer that allows you to edit report layouts in WYSIWYG mode

An integrated chart builder that helps you to graphically represent report data

Web publishing tools that dynamically generate web pages based on your data

Other standard report output formats like HTML, PDF, PCL, Postscript, and ASCII

Starting Report Builder

1. Make sure PC Xware is running

2. Telnet Pegasus by typing telnet pegasus.rutgers.edu or connect to pegasus from the SSH client (make sure X11 Tunneling is

enabled in SSH preferences)

3. start oracle Report Builder by typing rwbld60

Using Wizards

Report Builder has a Report Wizard, Data Wizard, and Web Wizard to automate the creation of reports. Most often, you can create a report by

starting with one of the wizards, and then refining the report that the wizard creates using the data model view and the layout view.

To create a report using report wizard

1. If the Welcome dialog box appears (the following screen), click Use the Report Wizard and click OK.


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If the Welcome dialog box does not appear, choose File->New->Report. ClickUse the Report Wizard and clickOK.

2. You will receive the following screen unless you selected not to display it in the future previously. Click next


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3. Select Report type; this will affect report layout. you can see the different layouts by clicking their corresponding buttons and

looking at the sample layout on the left. After you select the type you want clicknext


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4. The data presented in the report is the result of a query. If you are not connected, you need to connect as shown in the following

screen.You can create that query by one of three methods: (1) writing a SELECT statement (2) Building the query using the Query

By Example (QBE) interface, (3) importing the query.


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5. Select the fields you would like to display in the report in the order you want as shown in the next screen. Then clicknext


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6. Apply aggregate functions to the fields if you want by selecting the field then the aggregate function. Then clicknext


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7. Change Field names and their width as shown in the next screen then clicknext


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8. Select a template then clicknext


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9. On the last page of the Report Wizard, clickFinish.


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10. A report is created and appears in the Live Previewer.


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11. From the Live Previewer, you can edit the report as desired. Note that the Live Previewer is one of several report views that are

available in the Report Editor. Using the View menu or the toolbar, you can switch to other report views to

Report Editor

In the Report Editor, you can view information about a report in four different ways. You can switch between these views using the View menu

or the toolbar icons. You will work in each of the following Report Editor views as you create the sample reports in this tutorial:

Live Previewer


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Data Model view

Layout Model view

Parameter Form view

Live Previewer

This view displays your report as the end user will see it. If you are using existing data, the Live Previewer will update the report as data

changes. Any modifications that you make to the report in the Live Previewer are reflected immediately. To display your report in the Live

Previewer, select View menu then Live Previewer.

Data Model view

This view displays your report data as data model objects so that you can see the relationships between queries, groups, columns, parameters,

and links. To display your report in the Data Model view, select View menu then select Data Model.

Layout Model view

This view displays the attributes of your report as objects so that you can see the attribute types and relationships. You can edit layout objects,

such as frames, repeating frames, fields, boilerplates, anchors, and graphics in this view in order to change the appearance of the report. To

display your report in the Layout Model view, select View menu then select Layout Model.

Parameter Form view

This view lets you create aRuntime Parameter Form for your report. When a user runs your report, the user enters values for parameters in this

form to determine how the report will execute. Otherwise, the user may accepts the defaults. If you do not define a Runtime Parameter Form in

the Parameter Form view, Report Builder displays a default Parameter Form at runtime. You can select which system and user parameters to

use for your form using the Parameter Form Builder, or you can create your own from scratch. To display the Parameter Form view, select

View menu then select parameter form.

Modifying Report Format

To apply changes to any column, click anywhere in that column. Report Builder will select all the rows in that column to indicate that changes

will apply to all the rows. You can select multiple columns and items by holding shift and clicking on those columns or report items.


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The Conditional Formatting is a great way to apply formatting exceptions to your layout objects. (For example, you can make a fields value

Red when it exceeds a specified maximum value). If you are familiar with Excel, there is a similar feature there. The Conditional Formatting

dialog box alone may satisfy your requirements for creating a formatting exception without the need to edit the corresponding trigger.

However, once you directly edit a Format Trigger for an object, you should not go back and use the Conditional Formatting dialog box to make

more modifications.

To apply conditional formatting to an item:

1. select that item, then select property palate from Tools menu. Or right click that data item and select property palate.

2. Under the general layout section, select Conditional Formatting as show in next screen. you will get the conditional formatting

dialog box.


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3. ClickNew

4. Apply a condition by selecting an operator such as Less than orBetween then put the values for the condition. You can have a

complex condition (multiple conditions connected by AND or OR) by clicking radio button in the next line. The AND/OR will be

enabled (on the right).


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5. Then Apply the format you want when that condition is met by changing the font face, color, fill color, etc. You can also select to

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1. In the Data Model view, click the SQL icon (on the left) then click anywhere inside the data model screen. You will get SQL

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