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Introduction to Oracle 10gChapter 10Creating and Modifying Reports

James Perry and Gerald Post

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Chapter Outline

• Introducing Reports Developer• Building and Modifying Reports• Enhancing a Report• Customizing Reports• Controlling Data in a Report• Creating Custom Templates• Customizing a Web Report

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10.1: Customers in a tabular report

Sample reports

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10.2: Grouped report shows sales by city and agent

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10.3: Matrix or cross tab report of sales by agent by month

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Developer User

Database server

Application serverReports

builderName.jsp

Report definition

Web browser

Report in HTML

10.4 Oracle reports services

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Report Header

Report Footer

Page Header

Page Footer

Detail

Break Header

Break Footer

10.5 Overall structure of a grouped report

Building and modifying reports

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Customer Header

Customer Footer

Detail

Detail

Sale Header: SaleID=1

Sale Footer: SaleID=1

Sale Header: SaleID=5

Sale Footer: SaleID=5

10.6 Nested groups from customer to sale to detail

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Sort

Conditions

Select All

10.7 Query builder for the City/Agent form

The Reports Builder

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10.8 Choosing the groupings for the report

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Format Options

Layout Displays Page Navigation

Run Web or Paper

10.9 Initial report for sales by city and agent

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Paper Layout button

10.10 Page layout window

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10.11 Using the Object Navigator to set vertical spacing

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Step through code

Group Frame

Group Footer

Group Header

Detail Group

10.12 The Object Navigator

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10.13 Choosing the fields for the matrix rows

Enhancing a report

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10.14 The initial matrix report

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Set Line Color

Add space

10.15 Adding a box to display grid lines in a matrix report

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Text boxes for totals

10.16 Text boxes for subtotal headings

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Choose a section to modify

10.17 Using the Report Wizard in reentrant mode to modify a report

Customizing reports

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10.18 Data model for the grouped report

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10.19 Initial data model for matrix report

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Create spaceAdd field

10.20 Adding a summary field

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10.21 Count field displayed on the report

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Select Magnify

Summary Column Data Link

Formula Column Cross Product

Placeholder Column SQL Query

Ref Cursor Query XML Query

JDBC Query Text Query

OLAP Query Express Server Query

10.22 Data Model toolbox

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Start with SQL

Data Link to connect

10.23 The master-detail data model

Creating a report manually

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10.24 Paper Layout of the Listings and Offers report

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10.25 Design Layout of the Listings and Offers report

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10.26 Design Layout with the house photo

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Table 10.1 System parameters

Parameter Name Description

COPIES The number of copies to print. Default = 1.

DESFORMAT The output format and is usually set as PDF, HTML, HTMLCSS, RTF, XLM, or DELIMITED. It can also be the printer definition. Default = dflt.

DESNAME The name of the output device, such as a file name, printer name, or e-mail address. Default is blank.

DESTYPE The type of output device, such as screen, file, printer, mail, sysout, cache, localfile, or preview. Default=Screen.

MODE Whether to print the report in character or bitmap format. Default = Default.

ORIENTATION The paper layout is portrait or landscape. Default = Default..

PRINTJOB Controls whether the Print Job dialog box appears before the report is run. Default = Yes. However, the dialog is never called from within the Reports Builder.

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10.27 Parameter List of Values query

Creating user parameters

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Choose a valueRun the report

10.28 User parameter form

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10.29 The matrix report with many houses for sale

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Choose template type

Four frame levels

Data labels and fields

Show margin items

10.30 Initial template layout

Designing custom templates

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10.31 A brighter report with the new layout

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10.32 Initial Web view of Sales by City and Agent

Customizing Web reports

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Database server

Application server

Report definition

Java links<HTML><LINK rel=“StyleSheet”… /><TABLE …>

<rw: database calls >

</TABLE>

</HTML>

Web server withJava Engine

.OraTable

.OraColumnHeader

.OraCellDate

.OraHEader

.OraCellNumber

.OraCellText

.OraHeaderSub

.OraHeaderSubSub

.OraRowHeader

.OraTotalText

.OraTotalNumberStyle sheet

HTML page

SQL and data

10.33 Dynamic HTML report components

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Java set up

Style sheet link

Logo file

Page title

10.34 A portion of the Web definition file

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Main loop for group 1 (City)

Level 2 group (Agent)

Detail loop (Listing)

10.35 The data area of the Web definition file

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White background

Blue text and yellow background

10.36 Style sheet changes

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White background

Brighter heading

10.37 The new Web report

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10.38 A chart at the bottom of the Web report

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10.39 Inserting a chart