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ORACLE REPORTS DEVELOPER 6i

Duration: 3 days

Develop the skills to effectively utilize

the GUI report writer to build reports
Course Content:
INTRO TO REPORT BUILDER USER-DEFINED COLUMNS
• Oracle Reports overview • Creating user-defined columns
• Working with Oracle reports • Formula columns
Course Description: • Summary columns
CREATING A TABULAR REPORT
• Placeholder columns
• Creating a tabular report
This lab-intensive course is designed to lead developers
through the steps involved in developing a report. The course BUILDING MATRIX REPORTS
USING THE OBJECT NAVIGATOR
covers concepts involved in using the GUI report writer to build • Matrix report concepts
• Understanding objects
reports in various formats which can include buttons, • Creating a matrix report
• The Object Navigator
multimedia and OLE2 objects. • Building a matrix report
• Understanding the Object Navigator
• Creating a break matrix report
• Working with object property palettes
Participants will learn… USING PARAMETERS
USING THE DATA MODEL EDITOR
• Parameter concepts
• Invoking the data model editor
• Reports 6 Concepts and Objects • The runtime parameter form
• Understanding the data model objects
• To use the Object Navigator • Working with user parameters
• Using the data model tools
• To use the Report Painters • Validating parameters
• Customizing the painting region
• OLE objects • Creating a lexical parameter
• Building a data model manually
• Basic Report Formats • Finishing with the report wizard
• Using Build-In Packages USING PL/SQL IN REPORTS
• Report Triggers • Understanding PL/SQL
USING THE LAYOUT EDITOR – PART 1
• Character Mode executions • Pre-defined packages and
• Using the layout model editor
exceptions
• Understanding editor objects
• PL/SQL functions in triggers
• Using layout editor tools
• Creating and attaching external
• Basic report formatting PL/SQL
Who Needs to Attend: • Layout sections • PL/SQL trace and debug features
• Setting object print options
Application developers, designers, analysts and technical • Manipulating objects
support personnel, plus those who manage projects requiring WEB REPORTING
these skills. • Creating static Web reports
USING THE LAYOUT EDITOR – PART 2 • Manually generating Web report
• Setting report properties HTML files
• Controlling text spacing and alignment • Viewing Web reports with a Web
Prerequisites: • Using the drawing tools Browser
• Importing files • Adding HTML Headers and
Oracle Foundation Classes (SQL Basics & SQL Plus and • Adding linked files
PL/SQL Workshop) or familiarity with SQL and PL/SQL or Footers to your Web report
• Adding OLE2 objects • Adding Bookmarks to your report
equivalent experience.
• Adding buttons • Creating Hyperlinks
• Exporting files • Enabling Dynamic Web reporting
• Creating frames
• Anchoring objects Course Labs:
BUILDING ADVANCED REPORTS-PART 1 1. Introduction to Report Builder
• Building mailing label reports 2. Creating a tabular report
• Building form letter reports 3. Using the object navigator
4. Using the data model editor
BUILDING ADVANCED REPORTS-PART 2 5. Using the layout editor, part 1
• Building break reports 6. Using the layout editor, part 2
• Building master-detail reports 7. Building advanced reports, part 1
8. Building advanced reports, part 2
9. User-defined columns
10. Matrix reports
11. Using parameters
12. Web Reporting