Oracle Reports Workshop

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Course Overview

Oracle Reports Workshop is a two-day class designed to provide students with the skills necessary to create reports using a GUI report writer. Instructor-led exercises will teach students the complete report development process, from building queries on which reports are based through designing the appropriate report format to restricting output with user-entered parameters. Lessons will include building reports using the report tool's built-in wizards, as well as the more thorough manual approach, assuring a complete understanding of the capabilities of the tool. This workshop also will cover topics related to Web-enabled reports and new features.

Course Goals

  • To understand product capabilities and features
  • To understand the product structure and built-in features
  • To acquire knowledge in meeting prerequisites for development and customization of Oracle Reports

Prerequisites

  • SQL & SQL*Plus
  • PL/SQL
  • Advanced PL/SQL (optional)

Who Should Attend?

  • Application developers
  • Designers/developers

Course Materials

  • Oracle Reports Course Notes
  • Oracle Reports Reference Book
  • Sample Script Disk

Duration

  • Two days

Tuition

  • $930

Course Outline

  • Introductions
  • Report wizard
    • Types of reports
    • Using the report wizard
    • Live previewer
  • Data model
    • Query builder
    • Break groups
    • Formula, summary and placeholder columns
    • Linking queries
  • Layout model
    • Margin, header and trailer pages
    • Frames, items and boilerplates
    • Object sizing and formatting
    • Stacking theory
    • Anchoring
  • Parameter form
    • User parameters
      • Lexical parameters
      • Parameter LOVs
    • System parameters
    • Parameter form builder
  • Report triggers
    • Types
    • When to use
  • Using images
    • File system
    • Database table
    • URLs
  • Generate to HTML/Web
    • Web wizard
    • URLs
  • Delimited output
  • XML output
  • Reports new features
    • Java Server Pages and servlets
    • Pluggable data source (PDS)
    • Graph wizard
    • Server enhancements
    • Report bursting and distribution enhancements