What are the new features in Discoverer Plus 10.1.2.0.0?

Discoverer Plus Version 10.1.2.0.0 contains the following new and improved features:

• Native support of the database OLAP option. You can now analyze multidimensional databases (for more information, see "Using Discoverer Plus with a multidimensional data source").

• Enhanced interactivity. You can now drag and drop directly in the Discoverer workarea, and also use right click menus on items and values, new toolbars, and a graphical date selector (for more information, see " About the Discoverer Plus Relational work area").

• Conditional formatting. You can now create conditional formats (also known as exception formats) and stoplight formats (for more information, see "What is conditional formatting?").

• Enhanced drilling. You can now drill directly into graph data, and create dynamic links to other Discoverer worksheets or Internet URLs (for more information, see "About drilling in Discoverer worksheets").

• Enhanced printing. You can now perform advanced page setup, print preview, and print to PDF format operations (for more information, see "Printing worksheets and graphs").

• New export formats. You can now export to Excel Web Query (*.iqy) format to run queries in Microsoft Excel sheets, and export to PDF format (for more information, see "Printing worksheets and graphs").

• Enhanced workbook management. You can now select workbooks from a new workbook list that has improved support for large numbers of users (for more information, see "Using workbooks and worksheets").

• New portlet types. You can now add a Gauges portlet (to represent data as a gauge) and a List of Worksheets portlet (which replaces the List of Workbooks portlet in previous releases) to Oracle Portal pages (for more information, see "Publishing worksheets to OracleAS Portal").

• Single Sign-On support for Virtual Private Databases. Depending on how Discoverer has been set up, you can now access data in a Virtual Private Database using a Single Sign-On ID (for more information, see "How do I know what Single Sign-on ID is being used in Discoverer Plus?").

• Enhanced worksheet formatting. You can now create worksheet text areas, and use new worksheet formatting options (for more information, see "Using workbooks and worksheets" and "Editing worksheets and worksheet items").

• Enhanced workbook scheduling. You can now share scheduled workbook results with other Discoverer users (for more information, see "Sharing workbooks").

• Enhanced parameter handling. You can now select parameters using cascading Lists of Values (LOVs) and parameter index values, and parameters are marked as mandatory or optional, (for more information, see "Using parameters").

• Enhanced charting. You can now select from new graph types and predefined graph styles, and use drill functionality in graphs (for more information, see "Creating graphs in Discoverer").