Preface

Welcome to Discoverer Plus - the complete business intelligence (BI) analysis tool that works over the Internet.

Discoverer Plus enables you to query complex databases without having to understand the database language SQL (Structured Query Language). You can use Discoverer Plus to retrieve and analyze data, and produce reports in printed format or a range of electronic formats.

OracleBI Discoverer Plus Relational Navigation and Accessibility

This section contains information about navigation and accessibility in Discoverer.

Keyboard Navigation

OracleBI Discoverer Plus Relational supports standard keyboard navigation. Standard keyboard navigation includes the use of the tab key, mnemonics (using the Alt key and the underlined character), and accelerators (such as Alt+F4 to exit a window).

Changing font sizes and colors for enhanced readability

You can change the font size and color of worksheet items, headings, and totals to make them more readable.

To change the default font size and color of new worksheet items, headings, and totals, choose Tools | Options and specify appropriate settings on the "Edit Graph dialog: Titles, Totals, and Series tab".

To change the font size and color of existing worksheet items, headings, and totals, choose Format |Item Formats and specify appropriate settings on the "Format dialog".

Intended Audience

Use this guide when you want to use Discoverer to view and manipulate data to support business decisions and you want to know how to:

• create new workbooks (i.e. collections of business intelligence reports) or use existing workbooks to find the information you are interested in

• format the information to meet your requirements

• analyze the information in different ways

• share the information with other users

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

 JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Note: The JAWS screen-reader requires that Java Access Bridge software is installed on the client machine. You can download Java Access Bridge software from the Sun Microsystems site at http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge/.

For additional information about accessibility software, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

 This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Structure

This manual contains the following parts:

• Part I, "Getting started"

• Part II, "Analyzing data"

• Part III, "Sharing results with others"

• Part IV, "Advanced Discoverer Plus Relational features"

• Part V, "Discoverer Plus Relational Reference"

About screenshots in this documentation

Discoverer Plus can be deployed with a range of different user interface styles (e.g. using different colors, fonts, and button styles). Therefore, the appearance of the Discoverer user interface that you see when you use Discoverer might be different to the screenshots shown in this documentation.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following manuals:

• Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Configuration Guide

• Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administration Guide

You can access the above documents and other information about OracleBI Discoverer (e.g. white papers, best practices, tutorials) on the Oracle Technology Network at www.oracle.com/technology.

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

Convention	Meaning
File | New	Menu options are shown with a vertical bar separating the menu and the name of the option. For example, File | New indicates the selection of the New option from the File menu.
bold type	Bold type is used to distinguish field names in Discoverer dialogs.
italic type	Italic type is used for the names of other Oracle publications. Note: Italic type is also used on reference dialogs to refer to areas of a dialog that have no label.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
monotype	Characters you type are shown in monotype.

Discoverer often gives you several ways to perform an operation. For example, to create a new condition you could:

• choose Tools | Conditions

• click the Conditions toolbar button

Since you might not be using a mouse, the Discoverer documentation always tells you the menu and menu option to choose.

Prerequisites to run Discoverer Plus Relational

To run Discoverer Plus Relational, a Discoverer End User Layer must already exist. The Discoverer manager must have created or upgraded the End User Layer using OracleBI Discoverer Administrator.