Preface

Welcome to Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer - the tool that enables you to analyze business data.

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Keyboard Navigation

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 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).

Intended Audience

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

• 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

Structure

This manual contains the following parts:

• Part I, "Conceptual and task information"

• Part II, "Reference information"

Related Documents

For more information, see the following manuals:

• Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus User's Guide

• Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Configuration Guide

• Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administration Guide

You can access the above documents and other information about 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 shows 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.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
monotype	Characters you type are shown in monotype.

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