Preface

Welcome to Oracle Discoverer Administrator - the tool for setting up and maintaining Discoverer systems.

Discoverer Administrator enables you to control and manage your Discoverer system so that users of Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer can find the information they want.

Oracle Discoverer Navigation and Accessibility

Keyboard Navigation

Oracle 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).

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Intended Audience

Use this guide if you are responsible for managing a Discoverer system, and you want to know how to:

• create and maintain End User Layers

• set up business areas, folders and items

• help users find information by defining joins, calculated items, and conditions

• improve Discoverer performance using summary folders

Structure

This manual contains the following chapters:

• Part I Conceptual and task information
  • "Introducing Oracle Discoverer Administrator"

  • "Getting started with Discoverer Administrator"

  • "Creating and maintaining End User Layers"

  • "Creating and maintaining business areas"

  • "Creating and maintaining folders"

  • "Controlling access to information"

  • "Scheduling workbooks"

  • "Maintaining items and item classes"

  • "Creating and maintaining joins"

  • "Creating and maintaining calculated items"

  • "Creating and maintaining conditions"

  • "Creating and maintaining hierarchies"

  • "Managing summary folders"

  • "Creating summary folders manually"

  • "Additional information about summary folders"

  • "Using Discoverer with Oracle Applications"

  • "Using Discoverer with components of Oracle Application Server"

  • "EUL status workbooks"

  • "Predicting query performance"

  • "Oracle Discoverer command line interface"

  • "Discoverer registry settings"

  • "Discoverer support for non-Oracle databases and Oracle Rdb"

  • "Upgrading from earlier versions of Discoverer"

• Part II Reference information
  • "Reference dialogs"

  • "Using SQL files and trace files"

Related Documents

For more information, see the following manuals:

• Oracle Application Server Discoverer Plus User's Guide

• Oracle Application Server Discoverer Plus Tutorial

• Oracle Discoverer Administrator Tutorial

• Oracle Application Server Discoverer Configuration Guide

• Oracle9i Database Error Messages

• Oracle Discoverer Administrator error messages

• Oracle9i SQL Reference Guide

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.

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.