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Distributing a report to multiple destinations

To distribute a report, you first define the distribution, then enable the distribution.

You can define the distribution for a report in any of the following ways:

To enable the distribution of a report, you can do either of the following:

You can also trace the report distribution to verify a successful distribution.

Usage notes

In some cases, Microsoft Internet Explorer ignores the mimetype of a URL’s return stream and instead sets the type by looking at the URL. This can be a problem when you are defining the distribution for a report because your URL might end with the DESTINATION keyword. For example:

...DISTRIBUTE=yes 
DESTINATION=c:\oracle/reports/distribution\mydist.xml

In this scenario, the URL ends with the extension xml and Internet Explorer treats the return stream as XML, when in fact it is HTML. As a result, you will receive a browser error. To work around this issue, you should never use recognized file extensions at the end of a URL. In the example above, you could switch the positions of the DISTRIBUTE and DESTINATION keywords in your URL.

See also

About report distribution

About report sectioning and sections

Tracing report distribution

"Bursting and Distributing a Report" in the Oracle Reports Building Reports manual

"Creating Advanced Distributions" in the Oracle Application Server Reports Services Publishing Reports to the Web manual

Running and dispatching a report from the user interface

Running a report from the command line

Running a report using a command file

Deploying a report