Report distribution enables you to design a report that can generate multiple output formats and be distributed to multiple destinations from a single run of the report. You can create distributions for an entire report, and for individual sections of the report. For example, in a single run of a report, you can generate HTML output, send a PostScript version to the printer, and also e-mail any or all sections of the report to a distribution list.
To distribute a report, you first define the distribution, then enable the distribution, as described in Distributing a report to multiple destinations.
For an example of using section-level distribution, see the chapter "Bursting
and Distributing a Report" in the Oracle Reports Building Reports
manual, available on the Oracle Technology Network
Oracle Reports Documentation page (http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/reports.html
).
This chapter covers defining distribution of a single section to multiple destinations,
using the Repeat On property and distribution XML file.
MODE
system parameter can only be set to one value per the
entire report (DEFAULT
, BITMAP
, or CHARACTER
).
You can use sectioning and distribution to publish your report output in HTML, and also send a PostScript version to the printer.
You can send an executive summary of the report to senior management, and also e-mail detailed breakdowns to individual managers. In this example, a single report with two report sections needs to be created: a portrait-sized summary section and a landscape-sized detail section. Use the Repeat On property to associate the detail section with a data model group that lists the managers and then alter the destination on each instance of the data model group to send the output to the appropriate managers.
About report sectioning and sections
Distributing a report to multiple destinations
"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
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