REPORTS_PATH
environment variableThis environment variable specifies the search path for files referenced by
Reports Runtime. The directories specified by REPORTS_PATH
are searched first, then those specified by ORACLE_PATH
.
This environment variable is used to locate reports and external objects that
you use in your reports, such as PL/SQL libraries, external queries, and external
boilerplate. It enables you to create reports that are easily portable across
operating systems by preventing the need to hard-code directory paths.
Define REPORTS_PATH
in the same fashion you define other environment
variables on your operating system, keeping in mind such platform-specific rules
as path length, and so on.
In addition to directory paths, you can specify the keyword DB
when you define REPORTS_PATH
.
This instructs Reports Builder to search the database to which you are currently
connected.
Suppose you specified the following on a Unix platform:
setenv REPORTS_PATH /home/tkostin/pay:/home/tkostin/receive:DB
Reports Builder will first search the directory /home/tkostin/pay
.
If it cannot find the file in question, it will search /home/tkostin/receive
.
If it still cannot find the file, it will search the database to which you connected
when you began your Reports Builder session.
Valid Values |
Any directory on any drive. |
Default |
|
REPORTS_PATH
is limited
to 256 characters.
¦If you specify a path for the sourceDir
attribute of the engine
element
in the Reports Server configuration file (server_name.conf
),
the sourceDir
value will
override the values you set here.
REPORTS_PATH=C:\oracle\apps/reports;C:\myfiles
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