Report packages are comprised of subcomponents called doclets and supplemental doclets.
Doclets contain the content you require for the report that you’re creating with an Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service report package. A report package can consist of one or more doclets. Word-based report packages contain Word-based doclets; PowerPoint-based report packages contain PowerPoint-based doclets.
Doclets participate fully in report package workflow, including all author phases, review phases, sign off, and report publishing.
Supplemental doclets are documents which assist in the development of the overall report, such as source and reference files. Supplemental doclets can be of Office file types, such as Excel, Word, or PowerPoint; or of non-Office file types, such as PDF, TXT, or ZIP. Content from supplemental doclets is not merged into the combined report.
Supplemental doclets of any file type can be included in both Word-based and PowerPoint-based report packages. For example, Word-based supplemental doclets can be included in Word- or PowerPoint-based report packages.
In Smart View, supplemental doclets support the content management and workflow features of the author phase as follows:
Word- and PowerPoint-based supplemental doclets can be checked out, modified, uploaded, checked in, submitted for approval, and approved or rejected.
For supplemental doclets of all other file types, Smart View gives assigned authors easy access to download and view files. However, any other interactions with the files, such as checkout, upload, and checkin, must be performed through the Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service web interface.
Note that supplemental doclets of any file type are not available for commenting in the review or sign off phase, and they are not part of the final published report.