About Embedded Content From Reference Doclets

What is embedded content? Embedded content starts with common report content created by reference doclet authors and contained in a reference doclet. This common content becomes available content to doclet authors. Using Oracle Smart View for Office or the web, doclet authors embed content into doclets that are part of the published report in Word- or PowerPoint-based report packages.

As a reference doclet author, you create report content, and then define it as available content. In Excel-based reference doclets, you use Excel’s named range functionality. In Management Reporting-based reference doclets, you use the Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud web interface. After upload and checkin, the content is ready for doclet authors to consume.

As a doclet author, you might think of a reference doclet as a data source of embedded content. A report package can contain multiple reference doclets. You can embed the available content from multiple reference doclets in multiple doclets in a report package.

Whenever a reference doclet author checks in a reference doclet, Smart View or the web interface, the system automatically refreshes any doclet that has embedded content.

Whenever a doclet author checks in a doclet that has embedded content, the system automatically refreshes the embedded content in the doclet.

As the underlying data source of the report is updated, you can view the changes the next time you open or refresh the reference doclets and doclets containing embedded content.

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For reference doclet authors: Reference doclets are part of a report package, and they are maintained within the report package. Reference doclets have the same support as any other doclet in a report package such as workflow, security, and versioning.

The basic process flow for working with reference doclets and embedded content is as follows:

1. In the web interface, the report package owner adds Excel- and Management Reporting-based reference doclets to the report package. See the Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud documentation for details.

   The reference doclets can already contain report content and, in the case of Excel-based reference doclets, named ranges. Reference doclet authors and doclet authors can also add named ranges later, during the authoring process.

2. In Smart View or from the web interface, Excel-based reference doclet authors create report content and define named ranges for data and other content, such as tables, graphs, and charts, to include in a report package.

   In the web interface, Management Reporting-based reference doclet authors can add tables or graphs in the report as available content.

   Multiple available content objects can be created within a single reference doclet. For example, you can create more than one named range in a reference doclet.

3. Reference doclet authors upload and check in reference doclets, thus making the report content available to doclet authors.

4. Doclet authors embed content from the reference doclets in their assigned doclets.

In Smart View, you begin the process with Defining Named Ranges in Excel-based Reference Doclets.

In the Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud web interface, see the Management Reporting documentation.