Preface

This manual will help you get started using Oracle Reports, as well as introduce you to publishing data to the Web and paper.

Audience

This tutorial is intended for users new to Oracle Reports, or for users familiar with Oracle Reports who would like to learn more about building JSP-based Web reports.

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Related Documentation

For more information about Oracle Reports, refer to the following resources:

• Oracle Reports Building Reports

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services

• Oracle Reports online Help, which you can access in two ways:

  • From Reports Builder:

    • Choose Help > Help Contents.

    • Click Help or press F1 in any dialog box.

    • In the Property Inspector, click a property, then press F1 to display the property's help topic.

  • On the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Oracle Reports 10g page (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/reports/index.html):

    • Under Resources, click Hosted Online Help to display the Web-based version of the most recent Oracle Reports online Help.

    • Under News, click Oracle Reports Online Help Update to replace your Oracle Reports online Help in Reports Builder with the most recent update. Instructions for replacing your help file are included in the readme.txt in the download file.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
monospce italic	Monospace italic type indicates variables or user-supplied names.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.

Prerequisites

The exercises in the tutorial use the Human Resources sample schema provided with the Oracle database and an HTML template.

You must download the supporting files for the report that you will build. You can download the sample tutorial zip folder, called tutorial_examples.zip, available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN) located at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/reports/tutorial-examples-131273.zip. This zip file contains a text file containing the SQL you will enter, as well as the JSPs you will create in every chapter. Extract this zip file into ORACLE_HOME\examples (for example, D:\orawin\examples).

Sample Schema

This tutorial relies on the data contained in the Human Resources section of the sample schema. This sample schema is provided with the Oracle database.

Viewing Web Reports

To produce the Web-based report, you must have a Web browser installed on your computer. The minimum and recommended requirements are:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x or higher

or

• Netscape Communicator 4.x or higher

Viewing the Web Source

Although you can view the Web source for your JSP report in Reports Builder, this tutorial also shows you how to analyze your Web source in a text editor. It is recommended that you use a text editor such as NotePad or UltraEdit.