1- Hands-On 07: Template

    2- Hands-On 08: Layout appearances (Boilerplate)

    3- Hands-On 09: Parameters

    4- Hands-On 10: Drill Down or Push Button report

    5- Hands-On 11: LOVs (list of values)

In this tutorial, you will see a substantial amount of Hands-On training on how to use the Report Builder tool.

Before going through your Hands-On training, lets take note of the following important definitions to remember:

• Templates are generic objects that allows you to force a set of standard features and attributes onto your reports.  They help you impose uniformity on your.

• In Hands-On 07, you will experience how to create a template

• Layout Model shows you how your report will appear.  When you run your report, Report Builder fills in the objects in the Layout Model with actual data.  The Layout Model will show you several types of layout objects and the relationships that exist between them.  The Layout Model uses symbols and graphical representations to show these relationships.

• In Hands-On 08, you will experience how to change your layout report.

• There are two types of parameters: user parameters and system parameters.

• “User parameters” will be used to manage the behavior and output of your reports.

• “System parameters” will be used to manage the report runtime behavior of your reports such as defining your output destination.

• “Parameter Form Builder” tool will be used to design your runtime parameter form.

• The Runtime Parameter Form appears whenever you run your report.

• In Hands-On 09, you will experience how to use and pass a parameter into your report.

• A drill-down report lets you get more detailed information at a different level of data aggregation.  The most common methods of drilling-down use the mouse or a button to call another report, graph, or form.

• In Hands-On 10, you will experience how to generate a drill-down report.

•  A “List of Values”, can be used as a validation mechanism for values defined in user parameters. Your LOV or “List of Values” can consist either of static values or items queried from the database using select statements.

• In Hands-On 11, you will experience how to use list of values in your report.

• The Object Navigator will be used to view report components and navigate through the report objects.  It gives you a hierarchical listing of all the modules open in your current session.  You use this listing to navigate to, and work on, those objects.  It gives you access to all database objects you own or have grant to, as well as a list of all the built-in functions and procedures you can use in Oracle Form Builder.  Clicking on the plus sign next to an object in the Object Navigator will expand the object and clicking on the minus sign will collapse the object.

• A Property Palette contains object properties.  The contents of the Property Palette are referred to as the “Property sheet” for the object.  You use the Property Palette to modify object properties.  To open the Property Palette of an object, go to the object and right click on the mouse, then select property pallete.

Now, you should first read your case study, and try to solve the questions.  Then play the Hands-On training movie until you become familiar with the subject.  For more information about the subject, you are encouraged to read from a wide selection of available books.

Good luck!