


On the Style page, type a Title for your report, select Tabular, then click Next. On the Report Type page, select Create Paper Layout Only, then click Next. If the Welcome page displays, click Next. In the Welcome or New Report dialog box, select Use the Report Wizard, then click OK. Launch Reports Builder (or, if already open, choose File > New > Report). Using the wizard enables you to define the layout for the report, as well as set the data definition. To build the simple report in this example, you can use the Report Wizard. When you create a report, you can either use the Report Wizard to assist you or create the report yourself. ĥ.2 Use the Report Wizard to create a report
#TABLEAU TABULAR REPORT HOW TO#
For details on how to open it, see "Accessing the Example Reports" in the Preface. To see a sample tabular report, open the examples folder named tabular, then open the Oracle Reports example named tabular.rdf. Oracle Reports will create all other necessary objects (for example, groups and columns) by default. Use the Report Wizard to create a report with a paper layout that includes one query to select all of the columns displayed in this report.
#TABLEAU TABULAR REPORT SERIES#
The tabular layout displays data in a series of columns running down the page, with the column headings displayed directly above the columns.Īs you build this example report, you will: If you do not, Oracle Reports will fetch the data but will not display it you may receive an error message, depending on whether you choose paper or Web layout.įor this example report, you will use the tabular layout style, which is one of eight styles provided by Oracle Reports. If you select two or more columns with the same name, the first column is given the default name, the second column is given the default name with a 1 appended to it (for example, Deptno, Deptno1, and so on).īefore you can run your report, you must specify the layout (that is, the format) of the report output. The default column names are generated from the database column names or replaced by any aliases specified in your SELECT statement. By default, the columns appear in the order in which you enter them in your SELECT statement. For example, if the first field of the table EMPLOYEE is FIRSTNAME, then the default group name is G_FIRSTNAME.įor each database column you specify in the query's SELECT statement, Oracle Reports creates a report column and assigns it to the group. The default group name is G_ fieldname, where fieldname is the first field of the table specified in the query. The default query names are Q_1, Q_2, and so on. Although this example report uses only one query, reports can contain any number of queries.įor each query you create, Oracle Reports automatically creates one default group. Generally, the first step is to define the data Oracle Reports should fetch from the database by creating a query that contains a SELECT statement. In this example, the column labels Department Id, Department Name, Manager Id, and Location Id are derived from the columns in your SQL SELECT statement, but you can modify column labels as you wish. The report output is organized in a multicolumn, multirow format, with each column corresponding to a column in the database table.

Description of "Figure 5-1 Tabular report output"Ī tabular report is the most basic type of report you can build.
