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Viewed1000+ timesYou Asked I have been working with the Oracle Database for several years now, but have recently taken a position with a company implementing Oracle Financials. As part of the implementation, a mandate has been made to minimize customizations (no new forms), but report enhancement is necessary.

I took the course on Oracle Reports Developer, and now I'd like to start working on report customization. I've spent the last couple weeks sifting through documentation, and to my knowledge I have been unable to find anywhere where oracle talks about modifying existing reports when your Apps server is on a different platform from your desktops.

Basically, I need to take the report executable from a UNIX box, and transfer it along with any attached libraries to my developer environment (Windows NT 4.0). How do I go about doing this? Correct me if I am wrong, but if I just use FTP, I have a problem with differet compiled versions (Unix as opposed to NT). I see the same problem arising if I create a new report for use with Oracle Apps.

Can you point me in the direction of how to proceed, or to documentation that I may have missed that would be of use?

Thanks a million!

Rory Monteith

Programmer

and Tom said...In reports, the .rdf files may be transferred between platforms. The compiled version of the reports are .rep files. Reports can run directly off of the rdf files as well as the compiled rep files. For the libraries, you need the .pll files to move across platforms.

Make sure to issue "BIN" in ftp !

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I am designing a new report using oracle reports builder that comes with 10g. I have many columns to be inserted horizontally. But I couldn't increase the page width of the body section beyond 8.5 inches. But I can see the page width of some existing reports to be more than 16 inches. How do I increase the page width?. I have been googling for an hour but couldn't find anything useful. I have tried tinkering with the settings at,

In the Object Navigator window, open up the Layout Model node. Then double-click on the Main Section node to bring up its properties in the Property Palette window. There you will find Width, which defaults to 8.5, and Height, which defaults to 11.

Tony's answer shows how to adjust the width of the report. If you want to adjust the margin, then open up the Layout Model, click on the button "Edit Margin" (visit the tooltips to identify the button), click on the thick black border and then adjust the margin by dragging the small white square.

I can not connect to my oracle instances while in Report Developer. I get a message that says : REP-0501 Unable to connect to specified database ORA-12154: TNS: could not resolve service name. I assume this means that my tnsnames.ora file is not pointing to a legitimate instance. I have done a Windows search of my entire hard drive and updated each and every tnsnames.ora file. I know that the Report developer executable is orantBINRWBLD60.EXE. Can someone identify exactly where the Report Developer is looking for the connection file(tnsnames)?

Dear

You have a tnsnames.ora file in the following folder :

orantnet80admin

you have to go there and define your database connection parameters.

Then, your report builder will be working fine.

Best regards

Mohamed El-Halwagy

www.oratech-soft.com

Egypt

I forgot to mention that where it looks will depend upon your sqlnet.ora

file found in the same location. If it has entries other than tnsnames to

resolve the connection, then it could possible search your network for a

file. Even if tnsnames is the only entry, it can (and does) find other

tnsnames.ora files on your local computer. (make sure all of your tnsnames

files have the necessary entries in this case)

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Report parameters are created with default property values that you might need to modify. For example, each report parameter is data type Text. After the report parameters are created, you might have to change default values.

Before you can connect an Oracle data source, the system administrator must have installed the version of the .NET Data Provider for Oracle that supports retrieving data from the Oracle database. This data provider must be installed on the same computer as Power BI Report Builder and also on machine hosting Power BI Gateway. For more information, see Manage your data source - Oracle.

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SQL Server Reporting Service also known as SSRS is a reporting tool of Microsoft that helps to develop various reports types. In addition, a few months ago Microsoft announced the first release candidate of SQL Server 2019 Reporting Service. This means that SSRS is still a powerful tool in the market and at the same time it plays a key role for companies who need to build custom reports and mobile reports.

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The Adventureworks human resources department required a report about the employees who are working in the company. They want to see the identity number, birth date, marital status and gender of the employee in the report. Furthermore, they want to filter the employees according to their job titles. They sent a draft about the report which is illustrated below:

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