Advanced Reporting And Charting With Oracle Application Express 4.0
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Oracle Application Express (APEX) 4.0 includes enhancements to interactive reporting, flash charts, and report printing capabilities. Interactive reports now feature a search bar, actions menu for formatting and exporting, and the ability to save customized report views. Flash charts have been updated to use the new AnyChart 5 engine, providing additional chart types like gauges and gantt charts. Report printing leverages Oracle BI Publisher or Apache FOP for high-fidelity output to PDF, Word, and other formats from APEX applications and reports. A demonstration shows these updated features in action.
Advanced Reporting And Charting With Oracle Application Express 4.0
- 2. <Insert Picture Here> Advanced Reporting and Charting with Oracle Application Express 4.0 Marc Sewtz | Software Development Manager | Oracle Application Express Oracle USA Inc. 520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 marc.sewtz@oracle.com
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- 4. Agenda • Oracle APEX 4.0 - Overview • Interactive Report Enhancements • Updated Flash Charts • Report Printing • Demonstration
- 6. Oracle Application Express Overview • Unique Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for the Oracle Database • Browser based for Development, Deployment and Use • Allows to declaratively build professional Web 2.0 applications that are fast and secure • Leverages full Oracle database capabilities and existing SQL & PL/SQL skills • Standard component of the database • Fully supported, “no-cost” option with all editions of the Oracle Database Easy to develop • Easy to deploy • Easy to manage
- 7. Oracle APEX – Typical Use Cases Data-driven Applications Oracle Forms Develop opportunistic and departmental Modernization productivity applications Leverage SQL & PL/SQL declarative programming skills to move Forms applications to HTML / Web 2.0 Online Reporting Build SQL-based reporting applications on existing database schemas Spreadsheet Web-ification Access Replacement Consolidate outgrown Access applications Convert spreadsheets to Web applications to the Oracle database with an APEX Web where they can be concurrently viewed and front end edited
- 8. Oracle APEX - Architecture
- 9. Oracle APEX – Multi-Tenancy
- 10. Oracle APEX – Deployment Options Multi-tenant and browser-based architecture allows for Hosted Service deployment anywhere (dedicated or multi-tenant) Corporate IT / Enterprise Service (dedicated or multi-tenant) Departmental Server Local Database (Oracle XE)
- 11. Oracle APEX – Development Features Reports Validations Translation Services Forms Processes Conditional Processing Charts Computations Authentication Calendar Branches Authorization Templates Web Services Session State Management Navigation Email Services Logging & Monitoring
- 13. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Interactive Reports • Out-of-the-box declarative Web 2.0 reporting
- 14. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Interactive Reports • Search Bar • Quick Text-Search on all or select columns • Actions Menu Button • Actions Menu • Formatting • Number of Rows • Charting • Saving & Sharing • Exporting • Column Sorting and Filtering • Column-Header menu for easy Sorting, Filtering and Break-Formatting • More granular control via Actions Menu
- 15. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Interactive Reports • Control Break, Highlighting, Compute Columns and Aggregate • Saving and sharing of customized reports • Saving Interactive Report customizations for future use • Sharing with other users by saving reports as public • Selection via Saved-Reports select list in Actions Menu • Logging of Search Criteria • Notification • Scheduled notification • Email send to user including static HTML version of report data • Report, Detail and Icon View • Single-Row View • Charts
- 16. D E M O N S T R A T I O N Oracle APEX 4.0 Interactive Reports
- 18. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts • Updated Charting Engine using AnyChart 5 • New Flash Chart Regions • Updated Interactive Reports, replacing AnyChart 4 with AnyChart 5 • AnyChart 3 and SVG based chart region types deprecated
- 19. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts • Column - , Horizontal Bar - , Pie - & Doughnut Charts
- 20. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts • Scatter -, Candlestick and Line Charts
- 21. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts • Gauges, Gantt Charts & Maps
- 22. Oracle APEX 4.0 –Interactive Reports Charts • Interactive Reports – built-in Flash Charts • Updated to AnyChart 5
- 23. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts • New Create Page and Create Region Wizard for charts • Gallery of charts types • Additional chart attributes, minimizing need for XML customization • Declarative action link attribute • Combined Charts • Available Multi-Series Bar and Column Charts • Add additional series using Bar -, Line - or Marker Charts • Gantt charts included in the Chart wizard • Project and resource chart • Specific Gantt Chart attributes • “Migrate to New Flash Chart” • Migrate option for SVG and AnyChart 3 based charts
- 24. Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts • New Create Page and Create Region Wizard for Maps • Oracle APEX 4.0 includes AnyChart map charts • Over 300 different maps • Tree view for easy selection of the desired map • Support for multiple chart series queries
- 25. D E M O N S T R A T I O N Updated Flash Charts
- 26. <Insert Picture Here> Report Printing
- 27. Oracle APEX with Oracle BI Publisher • BI Publisher 10.1.3.2.1 or above • APEX calls “convert” Servlet through utl_http • Supports XSL-FO and RTF based templates • Template design using MS Word Plug-In • Output to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML and XML
- 28. Oracle APEX with Apache FOP • Full Oracle Support using Oracle Containers for J2EE (10.1.3.2) or above • APEX calls apex_fop.jsp through utl_http • Supports XSL-FO based templates • Template design using third party tools • Output to PDF and XML *) *) other output formats supported using custom FOP code
- 29. Oracle APEX Report Printing • Report Queries • Report generation based on one or more query result sets • WYSIWIG report design using Template Builder for MS Word • Inclusion of data driven charts and images • Referencing application session data • Interactive Reports • Export of interactive report data to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML and XML • Classic Reports • Easy report printing using customizable generic report layouts • Full support for custom RTF layouts
- 30. Oracle APEX Report Customization • Report Design with the BI Publisher Template Builder • Export report data as XML data file or XML schema definition <?xml version="1.0"?> <ROWSET> <ROW num="1"> <EMPNO>100</EMPNO> <ENAME>Jo Bloggs</ENAME> <JOB>CLERK</JOB> <SAL>100</SAL> <DNAME>ACCOUNTING</DNAME> </ROW> <ROW num="2"> <EMPNO>100</EMPNO> <ENAME>Jane Doe</ENAME> <JOB>CLERK</JOB> <SAL>100</SAL> </ROW> ... </ROWSET>
- 31. Oracle APEX Report Customization • Report Design Template Builder Menu • Load XML file into the BI Publisher Template Builder • Insert report objects as fields, table or charts using wizards • Save layout as RTF file • Deploy to APEX and associate with report query or report region Insert Table/Form dialog Inserted table structure
- 32. Oracle APEX Report Customization • Creating a PDF Report with Multiple Queries and Charts • Create report query in APEX containing multiple result sets • Design RTF Template combining one or more reports and charts
- 33. D E M O N S T R A T I O N High-Fidelity Report Printing
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