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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 [email protected]
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Agenda
• Oracle APEX 4.0 - Overview
• Interactive Report Enhancements
• Updated Flash Charts
• Report Printing
• Demonstration
Oracle APEX 4.0
Overview
Easy to develop • Easy to deploy • Easy to manage
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
Data-driven ApplicationsDevelop opportunistic and departmental productivity applications
Online ReportingBuild SQL-based reporting applications on existing database schemas
Access ReplacementConsolidate outgrown Access applications to the Oracle database with an APEX Web front end
Spreadsheet Web-ificationConvert spreadsheets to Web applications where they can be concurrently viewed and edited
Oracle Forms Modernization
Leverage SQL & PL/SQL declarative programming skills to move Forms applications to HTML / Web 2.0
Oracle APEX – Typical Use Cases
Oracle APEX - Architecture
Oracle APEX – Multi-Tenancy
Oracle APEX – Deployment Options
Multi-tenant and browser-based architecture allows for deployment anywhere Hosted Service
(dedicated or multi-tenant)
Corporate IT / Enterprise Service (dedicated or multi-tenant)
Departmental Server
Local Database (Oracle XE)
Oracle APEX – Development Features
Reports
Forms
Charts
Calendar
Templates
Navigation
Validations
Processes
Computations
Branches
Web Services
Email Services
Translation Services
Conditional Processing
Authentication
Authorization
Session State Management
Logging & Monitoring
Interactive Report Enhancements
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Interactive Reports
• Out-of-the-box declarative Web 2.0 reporting
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
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
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
Oracle APEX 4.0Interactive Reports
Updated Flash Charts
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
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts
• Column - , Horizontal Bar - , Pie - & Doughnut Charts
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts• Scatter -, Candlestick and Line Charts
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts
• Gauges, Gantt Charts & Maps
• Interactive Reports – built-in Flash Charts• Updated to AnyChart 5
Oracle APEX 4.0 –Interactive Reports Charts
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
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
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
Updated Flash Charts
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Report Printing
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
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
• 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
Oracle APEX Report Printing
• Report Design with the BI Publisher Template Builder• Export report data as XML data file or XML schema definition
Oracle APEX Report Customization
<?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>
Template Builder Menu
Oracle APEX Report Customization
Insert Table/Form dialog
Inserted table structure
• Report Design• 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
• 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
Oracle APEX Report Customization
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
High-Fidelity Report Printing
Information:
http://otn.oracle.com/apex
Hosted Development:
http://apex.oracle.com
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