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Creating and Managing Reports
This chapter introduces reports and how to work with them. This chapter contains the following topics:
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Section 3.1, Introduction to Report Creation and Delivery
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Section 3.2, Creating Tiled Reports
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Section 3.3, Creating Columnar Reports
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Section 3.4, Saving Reports
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Section 3.5, Renaming Reports
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Section 3.6, Editing Reports
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Section 3.7, Deleting Reports
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Section 3.8, E-mailing Reports
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Section 3.9, Printing Reports
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Section 3.10, Copying Report URLs
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Section 3.11, Saving Reports Offline
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Section 3.12, Viewing Reports
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Section 3.13, Responding to Report Prompts
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Section 3.14, Pausing and Playing Active Data
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Section 3.15, Adding Oracle BAM Reports to Web Pages
3.1 Introduction to Report Creation and Delivery
You create reports in Oracle BAM Active Studio for viewing, sharing with other users, and for delivery by alerts based on information or conditions changing within the
report or data objects on which it is based. Reports can contain one or more views of point-in-time or real-time information active data. Active data means the display
continues to update as the data changes are received in the Oracle BAM Active Data Cache.
When designing reports, you can choose from a variety of template layouts. You might want to include two or more views in a single report. Each view is formatted to show
information from a data object in a view type such as a list, chart, or key process indicator KPI. Creating reports also includes selecting data sources, choosing data
fields, sorting, filtering, and formatting the information.
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The information displayed in a report is from data currently in the data object used in the report. Data objects are created in Oracle BAM Architect and stored in the Oracle
BAM Active Data Cache. The data designer manages data objects using Oracle BAM Architect. More information about data objects is available in Creating Oracle BAM
Data Objects in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle SOA Suite.
You can share reports with other Oracle BAM Active Studio users by creating folders containing reports in the Shared Reports page. Assign permissions to allow users to
view, create, or delete reports in a particular folder. More information about folders and permissions is available in
Chapter 10, Organizing and Sharing Reports. After creating reports, you can create alert rules that monitor data related to specific
reports and send alerts to users. Alert rules can include conditions to launch the alert when data in a report changes, when its a certain time, or when other events occur.
You can deliver reports through alerts to users by e-mail containing report URLs or graphic renderings of the report. See Creating Oracle BAM Alerts in Oracle Fusion
Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle SOA Suite for information about creating alerts.
3.2 Creating Tiled Reports
