Running and dispatching a report from the user interface

How To... 4-31 ■ Changing orientation ■ Suppressing the Parameter Form ■ Viewing report output ■ Printing a Report ■ E-mailing a report

4.7.1 Running and dispatching a report from the user interface

To run and dispatch a report from the Oracle Reports Builder user interface:

1. In the Object Navigator, click the report name, or choose File Open to open it.

2. If you are not already connected, connect to a database. 3. Click the Run Paper Layout button in the toolbar. 4. If the Runtime Parameter Form displays, specify settings for the desired output: ■ To preview output in the Paper Design view using screen fonts: set Destination Type to Screen. ■ To preview output in the Paper Design view using screen fonts and size the fonts using the printer font metrics: set Destination Type to Preview. ■ To send output to a file: set Destination Type to File, Destination Name to the path and filename, Destination Format to the output format for the report for example, PDF, HTML, HTMLCSS, RTF, XML, or DELIMITED for bitmapped reports, or the character-mode printer definition file .prt file for character-mode reports. ■ To send output to a printer: set Destination Type to Printer and Destination Name to the printer driver name. ■ To send output through e-mail using your Internet standard protocol SMTP e-mail application: set Destination Type to Mail and leave Destination Name blank. In the Mail dialog box, specify the recipients and subject line for your e-mail report. Note: When you create the report, you must use the Parameter Form Builder choose Tools Parameter Form Builder to select the system and user parameters you want to appear in the Runtime Parameter Form. Note: It is not possible to generate spreadsheet output directly from Oracle Reports Builder. Instead, on the command line, you can run the report using rwrun and Reports Server clients rwclient, rwservlet, with DESFORMAT=SPREADSHEET or DESFORMAT=ENHANCEDSPREADSHEET. 4-32 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports 5. In the Runtime Parameter Form, click the Run Report button in the toolbar. 6. If a dialog box appears, enter required information. Usage notes ■ If you want the orientation of the report to be landscape, you must change the orientation for the report see Section 4.7.14, Changing orientation . However, if your printer does not support the specified page size, you may get truncated results. To enable character-mode printers to support landscape or other page sizes, you can set printer escape sequences in the printer definition files. Refer to your printer documentation for the escape sequences to use. ■ When you view the report output in Microsoft Word, you must choose View Page Layout to see all the graphics and objects in your report. See also Section 4.11.6, Selecting parameters to include in the Runtime Parameter Form

4.7.2 Running a report from the command line