Preparing Reports for Printing

Reporting Results 6-3 Figure 6–2 Page Setup for Worksheets Print What—Specifies the sheets that you want to print. ■ Selected Sheet —Prints the current sheet displayed in the workbook. ■ All sheets —Prints all of the sheets in the workbook. ■ Graph — Prints the graph of a worksheet. This option is available only if the worksheet’s graph is displayed. Choose Graph | Show to display a graph. ■ All PageDetail Combinations —Prints all pages of a worksheet with all combinations of the page items and data points. Note: Be careful when selecting this option if your worksheet includes many pages and data items. You may print more than you intend. Page Order —Specifies how to print worksheets that don’t fit on a single page, such as a table with many columns. ■ Down, then Across —Prints the left-hand section of the table or crosstab from top to bottom on successive pages, then prints the right-hand section from top to bottom on successive pages. ■ Across, then Down —Prints the top section of the table or crosstab from left to right on successive pages, then prints the bottom section from left to right on successive pages. Orientation —Prints in either Portrait or Landscape mode. Tables and crosstabs often are better suited to the Landscape mode. Scale —This option is available if your printer uses a Postscript driver for printing. Scaling prints the table or crosstab at the scale factor in the box. Click the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the number. Scaling is particularly useful when you’re printing tables and crosstabs that are too big to fit on a single page. Scaling “shrinks” the table or crosstab so more rows and columns fit on the page. You can also configure scaling from the File ¦ Print ¦Properties, Advanced Tab dialog, if a postscript printer is being used.

2. Click the Header tab to see the options for the report’s header. The options for

footers are the same. 6-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Desktop Figure 6–3 Page Setup for Header and Footer Key to Figure 6–3 :

a. Click Insert to insert system variables such as Date, Time, or Worksheet name etc

into the Left Section, Center Section, and Right Section. Then click Add to add them to the header or footer. b. Enter text here for the header or footer, or add system variables using the Insert option. Available Headers —Lists headers you have already created. Click the drop-down arrow to see the list. Select the one you want on your report. The names are derived from the text typed into the boxes for the Left, Center, and Right sections. To create a new header or footer, choose none from the drop-down list. Enter the header text in the three boxes for the Left, Center, and Right sections. Click the Add button. That header is added to the drop-down list. To remove a header from the list, select it and click the Remove button. Line Width —Sets the width of a line that separates the header from the body of the report. Choose No Line if you don’t want a separating line on the report. Left, Center, Right Sections —Displays the text of the header selected in the Available Header list above. To edit a header, click in a box and type the new text. By default, the Left Section’s text is left-justified, the Center’s text is centered, and the Right Section’s text is right-justified. Insert —Lists information that you can add to the header. Click in the text where you want the inserted information to appear, then choose from the list to add a text code to the header or footer. The text code is a “placeholder” for variable information in the report. In the following figure, Date is the placeholder for the current date when the report is printed. Because the inserted information is in the Left Section box, the current date appears at the left side of the page on the printed report.