3-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer
Discoverer saves the worksheet in the database in the current workbook. If you use the Save As option, workbooks are always stored in the root folder.
How to preview worksheets before printing
You preview a worksheet before printing to confirm that the settings in the Print Options page produce the output you expect. For example, you might want to check
that margins, spacing, and set up options are correct before printing the worksheets.
You preview a Adobe® Portable Document Format PDF version of the worksheet. Discoverer generates either a sample PDF version of the worksheet, or a full PDF
version of the worksheet. The sample PDF version of the worksheet contains data that represents the first 50 rows of data. The full PDF version of the worksheet contains all
the rows of data.
To preview a worksheet:
1.
Display the worksheet that you want to preview.
2. Select the Printable Page link to display the
Printable Page Options page: Content tab
.
3.
optional Use the Printable Page Options page: Content tab
to change the print settings, if required.
4. Click Preview Sample to generate a sample PDF version of the worksheet and
display the PDF Sample Ready page
.
5. Click Open PDF to view sample to display the sample PDF version of the
worksheet in a separate browser window. You can view, print or save a copy of the sample PDF file from the separate
browser window.
How to print worksheets
You print a worksheet in Discoverer Viewer by generating a Portable Document Format PDF version of the worksheet and printing the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat.
Discoverer displays the PDF version of the worksheet for you to preview before you print it for more information, see
How to preview worksheets before printing .
To print a worksheet:
1.
Display the worksheet that you want to print.
2. Select the Printable Page link to display the
Printable Page Options page: Content tab
.
3.
optional Use the Printable Page Options page: Content tab
to change the print settings, if required.
4.
optional To preview a sample PDF version of the worksheet before printing the full worksheet, follow the steps in
How to preview worksheets before printing .
5.
Click Printable PDF to display the PDF Ready page
.
6. Select the Click to view or save link to display the full PDF version of the
worksheet in a separate browser window.
Note: You can now view, print, or save the PDF file.
7.
In the separate browser window displaying the PDF file, choose File | Print to display the operating system print dialog and print the PDF file.
Analyzing data with Discoverer Viewer 3-5
Discoverer prints the PDF version of the worksheet.
Exporting Discoverer worksheets
This section explains how to export worksheets in different formats, and contains the following topics:
■
How to export Discoverer worksheets
■
What are the implications of using different export formats?
■
How to configure a client machine to automatically open exported Excel files
How to export Discoverer worksheets
You export worksheet data so that you can use the data in a Discoverer worksheet in a different application. For example, you might want to produce a Discoverer worksheet
in Microsoft Excel format.
To export a Discoverer worksheet:
1. Display the worksheet that you want to export for more information, see
