Click Next. Exporting to Oracle Reports

6-12 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Desktop Figure 6–13 Sample Table and Report Key to Figure 6–13 :

a. The Discoverer Desktop Worksheet.

b. The Worksheet converted to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format .xls and

displayed in Microsoft Excel. c. Notice that unformatted data is displayed. Currency symbols, decimal places, and percentage formatting are not displayed. This formatting can be re-applied in Microsoft Excel.

6.4 Producing Scheduled Reports

Scheduled reports are workbooks set to run at a specified time. For example, you may want to run a worksheet at the end of each month that calculates monthly profits from monthly sales figures, or run a report every two weeks based on a worksheet that produces a biweekly cash flow analysis. Often, worksheets that you want to use as scheduled reports are designed specifically for that purpose, rather than being a worksheet for your day-to-day analysis. For example, the worksheet may include special calculations or conditions that produce the results you want for the scheduled report on a periodic basis only. You can select all or some of the worksheets in a workbook to run as a scheduled report. Typically you schedule reports if: ■ The report will take a long time to run; scheduling a report to run at night or on the weekend avoids overburdening the server during normal working hours. ■ You run a report at regular intervals, such as weekly report of sales figures or a monthly cash flow analysis. Because a scheduled report runs on the server, you do not need to leave your computer running overnight or whenever you schedule the report to run. The results Reporting Results 6-13 of running the scheduled report are saved on the server as well and, therefore, are available when you log on to the server and start Discoverer Desktop. To schedule a report:

1.

Open the workbook that contains the worksheets that you want to schedule to run as reports. 2. Choose File | Schedule. The Schedule Workbook dialog box appears. Figure 6–14 Schedule Workbook Dialog Box, Step 1

3. Select in the check box next to a worksheet title to include that worksheet as part

of the scheduled report. ■ Click Select All to include all of the workbook’s worksheets in the report. ■ Click Select None to clear each check box. 4. Enter the time and date to run the report. To change the time and date, click on the numbers you want to change, then either type the new time or date, or click the up and down arrows. For example, to change 08:00 PM to 12:01 AM, click on the 08 and either type 12 or click the up arrow until 08 becomes 12. Then click on the 00 and type 01 or click the up arrow once. Then click on PM and click either arrow; PM changes to AM.

5. Select one of the options for how often you want to repeat the schedule:

Never —runs the scheduled report once and only once. Note: When working with a complex set of data or a complicated worksheet, the time it takes to load the worksheet may exceed the time limit the Database Administrator set for worksheets to open. In that case, a Schedule button appears on the message box that tells you the worksheet loading time exceeds its time limit. You can then click the Schedule button to schedule the worksheet as a report so it will load later without being restricted by the time limit.