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20 Creating Advanced Distributions 20-1 20 Creating Advanced Distributions When you wish to define an advanced distribution for your report, you can design the distribution by developing a distribution XML filer. In this file, you can specify the destination and format of output for each section of a report. In one distribution XML file, you can specify many different destinations, including custom pluggable destinations that you design see Section 20.4.9, destype . This chapter provides information on creating a distribution XML file and some example use cases. It includes the following main sections: ■ Distribution Overview ■ What’s New In This Release? ■ Introduction to Distribution XML Files ■ Elements of a Distribution XML File ■ Distribution XML File Examples ■ Using a Distribution XML File at Runtime ■ Limitations with Using Distribution

20.1 Distribution Overview

Although distribution XML files are not required for specifying the distribution of report output, they are useful for complex distributions. For example, there may be times when you want to publish the output of one report in a variety of ways. You might want to send an executive summary of a report to senior management while e-mailing detailed breakdowns to individual managers. In this case, you might produce a single report with two report sections: a portrait-sized summary section and a landscape-sized detail section. You would associate the detail section with a data model group that lists the managers, then alter the destination to burst the report on each instance of the group to send each departments output to its related manager. The distribution XML file simplifies distribution complexity by enabling you to define multiple outputs for a given report in one XML file, then call that file from a command line or URL. Note: An example distribution XML file distribution.xml is shipped with Oracle Reports in the ORACLE_ HOMEreportssamplesdemo directory. You can reuse this file for your own purposes so that you do not have to create one from scratch.