Click Finish. Click Close to close this page and return to Oracle Portals Oracle Reports

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12. On the Summary page, click the Show Calendar button to preview your

availability calendar. If you wish to change some settings, click the Previous button and make your changes.

13. On the Summary page, click Finish to complete the availability calendar.

The resulting page summarizes your settings for this calendar. On this page, you can edit your settings, get detailed information about the calendar, or delete it.

14. Click Close to close this page and return to Oracle Portals Oracle Reports

Security page. You can combine this calendar with other calendars or apply it as is to registered Oracle Reports Services components.

16.2.4.2 Creating a Combined Availability Calendar

A combined availability calendar combines two or more availability calendars into a single availability calendar. This is useful when you want to set up an availability period, then exclude specific days, such as holidays, from that period. When you combine calendars, you can indicate that all the days on one of them be excluded from all the days on the other. For example, one calendar could describe availability Monday through Friday; another could describe availability only on Wednesday. You could combine these, excluding the Wednesday calendar, so that the combined calendar describes availability Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Conceivably, you could create a simple calendar that covers the weekdays of an entire year, then multiple additional simple calendars, where one excludes New Years, another excludes a second holiday, another excludes a third, and so on. You could combine all these calendars, excluding all the holiday calendars, so that components were available only on the days your company is open for business, between certain times of day, throughout the year. To combine availability calendars: 1. Log in as an administrator to Oracle Portal. 2. Navigate to the Builder page.

3. Click the Administer tab.

4. Click the Oracle Reports Security Settings link in the Oracle Reports Security

portlet.

5. Click the Create Reports Combined Calendar Access link in the Reports Calendar

Access portlet. 6. Specify an internal name, display name, and Portal DB Provider for the calendar: ■ Enter a unique name in the Name field that will identify the combined availability calendar internally in Oracle Portal, for example, MY_ COMBINED_CALENDAR. This name must follow the Oracle Portal rules for a valid component name; that is: It must be no more than 30 characters It must contain only alphanumeric characters no spaces or special characters allowed. The first character must be a letter not a number. ■ Enter the name you want to display for this combined availability calendar in the Display Name field. The Display Name is the name that is exposed to your users through Oracle Portal. 16-18 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services ■ Select a Portal DB Provider from the provider list of values. All components that you add to or create in Portal must belong to a Portal DB Provider. This list contains the names of only those providers with which you have privileges to build components.

7. Click Next.

8. Optional Enter a description of the Availability Calendar in the Description field.

9. Click Next.

10. On the Selection page, highlight the calendars on the Availability Calendars list

that you want to combine. The calendars are listed by their internal names, not their display names. Use control-click Windows or click UNIX to select multiple calendars. This page lists the availability calendars that have been defined for the same Portal DB Provider under which you are creating this combined availability calendar.

11. Click the right arrow to move the selected calendars to the Selected Availability

Calendars list.

12. Click Next.

13. On the Exclude page, highlight the calendars on the Availability Calendars list

whose dates you want to exclude. Use control-click Windows or click UNIX to select multiple calendars. These are the calendars with dates on which you wish to withdraw availability.

14. Click the right arrow to move the selected calendars to the Excluded Availability

Calendars list.

15. Click Next.

16. On the Summary page, click the Show Calendar button to preview your calendar.

If your exclusion isnt showing up, select a different view. For example, instead of the monthly view, select the weekly. If you want to change the combination, close the calendar and click the Previous button one or more times to return to the desired page.

17. Click Finish to complete creation of the combined calendar.

The resulting page summarizes your settings for this calendar. On this page, you can edit your settings, get detailed information about the calendar, or delete it.

18. Click Close to close this page and return to Oracle Portals Oracle Reports

Security page. Note: The Display Name, unlike the internal Name, can have spaces in it. Note: For information on creating a Portal DB Provider, see the OracleAS Portal online Help. See Also: Section 16.2.5, The Manage Portlet for more information on the fields and descriptions listed in the Manage portlet that is, Develop, Manage, and Access tabs.