Click the Access tab and select the Publish as Portlet box. This adds the report to Click Customize to view the reports Runtime Parameter Form.

16-14 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services ■ Select the Portal DB Provider that will own the printer from the Portal DB Provider list of values. The Portal DB Providers displayed are those in which you have privileges to build components.

7. Click Next.

8. On the resulting page, fill in desired values: ■ In the OS Printer Name field, enter the operating system printer name, for example: UNIX: printer_name Windows: \\printer_server\printer_name for a remote printer printer_name for a local printer This printer must be available to the Reports Server. ■ Optional Enter a description of the Printer in the Description field. 9. Click Next. 10. Optional Select an Availability calendar to restrict the days and times the printer can be used.

11. Click Finish.

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

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

Security page. You have completed registering a printer with Oracle Portal. This registration is meaningful for reports that are run through Oracle Portal as well as those run outside of Oracle Portal. Note: The Display Name, unlike the internal Name, can have spaces in it. Note: All components you add to or create in Oracle Portal must belong to a Portal DB Provider. Refer to the OracleAS Portal online Help, for more information on how to create a Portal DB Provider. Note: Printer availability is set through the operating system on the Report Servers host machine. See Also: Section 16.2.4, Creating an Availability Calendar 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. Deploying Reports in Oracle Portal 16-15

16.2.4 Creating an Availability Calendar

Defining availability calendars is an optional step that enables you to further restrict access to reports, servers, and printers by specifying when they can and cannot be accessed. Availability calendars are not necessary if the reports, the Reports Servers, and printers are always available for processing. This section provides information on: ■ Creating a Simple Availability Calendar ■ Creating a Combined Availability Calendar You can associate only one availability calendar with a report, a Reports Server, or a printer. If your production environment requires more than one availability rule, then you can combine availability calendars.

16.2.4.1 Creating a Simple Availability Calendar

A simple availability calendar defines a single availability rule for example, Sunday through Saturday from 12:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.. To create a simple availability calendar: 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 Simple Calendar Access link in the Reports Calendar

Access portlet on the Oracle Reports Security page.

6. On the resulting page, the Name internal name and Portal DB Provider fields

contain default values. To include custom values: ■ Enter a unique name in the Name field that will identify the availability calendar internally in Oracle Portal, for example, MY_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. ■ In the Display Name field, enter the name you want to display for this availability calendar when it is exposed through Oracle Portal. Unlike the internal name, the display name can have spaces in it. ■ Select a Portal DB Provider from the provider list of values. All components added to or created in Oracle 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.

Note: For information on creating a Portal DB Provider, see the OracleAS Portal online Help.