Worksheet Tabs. Oracle Fusion Middleware Online Documentation Library

What You See on the Screen 2-3 Figure 2–2 Tool Tips and Status Bar Key to Figure 2–2 :

a. When a pointer is on a button, the button enlarges and displays its tool tip,

Conditions in this example. b. The status bar also explains what tools are used for. Axis Items - The page axis, top axis, and left axis on the workbook window represent the data in your database that have a relatively few, discrete values associated with them. Typical axis items are Sales Regions, Cities, Year, Company Department, Product Name, Salesperson Name, and so on. Sales Region, for example, usually has only a few values associated with it: North, South, Central, West. Axis items represent data that you can pivot on a crosstab worksheet or that can be column headings on a table. Another way of thinking about axis items is that they are the items that would appear on the axes of a graph. When creating a new worksheet, you identify the data that become axis items. Data Points - The data points of a table or crosstab are the data in the “body” of the worksheet. Data points are the data that you want to use for analysis purposes or to see listed on a table. On a crosstab worksheet, the data is almost always numerical, such as monthly profits or sales amounts by product. Table worksheets, on the other hand, are better for listing text and numeric information. Mailing lists of customers or product part number lists are typical table worksheets. Worksheet Tabs - Click to open or view the various worksheets in the workbook. If you’ve already opened the worksheet, it appears right away. If you haven’t opened the worksheet yet, Discoverer Desktop gets it from the business area and then displays it. You can rename these tabs. Tab Scroll Buttons - Click to scroll through the worksheet tabs in the workbook, then click on the tab of the worksheet you want to see. Page Scroll Bars - If the worksheet is larger than the screen, it extends off the edges of the screen. Click the scroll bars to see the rest of the worksheet.

2.2 The Four Types of Display

You can display data in four different ways on the workbook window: ■ Table and Page-Detail Table ■ Crosstab and Page-Detail Crosstab

2.2.1 Table Layout

The most familiar layout for data, a table, lists data in rows and columns. Typical data for tables includes lists, such as a mailing list of customers sorted by zip code or