About tabular reports About group above reports About group left reports About form-like reports

Basic Concepts 1-5 See also Section 2.2, Web Reports Section 1.9.4, About Parameter Forms for Web reports Section 2.8.8, About HTML and HTMLCSS output Section 2.8.10, About PDF output Section 4.6.1, Creating a Web report Section 4.7.16.4, Displaying report output in your Web browser Section 4.7.17.3, Printing a report from your Web browser

1.3 Report Styles

The topics in this section describe the built-in report styles in Oracle Reports Builder. ■ About tabular reports ■ About group above reports ■ About group left reports ■ About form-like reports ■ About form letter reports ■ About mailing label reports ■ About matrix reports

1.3.1 About tabular reports

A tabular report is the most basic type of report. Each column corresponds to a column selected from the database. See also Section 4.5.1, Creating a report

1.3.2 About group above reports

A group above report contains multiple groups in its data model. It is a masterdetail report, where there may be a lot of information in the master group. For every master group, the related values of the detail groups are fetched from the database and are displayed below the master information. See also Section 4.5.1, Creating a report Section 1.7.2, About groups Note: If Netscape 7.0 is your default browser, and the browser does not display, set the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_ USERS\Software\Oracle\Toolkit\Tkbrowser to the default browser location. Ensure that the BrowserName and the BrowserPath keys reflect the correct values. For example: BrowserName=Netscape 7; BrowserPath=C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape\Netscp.exe. 1-6 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports Section 4.8.7, Creating a break group

1.3.3 About group left reports

A group left report also contains multiple groups in its data model, dividing the rows of a table based on a common value in one of the columns. Use this type of report to restrict a column from repeating the same value several times while values of related columns change. The data model for group above and group left reports is the same, but the layouts differ; group above reports display the master information at the top while group left reports display break columns to the side. See also Section 4.5.1, Creating a report Section 1.7.2, About groups Section 4.8.7, Creating a break group

1.3.4 About form-like reports

A form-like report displays one record per page, displaying field values to the right of field labels. See also Section 4.5.1, Creating a report

1.3.5 About form letter reports