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Preface

The examples in this book are intended to help you learn about Oracle Reports and its features.

## Intended audience

This book is intended for anyone who uses Report Builder to build reports. The needs of both novice and advanced users are addressed. Each chapter contains step-by-step instructions to build a report from start to finish. Each report that you build will demonstrate how to use many of the powerful features in Report Builder.

## Structure

This book contains the following chapters:

##### Table 0-1 Summary of manual contents

Chapter | Description
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Chapter 1, "Basic Report Builder Concepts" | Contains basic information to get you started.
Chapter 2, "Building a Report with Conditional Formatting" | Describes how to build a report that uses conditional formatting so that the appearance of your report automatically changes when certain specified criteria are met.
Chapter 3, "Building and Applying Report Templates" | Describes how to create a template and apply it to a report. Templates define common characteristics and objects in a report. When you apply a template to a report, the report takes on the characteristics defined in the template.
Chapter 4, "Building a Report for the Web" | Describes how to create an HTML report that can be viewed on the web, including how to configure Web Settings properties.
Chapter 5, "Building a Report with Sections" | Describes how to define report sections, and how to specify different distribution criteria for these sections.
Chapter 6, "Building a Report with Ref Cursor Queries" | Describes how to define a ref cursor query, which uses PL/SQL to fetch data.
Chapter 7, "Building a Report Using Express Data" | Describes how to build and edit a report using Express data, and how to add custom measures.

## Notational conventions

The following conventions are used in this book:

##### Table 0-2 Notational conventions used in manual

Convention | Meaning
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boldface text | Used for emphasis. Also used for menu items, button names, labels, and other user interface elements.
italicized text | Used to introduce new terms.
`courier font` | Used for path and file names, and for code and text that you type.
`COURIER CAPS` | Used for: File extensions (.`PLL` or .`FMX`) Environment variables SQL commands Built-ins/package names Executable names

## Additional information in online help

Some of the tasks in this manual tell you how to access online help for additional information. If you see a table like the one that follows, use the steps to get more information about the task you are performing:

| For online help on this topic, choose Help->Report Builder Help Topics On the Index page, type... report wizard, about Then click Display to view the help topicc... Report Wizard: Welcome page

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