Alternatives to Discoverer for simple reporting

Hi,
I was wondering if there are any simple, low cost ( Oracle or 3rd party ) alternatives to Discoverer as a means for simple reporting against Oracle Databases
Oracle seem to be going the ( more costly ) BI Standard Edition One route as their replacement to what was good old simple Discoverer.
The beauty of Discoverer was that it was intended to be simple intuitive Reporting Tool for end users with little technical / sql knowledge.
I am just wondering what alternatives now sit in that space ?
thanks,
Jim

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please check in CS02 if those top level BOm's which dont show alternative BOm number in CS15, do they really have alternatives?
the most probale reaosn why alternative is not shown is they dont have any alternate BOM or they are variant BOMs.
please check.

Database - Best tool for making report

Hi everybody,
We're developping an application with HTML-DB. Our users want to extract some reports.Those users are used to work MS-Excel to make reports.
My question is what is the best tool for producing this kind of reports ?
Is it with HTML DB (report), Discoverer or Oracle Reports ?
Thank you. Bye.

The answer, as with all of ORacle's products, is "It depends".
Oracle Discoverer, once set up, is very easy to use as a 'developer' and as a 'report recipient' across the web. Looks and feels like Excel. Personally my first choice for a medium user to power user level from a 'create reports' perspective. Prepare to have a Disco Administrator, but that is usually a 'power user' rather than an IT guru.
Oracle Reports is much more powerful, useful for high-end reporting and control of reporting such as multi-bursting to individual printers, caching, PDF and CSS generation - but it requires a person who is interested in becoming competent at reports. It's also a bit of a bear to set up.
A lot of reports can be accomplished using SQLPlus or iSQLPlus. Too many people are not aware of the power of the environment and end up going for high-end tools when SQLPlus will do.
HTMLDB is OK and designed to be simple. I haven't used it much, so I'm the wrong person to comment.

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Hello,
I´m trying running this simple report on oracle developer:
TTITLE LEFT 'Run date: ' CURRENT_DATE CENTER 'Run by the' SQL.USER 'user'
RIGHT 'Page:' FORMAT 999 SQL.PNO SKIP 2
BTITLE CENTER 'Thanks for running the report' RIGHT 'Page: 'FORMAT 999 SQL.PNO
SET ECHO OFF
SET VERIFY OFF
SET PAGESIZE 100
SET LINESIZE 100
CLEAR COLUMNS
COLUMN product_id HEADING ID FORMAT 99
COLUMN name HEADING 'Product Name' FORMAT A20 WORD_WRAPPED
COLUMN description HEADING Description FORMAT A30 WORD_WRAPPED
COLUMN price HEADING Price FORMAT $99.99
SELECT product_id,name,description,price
FROM products;
CLEAR COLUMNS
TTITLE OFF
BTITLE OFF
And there´s no way to get in the output the TTITLE and the BTITLE, does anybody knows what´s wrong on it?
I already tryed comment the line TTITLE OFF AND BTITLE OFF.
Thank you very much.

If this is a regular report you run, you can create a user defined report. If you want to add formatting, then try the plsql-dbms_output report display style in the Reports tab.
e.g.
1. Create a new user defined report
2. set the display style to plsql-dbms_output
3. enter the report, e.g.
DECLARE
CURSOR jobs IS
SELECT last_name, job_id
FROM employees
WHERE manager_id > 120
ORDER BY job_id;
BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line ('<H1> The Main PL/SQL Report</H1>');
dbms_output.put_line ('<p> Designed to Illustrate a PL/SQL Report</p>');
dbms_output.put_line ('<H3> Ceated by Sue Harper</H3>');
dbms_output.put_line ('<H5> Create in November 2008</H5>');
dbms_output.put_line ('=============================');
FOR item IN jobs
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('<p> <b>Name</b> = '
|| item.last_name || '<b> Job</b> = ' || item.job_id || ' </p>');
END LOOP;
END;
I realize that this does not help any existing reports and scripts you have that contain SQl and SQL*Plus commands, but I give it by way of an alternative.
Sue

User Interface Template for Interactive Report Region

In 3.2, where do we set the user interface template for Interactive Reports region?
No matter what out of the box theme I switch to, the Interactive Reports region shows the same. What and where do I change the template so that alternating rows use two different colors?

There is no template for Interactive Reports like for a "normal" report. You need to modify the CSS and supply your own for this to happen.
I believe most things are tagged with #apexir - firebug with Firebox is invaluable. This thread may help:
Re: changing the look and feel of interactive report.

Can somebody give some real time questions for alv report

hi guru
can somebody give some real time questions for alv report.
answers also.
regards
subhasis.

hi,
The ALV is a set of function modules and classes and their methods which are added to program code. Developers can use the functionality of the ALV in creating new reports, saving time which might otherwise have been spent on report enhancement
The common features of report are column    alignment, sorting, filtering, subtotals, totals etc. <b>To implement these, a lot of coding and logic is to be put. To avoid that we can use a concept called ABAP List Viewer (ALV).</b>
Using ALV, we can have three types of reports:
   1. Simple Report
   2. Block Report
   3. Hierarchical Sequential Report
<b>Reward useful points</b>
Siva

No XML output for a report Oracle 11.5.10.2 RDBMS 10.2.0.5.0

I created a very simple rdf and ran it without problems.
I then generated an .xml file and loaded this into into the template builder using xml publisher.
I created the rtf and using xml Publisher administrator created a template and data definition for my report (TESTRDF)
"The xml page cannot be displayed
Cannot view xml input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
The following tags were not closed: TESTRDF5, LIST_G_VENDOR_NAME. Error processing resource 'http://cc002101.smart.star.net...
Here is an example of the xml
"- <LIST_G_VENDOR_NAME>
- <G_VENDOR_NAME>
<VENDOR_NAME>Vendor </VENDOR_NAME>
<INVOICE_NUM>141</INVOICE_NUM>
<AMOUNT_PAID>184</AMOUNT_PAID>
<INVOICE_AMOUNT>184</INVOICE_AMOUNT>
<VENDOR_NUMBER_>1</VENDOR_NUMBER_>
<VENDOR_ID>1</VENDOR_ID>
<INVOICE_ID>1</INVOICE_ID>
<WFAPPROVAL_STATUS>NOT REQUIRED</WFAPPROVAL_STATUS>
<INVOICE_DATE>20-DEC-07</INVOICE_DATE>
<DOC_SEQUENCE_VALUE>109624</DOC_SEQUENCE_VALUE>
<HR_DETAILS_>HR changed </HR_DETAILS_>
<ORGANISATION_ID_>102</ORGANISATION_ID_>
<APPROVAL_GROUP_ />
</G_VENDOR_NAME>
"

I would recommend checking the content of the file on the server. The problem with displaying an XML file through the browser is that it won't always display it properly, for example if there is a character id doesn't recognise.
Having opened up the original file, yuo should be able to see the issue more easily.

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