Need to share discoverer reports to set of oracle responsibilities

Hi All,
We have requirement to share some discoverer workbooks to new set of responsibilities. Is there any API to share some discoverer workbook or any other suggestions to accomplish this requirement.
Eg:
Discoverer Workbook
Oracle Responsibilities
Report1
Responsibility1
Report1
Responsibility2
Report2
Responsibility1
Report2
Responsibility3
Report3
Responsibility1
Thanks,
Ramesh

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Any ideas please share with me
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b) What is the difference between sum and cell sum? Well, I certainly won't claim to be a Discoverer guru. From what little I have seen, the practical result is not any difference really between the two. SUM of a calculated row is adding up the calculation to the total. Whereas cell sum is like adding up the individual values behind the calculation you see. The distinction makes more sense when you have SUM DISTINCT and CELL SUM DISTINCT being involved. Then you will see a difference in the calculated total. But for SUM and CELL SUM itself, I have not seen any difference between the two, but I am still pretty new to Discoverer.
e) Aggregate field from a folder. Well, this may be one where you have to play around with your own data to understand. Let me try to give you a simple example. Let's say you have a sales table with 100 rows. You have sales data for 5 cities, and each city has 20 rows of sales history. If you pick Sales Dollars Detail and City Name for your workbook and run, you will get 100 rows in your result (complete detail listing). So that is what happens with no aggregation. Now, instead of doing Sales Dollars Detail, you pick Sales Dollars Sum (the same thing as saying SUM(Sales Dollars) in an SQL statement). Run the workbook. You will now get 5 rows of data, instead of 100 rows of data. You will get one row for each city. If you look at the SQL that Discoverer generates, you will see that it has now done a GROUP BY in the SQL statement. Notice I have not said anything about DISTINCT (just trying to keep things simple).
Now, lets say you do a workbook for City, Part Number, and Sales Dollars Sum. Run the workbook. You get a summarized result (say maybe 10 rows of summary data this time). If you look at the Discoverer SQL, the GROUP BY is now by city and part number, automatically doing that because you picked the SUM version of sales dollars.
Now lets say you add Sales Units Detail to the workbook. Discoverer will give you a warning message that you are have both an aggregate and a non-aggregate and that you may end up with unpredictable results. Run the workbook. You will be back to 100 rows, because you specified sales units in detail.
Most of the time I do not want to see detail rows in a workbook. So most of the time I am picking the SUM aggregate for an amount item.
Hope this explains things a bit. Sounds like maybe you need to take the Discoverer Create Queries and Reports class. Would help you understand these things better. Good luck.
John Dickey

Discoverer Report Requirements

Hi
I am fairly new to Portal and currently looking at implementing it for a client using Portal v 10.1.4.1 and AS 11.5.10.2. Currently I am gathering requirements and one of these is to allow the users to display a number of Discoverer reports. At present the reports have not been defined and this is currently in progress. However from a Portal perspective can someone clarify please what components are needed both from Portal and also from Oracle AS in order to display these reports as well as any other comps. I have been reviewing the documentation and it seems to state that we need a Oracle BI component installed. Is this just for Dashboards or also for displaying reports in the Portlet ?
The documentation states that the Pre requisites for Discoverer Portlets are
1) Install Oracle Application Server Infrastructure
2) Install Oracle Application Server Portal
3) Install Oracle Business Intelligence
Can someone please confirm what I need to install in order to achieve this functionality ?
Thanks in advance
Kevin

Kevin,
If you have Portal installed and Discoverer Viewer then you can simply create a page in Portal with url items which contain links to the discoverer viewer reports. You need to create public connections within Discoverer. The easiest way of getting the correct url is to simply run the desired report within a browser and copy the url into the portal item.
If you need to set some of the parameters dynamically you can do this in a dynamic page and htp.p() the link as html, setting the desired parameters at runtime.
Portal allows you to create Discoverer portlets but these are pre-run and cached, which is great for performance but not so good if you need them to be dynamic.
You may need buiness intelligence if you are wanting to work with Oracle Applications: my understanding is that Business Intelligence is a pre-built End User Layer with Business Areas that get you up and running quickly with Discoverer in the eBusiness Suite. It is possible to do without Business Intelligence but it will require some up-front work to build your own end user layer and configure it.
There are a number of articles on Metalink about getting Discoverer to work with Oracle Applications which covers all this in great detail.
Patrick.

Scheduling Discoverer Report and distributing Discoverer Report Output

Hi,
We are using discoverer (Along with Oracle HCM R12) and would like the END USER to schedule the reports by themselves.
There is an option to schedule the report, and also an option to share it to chosen users/ responsibilities.
We scheduled one report and also set the sharing option to share with others but it seems the report executes but doesn't get sent out by email to the END USER's email id.
Any ideas / thought on this please?
NB: We are looking to distribute Discoverer Report Output from scheduled Discoverer reports...not looking to share the report with other users/ responsibilities.

Hi,
My bad, Sorry as I was speaking on EBS terms.
Anyways, please see if the following thread helps you:
https://forums.oracle.com/message/4485585#4485585
https://forums.oracle.com/message/2777847#2777847
Also see the forum search:
Forum Search: Share report
Thanks &
Best Regards

Need to share discoverer reports to set of oracle responsibilities

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