Oracle 8.1.6.0.0 + discoverer

I have a server Oracle 8.1.6.0.0 with 5 databases.
Can I install Oracle discoverer to obtain reports from my databases?

Hi,
for reporting at the web, there is Oracle Discoverer 4i availible. You can do many things with this tool over the web.
Actual i'm working on a project with Discoverer 3.1, it works also fine with 8.1.6.x.
Try it!

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When I am creating an EUL, I select 'New EUL for Oracle Applications users only' option, but, I do not have any 'FND schema' to specify. That's where I'm stuck up!
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You can do the same thing using a PUBLIC EUL, except you need to reduce what that user can do (Tools | Privileges) to an absolute minimum, and then take control of this using roles. For example, you could have a set of functional roles, one each for say AP, AR, GL and so on, but you could further break this down by privilege, thus you could have roles called AP Viewer, AP User, AR Viewer, AR User and so on. The User roles would have full access while the Viewer roles would have a much reduced set of privileges.
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Kevin
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Can anybody explain me the significance of selecting oracle applications responsibility while logging into Discoverer Plus?
RM

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