Printing PDF reports in application express

Hi everyone,
I am a newbie to APEX.can anyone post some links or material regarding the PDF reports in APEX.
Thank u

This is where I started. I then read up on the information on BI Publisher at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/enterprise-edition.html .
Between the 2 sites, I think you will have everything you need.

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Hello.
I have several tables with the sql bellow:You are digging yourself a DEEP hole by using double quote marks & Mixed Case table & column names!
>
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>
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CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "Appointment_REPORT" ("DOCTOR", "PATIENT", "Content", "Date") AS
select concat(concat(v.name,' '),v.surname) as doctor, concat(concat(pa.name_patient,' '),pa.surname_patient) as pactent, p.content, p.date
from Appointment p, Amployee v, Patient pa
where
v.employee_id=p.employee_id
and p.patient_id=pa.patient_id
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I understand how to make a form on the Appointment table but given how that table contains lots of primary keys (numbers) it's not preferable for the user to have to deal with that.
Any table can have only ONE Primary Key.
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making it functional?Since you have told us what functionality is desired or expected,
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