Report Builder Question - OA AR Aging - and a general question

Question

I'm sure this is the wrong forum for this question, but I thought there might be someone here who might be using Oracle Applications and Report Builder who'd be kind enough to help me out.
We've recently implemented Oracle Applications 11.5.10 and I have to use report builder to change the Accounts Receiveable Aging (7 bucket) to a 5 bucket report. I've already made some changes to the seeded "ARXAGMW.rdf" report, but I'm not a big Oracle Reports guy. I've stumbled through making some changes in various other reports. But this one is just plain nasty! :)
I was thinking that I could simply add buckets 6 & 7 to bucket 5, then just hide or delete the 6 & 7 buckets. But I'm not sure where to even start. Any help with this would GUARANTEE a Christmas or other holiday card this year! :)
I really want to keep this simple as possible, so any help would be very....helpful. :)
Oh, my general question is: Are there any resouces/books for Oracle Reports (Report Builder)? I feel so lost trying to modify existing reports, let alone creating new ones.
Thanks again!
Steve

Answer 1

Hi Steve,
I am working on the 7-bucket aging report and i want to add a new field in data model.
As the query is build dynamically, i have modified the function BUILD_CUSTOMER_SELECT to meet my requirements.
But the problem is that in the data model, the field is not present in my Grouping. and if I try to add the field in the Data Model query (Q_ Customer) section,
i get the following error: ORA-01789: query block has incorrect number of result columns.
The query is as shown below:
select rpad('a',50,'-') short_cust_name,
0 cust_id,
rpad('a',30,'-') cust_no,
rpad('a',500,'-') sort_field1,
rpad('a',40,'-') sort_field2,
0 payment_sched_id,
rpad('a',32,'-') class,
sysdate due_date,
0 amt_due_remaining,
0 days_past_due ,
0 amount_adjusted,
0 amount_applied,
0 amount_credited,
sysdate gl_date,
'x' data_converted,
0 ps_exchange_rate,
0 b0,
0 b1,
0 b2,
0 b3,
0 b4,
0 b5,
0 b6,
rpad('a',25,'-') bal_segment_value,
rpad('a',500,'-') inv_tid,
rpad('a',32,'-') invoice_type
, 'y' parent_cust --I WANT A NEW FIELD HERE TO BE VIEWED ON THE REPORT LAYOUT LATER
from dual
where 1=2
UNION ALL
&common_query_cus
Did i missed somthing 4 me to be able to add the field here?