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Advanced Reporting and Charting with

Oracle Application Express 4.0
Marc Sewtz | Software Development Manager | Oracle Application Express
Oracle USA Inc.
520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022
marc.sewtz@oracle.com
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Agenda

• Oracle APEX 4.0 - Overview

• Interactive Report Enhancements
• Updated Flash Charts
• Report Printing
• Demonstration
Oracle APEX 4.0

Overview
Oracle Application Express Overview

• Unique Rapid Application Development

(RAD) tool for the Oracle Database
• Browser based for Development, Deployment
and Use
• Allows to declaratively build professional
Web 2.0 applications that are fast and secure
• Leverages full Oracle database capabilities
and existing SQL & PL/SQL skills
• Standard component of the database
• Fully supported, “no-cost” option with all
editions of the Oracle Database

Easy to develop • Easy to deploy • Easy to manage

 Oracle APEX – Typical Use Cases

Data-driven Applications Oracle Forms

Develop opportunistic and departmental Modernization
productivity applications Leverage SQL & PL/SQL declarative
programming skills to move Forms
applications to HTML / Web 2.0

Online Reporting
Build SQL-based reporting
applications on existing
database schemas

Spreadsheet Web-ification Access Replacement

Consolidate outgrown Access applications
Convert spreadsheets to Web applications
to the Oracle database with an APEX Web
where they can be concurrently viewed and
front end
edited
Oracle APEX - Architecture
Oracle APEX – Multi-Tenancy
 Oracle APEX – Deployment Options

Multi-tenant and browser-based

architecture allows for
Hosted Service
deployment anywhere (dedicated or multi-tenant)

Corporate IT / Enterprise Service

(dedicated or multi-tenant)

Departmental Server

Local Database
(Oracle XE)
Oracle APEX – Development Features

Reports Validations Translation

Services

Forms Processes Conditional

Processing

Charts Computations Authentication

Calendar Branches Authorization

Templates Web Services Session State

Management

Navigation Email Services Logging &

Monitoring
Interactive Report
Enhancements
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Interactive Reports

• Out-of-the-box declarative Web 2.0 reporting

Oracle APEX 4.0 – Interactive Reports

• Search Bar
• Quick Text-Search on all or select columns
• Actions Menu Button
• Actions Menu
• Formatting
• Number of Rows
• Charting
• Saving & Sharing
• Exporting
• Column Sorting and Filtering
• Column-Header menu for easy Sorting, Filtering and Break-Formatting
• More granular control via Actions Menu
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Interactive Reports

• Control Break, Highlighting, Compute Columns and Aggregate

• Saving and sharing of customized reports
• Saving Interactive Report customizations for future use
• Sharing with other users by saving reports as public
• Selection via Saved-Reports select list in Actions Menu
• Logging of Search Criteria
• Notification
• Scheduled notification
• Email send to user including static HTML version of report data
• Report, Detail and Icon View
• Single-Row View
• Charts
D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Oracle APEX 4.0

Interactive Reports
Updated Flash Charts
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts

• Updated Charting Engine using AnyChart 5

• New Flash Chart Regions
• Updated Interactive Reports, replacing AnyChart 4 with AnyChart 5
• AnyChart 3 and SVG based chart region types deprecated
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts

• Column - , Horizontal Bar - , Pie - &

Doughnut Charts
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts
• Scatter -, Candlestick and Line Charts
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts

• Gauges, Gantt Charts & Maps

 Oracle APEX 4.0 –Interactive Reports Charts
• Interactive Reports – built-in Flash Charts
• Updated to AnyChart 5
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts

• New Create Page and Create Region Wizard for charts

• Gallery of charts types
• Additional chart attributes, minimizing need for XML customization
• Declarative action link attribute
• Combined Charts
• Available Multi-Series Bar and Column Charts
• Add additional series using Bar -, Line - or Marker Charts
• Gantt charts included in the Chart wizard
• Project and resource chart
• Specific Gantt Chart attributes
• “Migrate to New Flash Chart”
• Migrate option for SVG and AnyChart 3 based charts
Oracle APEX 4.0 – Updated Flash Charts

• New Create Page and Create Region Wizard for Maps

• Oracle APEX 4.0 includes AnyChart map charts
• Over 300 different maps
• Tree view for easy selection of the desired map
• Support for multiple chart series queries
D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Updated Flash
Charts
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Report Printing
Oracle APEX with Oracle BI Publisher

• BI Publisher 10.1.3.2.1 or above

• APEX calls “convert” Servlet through utl_http
• Supports XSL-FO and RTF based templates
• Template design using MS Word Plug-In
• Output to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML and XML
Oracle APEX with Apache FOP

• Full Oracle Support using Oracle Containers

for J2EE (10.1.3.2) or above
• APEX calls apex_fop.jsp through utl_http
• Supports XSL-FO based templates
• Template design using third party tools
• Output to PDF and XML *)
*) other output formats supported using custom FOP code
Oracle APEX Report Printing

• Report Queries
• Report generation based on one or more query result sets
• WYSIWIG report design using Template Builder for MS Word
• Inclusion of data driven charts and images
• Referencing application session data
• Interactive Reports
• Export of interactive report data to
PDF, Word, Excel, HTML and XML
• Classic Reports
• Easy report printing using customizable
generic report layouts
• Full support for custom RTF layouts
Oracle APEX Report Customization

• Report Design with the BI Publisher Template Builder

• Export report data as XML data file or XML schema definition
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<EMPNO>100</EMPNO>
<ENAME>Jo Bloggs</ENAME>
<JOB>CLERK</JOB>
<SAL>100</SAL>
<DNAME>ACCOUNTING</DNAME>
</ROW>
<ROW num="2">
<EMPNO>100</EMPNO>
<ENAME>Jane Doe</ENAME>
<JOB>CLERK</JOB>
<SAL>100</SAL>
</ROW>
...
</ROWSET>
Oracle APEX Report Customization

• Report Design Template Builder Menu

• Load XML file into the BI Publisher Template Builder

• Insert report objects as
fields, table or charts
using wizards
• Save layout as RTF file
• Deploy to APEX and
associate with report query
or report region

Insert Table/Form dialog

Inserted table structure

Oracle APEX Report Customization

• Creating a PDF Report with Multiple Queries and Charts

• Create report query in APEX
containing multiple result sets
• Design RTF Template combining
one or more reports and charts
D E M O N S T R A T I O N

High-Fidelity Report
Printing
Information:
http://otn.oracle.com/apex

Hosted Development:
http://apex.oracle.com
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