Prithis Das - Oracle RXi Reports NCOAUGx

Everything you always wanted to know 

(but were afraid to ask) about 

Oracle RXi Reports 

Prithis Das 

NCOAUG 

February 2010

Agenda 

� What are RXi Reports 

� Benefits of RXi Reports 

� The Building Blocks of RXi Reports 

� Responsibility: Reports Exchange Designer 

� Seeded RXi Reports 

� Attribute Sets 

� Customizing Attribute Sets 

� Column Details 

� Summary Details 

� Securing RXi Reports 

� RXi Reports Printing 

� Limitations of RXi Reports 

� Q&A 2 

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What are RXi Reports? 

� RXi stands for Reports Exchange Designer 

� RXi Reports are a predefined list of reports that 

are available with certain modules 

� Examples of RXi Reports are the 

� Journals General (GL) 

� Payment Register (AP) 

� Transactions Register (AR) 

� Journal Entry Reserve Ledger Report (FA) 

� Currently, only AP, AR, FA, GL, Cross-Product 

and Globalization modules have RXi reports. 

� Most of the RXi reports fall under FA module. 

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Benefits of RXi Reports 

� Easy to use. It is mainly a case of knowing: 

� what reports are available 

� where to find them and 

� how to modify them 

� End Users can change the layout of a Rxi Report 

without programming 

� Flexibility to create multiple layouts 

� Control data items to be displayed on a report 

� Secure specific layouts to specific Responsibilities 

� Tailor reports for your own internal use 


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The Building Blocks of RXi Reports 

� Responsibility: Reports Exchange Designer 

� Seeded RXi Reports 

� Default Attribute Sets 

� Copy Feature for Attribute Set 

� Attribute Set Modification 

� Report Columns 

� Page Setup 

� Default Format 

� Column Format 

� Publishing Options 

� Security setup 


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Responsibility: Reports Exchange Designer 

� Assign the Report eXchange Designer 

responsibility to your User ID 


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Seeded RXi Reports 

� Examples: Transactions Register (AR), Journals - 

General (GL), Payment Register (AP) 

� Currently, only AP, AR, FA, GL, Cross-Product and 

Globalization modules have RXi reports. And most 

of them fall under FA module 


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Attribute Sets 

� The attribute set that you associate with an RXi 

report determines the layout and data content of 

the report 

� By default, each RXi report already has one or 

more attribute sets associated with it. 

�� You can use one of these attribute sets to print 

reports, but you cannot modify a default attribute 

set 

� Instead, you copy and rename an attribute set, 

then apply new layout definitions to the renamed 

attribute set 

� The attribute sets are linked to an RXi report in 

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the form of a runtime report parameter. 


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Attribute Sets (contd.) 

� From the Attribute Set window you can: 

� Copy and rename an attribute set, using the Copy 

Attribute Set dialog box 

� Define a new attribute set or modify an attribute set 

that you previously defined, using the Attribute Set 

window 

� Define column formatting, using the Column Details 

window 

� Define summary columns, using the Summary 

Details window 


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Attribute Sets (contd.) 

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Copy Feature for Attribute Sets 

� Use the Copy Attribute Set dialog box to copy and 

rename an attribute set 

� You can copy either a default attribute set 

included with an RXi report, or an attribute set 

that you previously defined for the report. 

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Customizing Attribute Sets 

� Customize the Attribute Set that you copied 

earlier 

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� Register Columns 

� List of all columns that are available for this report 

� Available Columns 

� The Available list box displays all columns that are 

available for this report but not currently included in 

the report output of this attribute set 

� Displayed Columns 

� The Displayed list box displays the report columns 

that are included in the report output of this 

attribute set. 

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� Register Columns 

� List of all columns that are available for this report 

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� Each column is an attribute in a given attribute 

set. 

� Most of the customization effort is focused on the 

column designing and formatting. 

� Column designing is modified in the Attribute Set 

window 

� Column formatting is modified in the Column 

Details window 

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Column Details Window 

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Column Details Window 

� You can optionally modify the column specific 

formatting attributes such as 

� Title 

� Length 

� Ordering 

�� Precision 

� date 

� number format masks 

� currency code 

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Summary Details Window 

� Use the Summary Details window to define 

columns as summary columns in a report. 

� A summary column is a column whose values are 

either summed or counted. 

� The report summary levels are: 

� Page Total Sum - The sum or count of records on 

the current page. 

� Running Page Total - The sum or count of records 

up to and including the current page. 

� Previous Page Total - The sum or count of records 

up to but not including the current page. 

� Report Total Sum - The sum or count of records in 

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Summary Details Window 

� Summary Detail button is enabled for amounts columns. 

� Count Detail button is enabled for all columns 

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Secure RXi Reports 

� Use the Report Security window (under Tools 

menu) to assign the customized attribute set to 

the desired Responsibilities. 

� The customized attribute set can be assigned to as 

many responsibilities as you want depending upon 

the requirement. 

� After a customized attribute set is deleted in the 

Attribute Set window, that set does not appear in 

the LOV during the report submission for any 

responsibilities. 

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Attribute Set: Page Setup 

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Attribute Set: Default Format 

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Secure RXi Reports 

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Assign the 

customized 

attribute set to 

the desired 

Responsibilities 

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RXi Reports Printing 

� There are two steps involved in generating an RXi 

report: 

� Run the RXi report to extract data to the temporary 

interface table. 

� Run the Publish RX Reports concurrent program to 

print the extracted data with the attribute set and 

output format that you want. 

� The RXi report and Publish RX Reports concurrent 

program can run together in one step, depending 

on the setup of RXi reports and concurrent 

program 

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RXi Reports Printing 

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RXi Reports Printing: Text output 

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RXi Reports Printing: HTML output 

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RXi Reports Printing: CSV output 

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RXi Reports Export to Excel 

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Limitations of RXi Reports 

� Cannot use Descriptive Flexfields 

� Page setup and print settings are often resolved 

through trial and error 

� Output types limited to Text, CSV, TAB delimited 

and HTML 

�� Cannot add columns to Register Columns list 

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Questions? 

Feedback? 

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Thank You 

dasp@tusc.com 

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