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Publishing a Report in OracleAS Portal
13.4 Publishing a Report in OracleAS Portal
One of the best ways to publish your report is through the declarative, secure interface
of OracleAS Portal.
See Also:
Registering a Reports Server
Registering a Report
Registering a Printer
Creating an Availability Calendar
For more information on registering required components with
OracleAS Portal before proceeding.
Note: When you use features like OracleAS Portal Security, Portal
Destination, and Job Status Repository, the JDBC database
connections made by OracleAS Reports Services may override the
initial NLS_LANG setting. This change may in turn affect the
behavior of the running report, such as bidirectional output in PDF.
On UNIX platforms, you can work around this issue by setting the
NLS_LANG explicitly in report.sh. You can also use the new
environment switching functionality to dynamically set the
environment for reports. Refer to Dynamic Environment Switching,
for more information.
To a expose a report in a portal, you must do the following:
1. Create a provider for your reports. This step defines a provider to contain the
reports you wish to make available to users in the portal.
2. Create the report definition file access. This step makes the report available as a
portlet to page designers within the portal by defining the reports properties, in
particular the provider that contains it.
3. Add the report as an item link 1 or as a portlet 2 to a page and optionally customize
it. This step makes the report available to users on a page and enables the page
designer to set the report parameters and schedule it to run automatically.
13.4.1 Creating a Provider for Your Reports
If you do not already have a provider defined to contain your reports, you need to
create one. For more information on creating a provider, see the OracleAS Portal online
help.
Note: The provider that contains your reports must be a database
provider and must have the Expose as Provider setting selected on
its Access page.
1 An individual piece of content (text, hyperlink, image, etc.) that resides on a page in an item
region.
2 A reusable, pluggable Web component that typically displays portions of Web content.
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