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

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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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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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Customizing Attribute Sets

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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Customizing Attribute Sets

Register Columns

List of all columns that are available for this report

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Customizing Attribute Sets

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

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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