Oracle9i Discoverer for Administrators

This 1-day course will teach students the purpose and capabilities of the Discoverer 9i Administrator tool. This class teaches students how to use the Discoverer Administrator tool. This tool allows users to create an End User Layer, which serves as a metalayer between the data source and Discoverer. Students will also learn how to create and manage business areas, which will hide the complexity of the data source and provide a user-friendly view of the data for end users.

Target audience

This course has been developed for Oracle developers and database administrators. Students should have attended the following course or have equivalent knowledge and experience:

• Oracle9i SQL Introduction
• Oracle9i Discoverer for Desktop Users

Course content

Creating and managing business areas Discoverer components • Installing the EUL • Starting Oracle 9i Discoverer administrator • Using the create EUL wizard • Deleting an end user layer • Creating a business area using the load wizard • The work area • Managing business areas • Opening a business area • Closing business areas • Adding business areas • Deleting business areas • Business area properties • Online help

Working with folders and joins Working with folders • Adding folders with the load wizard • Managing folders • Deleting folders • Creating custom folders • Adding an empty complex folder • Creating complex folders • Working with joins • Creating joins • Editing joins • Deleting joins • Join properties • Sorting folders

Working with items and item classes Working with items • Creating calculated items • Editing items • Deleting items • Sorting items • Registering PL/SQL functions • Item classes • Creating item classes with the item class wizard • The item classes tab • The effect of the item class • Editing item classes • Item class properties

Working with conditions and hierarchies Working with conditions • Creating conditions • Editing conditions • Deleting conditions • Condition properties • Working with hierarchies • Creating item hierarchies with the hierarchy wizard • Creating date hierarchies with the hierarchy wizard • The hierarchies tab • The effect of the date hierarchy • Editing hierarchies • Deleting hierarchies • Hierarchy properties

Security, privileges and summaries Business area security • User privileges • Summaries and materialized views • Creating and maintaining summaries • Registering an external summary table • The summaries tab • Editing and refreshing summaries • Deleting summaries • Summary properties • What is automated summary management • Accessing the underlying materialized view

Business area maintenance Exporting, importing • Manage scheduled workbooks • Refreshing a business area • Setting the default EUL • Command line options

Using EUL status workbooks

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