Oracle Discoverer for Administrators
 
 

Oracle Discoverer for Administrators

Course Code: ODM

Duration: 3 days

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Oracle Discoverer for Administrators Course Overview

The Oracle Discoverer Administration training course is designed for delegates intending to set up and administer Business Areas within a Discoverer End User Layer (EUL). Understanding and efficiently utilizing the features of the Discoverer Administration tool is critical to the provision of pertinent data to End Users of Discoverer Plus or Discoverer Desktop.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

  • Creating and Maintaining the Oracle Discoverer EUL
  • Creating, Managing and Developing Oracle Discoverer Business Areas
  • Managing Simple, Complex and Custom Folders
  • Creating and Using Joins
  • Creating and Using Calculations
  • Using Custom Oracle PL/SQL Functions
  • Working with Conditions
  • Creating Date and Item Hierarchies
  • Using Summary Folders
  • Using the Automated Summary Management Feature (ASM)
  • Using the Oracle Discoverer EUL Status Workbooks
  • Using the Oracle Enterprise Manager Website to Configure Oracle Discoverer Plus and Viewer
  • Creating Connections to Oracle Discoverer Plus
  • Creating HTML links to Discoverer Viewer worksheets using Private Connections

Who will the Course Benefit?

Anyone who wishes to set up or maintain relevant Business Areas within an Oracle Discoverer End User Layer.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to manage Business Areas effectively within an Oracle Discoverer End User Layer and to learn how to use the Oracle Enterprise Manager website to configure Oracle Application Server for Discoverer Plus and Viewer.

Requirements

Attendance on the pre-requisite courses or similar knowledge. Practical experience of Oracle Application Server Administration would be an advantage.

Pre-Requisite Courses

Follow-On Courses

Notes:
  • Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
  • Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.


 

Course Contents

Oracle Discoverer for Administrators Training Course

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: WHAT IS ORACLE DISCOVERER?

  • Overview
  • Discoverer Components
  • The Discoverer Administration Interface
  • The Data Page
  • The Hierarchies Page
  • The Item Classes Page
  • The Summaries Page
  • The Discoverer Workbook Window

Session 2: DATABASE REQUIREMENTS FOR USING DISCOVERER

  • Introduction
  • Preparing for the use of Scheduled Workbooks
  • Requirements for Summary Management
  • Query Prediction

Session 3: THE END USER LAYER

  • Introduction - the Purpose of the End User Layer
  • Creating an EUL
  • Managing the EUL
  • Deleting an EUL

Session 4: BUSINESS AREA MANAGEMENT

  • Introduction - Business Areas and their Use
  • Building a New Business Area
  • Building a New Business Area with the Load Wizard
  • Applying security and privileges to a Business Area
  • Scheduling workbooks

Session 5: FOLDER MANAGEMENT

  • Introduction - the Types of Folder
  • Creating a Simple Folder
  • Creating a Complex Folder
  • Creating a Custom Folder
  • Folder Properties
  • Editing the SQL of a Custom Folder
  • Sharing Folders across Business Areas
  • Folder Operations
  • Importing and Exporting using Discoverer Administrator

Oracle Discoverer for Administrators Training Course

Session 6: MANAGING ITEMS AND ITEM CLASSES

  • Introduction - Items, Item Classes and their Use
  • Item Properties
  • Deleting an Item
  • Creating and Editing Item Classes
  • Using the Item Class Page to Manage Item Classes

Session 7: JOINS, CALCULATIONS, CONDITIONS AND HIERARCHIES

  • Introduction - the Use and Purpose of these Objects
  • Joins
  • Calculations
  • Conditions
  • Hierarchies

Session 8: SUMMARY FOLDERS

  • Introduction - the Purpose of Summary Folders
  • What is a summary Folder?
  • Creating a Summary Folder
  • Editing and Repairing Summary folders
  • Summary Folder Properties
  • Automated Summary Management

Session 9: EUL STATUS WORKBOOKS

  • Introduction - What are EUL Status Workbooks?
  • Installing the EUL v5 Business Area
  • Workbook Content

Oracle Discoverer for Administrators Training Course

Session 10: INTRODUCTION TO APPLICATION SERVER

  • Introduction to the Application Server
  • A Simple Application Server Environment to Support Discoverer
  • Oracle Application Server Installation Types
  • Managing an Application Server
  • The Enterprise Manager Website
  • The Application Server Farm Home Page
  • The Application Server Instance Home Page
  • The Components' Home Pages
  • Starting and Stopping Components and their Effects
  • Clues to Potential Web Problems

Session 11: DISCOVERER ARCHITECTURE

  • Introduction - Discoverer Architecture on the Web
  • The Discoverer Services
  • Accessing Discoverer Plus
  • Accessing Discoverer Viewer

Session 12: CONFIGURING DISCOVERER FOR THE WEB

  • Introduction - the Discoverer Configuration Page
  • Issues Concerning Running Discoverer Plus for the First Time
  • Managing Discoverer Services
  • Shutting Down the Discoverer System
  • Using Discoverer in a Multi-Machine Environment
  • Creating Public and Private Discoverer Connections
  • Discoverer and Oracle Single Sign-On
  • Configuring Single Sign-On to Protect Discoverer
  • Connecting to Discoverer with Single Sign-On

Session 13: INFLUENCING DISCOVERER BEHAVIOUR

  • Introduction - Discoverer Preferences and Oracle Web Cache
  • Maintaining Oracle Discoverer Preferences
  • Using Parameters in the Oracle Discoverer URLs
  • Oracle Discoverer and the Oracle Web Cache
  • Configuring Oracle Discoverer to use the Web Cache
 

Oracle Discoverer for Administrators

Duration: 3 days

RRP: £1,485.00 exc. VAT 


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