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Oracle APEX Best Practices

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Oracle APEX Best Practices

Overview of this book

Have you ever wanted to create real-world database applications? In this book you're not only getting APEX best practices, but will also take into account the total environment of an APEX application and benefit from it."Oracle APEX Best Practices" will guide you through the development of real-world applications. It will give you a broader view of APEX. The various aspects include setting up APEX environment, testing and debugging, security, and getting the best out of SQL and PL/SQL.In six distinct chapters you will learn about different features of Oracle APEX as well as SQL and PL/SQL.Do you maximize the capabilities of Oracle APEX? Do you use all the power that SQL and PL/SQL have to offer? Do you want to learn how to build a secure, fully functional application? Then this is the book you'll need. "Oracle APEX: Best Practices" is where practical development begins!
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Oracle APEX Best Practices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Printing

This chapter deals with different aspects of printing in Oracle Application Express. We will start with the two most used architectures in Application Express printing, Apache FOP and Business Intelligence Publisher. Then, we will see how to install and configure both Apache FOP and Business Intelligence Publisher. After the installation we will discuss how to investigate printing problems.

The main part of this chapter deals with layout of your report and describes how to include things such as charts and images.

Finally, we will look at some alternatives that can be used for PDF printing, plug-ins.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Different printing architectures such as Apache FOP and Business Intelligence Publisher

  • Installation and configuration of the Apache FOP report server and Business Intelligence Publisher

  • Debugging printing problems

  • Creating a simple report against the Business Intelligence Publisher

  • Creating a report that can output in different...