report exchange designer

Report Exchange Designer

Report eXchange Designer is one of the module of Oracle Applications Business Suite.It provides generally used Fixed Asset reports that you can modify according to your needs using some simple forms. These reports are run as a spawned process and not designed in oracle report builder. It is generally recommended to not to design new reports using RX but you can do so following some easy steps.

Steps of creating reports :

1. Creating View.2. Creating Report3. Creating Concurrent Program

1. Create a view with relevant data . This view should have its first column as REQUEST_ID.

2. Create RX Report :

Navigate to Report eXchange Designer responsibility ->

Open Setup RXi form ->

Select New Report from Tools Menu :

Enter the data as shown :

Application in which you will run the report

Responsibility from where you will run the report

Give any name to your report

View name you created for report

Select the column you want to dsiplay on report :

Grouping of the data :

For grouping first select the column and then press + button (Increase Level) at right side.

Grouping Style :

You can group left or group above your data. For that change tab to Page Setup.On this tab you can specify what information you want to display in your report heading.

Summary of data :

To get summarize data like (count or summation of particular columns) press column details button at bottom.

Note : All these setting will be stored in default attribute set of your report as you can see in the figure below. For your report there may be any number of attribute set with different name and with different settings(like grouping on different column, summary on different column, no of columns etc.). At the time of execution you will be asked to specify which attribute set report you want to run on parameter form.

To copy one attribute set press Copy Attribute Set Button at bottom :

After copying you can modify new attribute set (like grouping, summary etc.)

In above screen you are now grouping on Work Order Type instead of Asset Number and removed 2 columns from the same report i.e. when you run report selecting default attribute set these 2 columns will be shown on report but not with sandeep_set.

Save all your work . you are done with report creation.

Find report id for this report.Goto Help->Diagnistic->Examine

Select Reports Block and then find Report_Id field :

In above screen report id is 100183 . Note it down you will enter it in your concurrent program parameter.

3. Create a concurrent program .

Executable : FARXPBSH. You don’t need to create or change the executable always use FARXPBSH. Screen below is just for your reference

This executable publish seeded reports and reports developed by you.It is a spawned process which is C or Pro*C program. For all the reports use this executable.

Concurrent Program :

You can give program name same as your report name.

Program Parameters :

Create following 4 compulsory parameters and enter the data as shown in following screens :

Enter report id that we got at the time of report creation. --- 100183 in this case.

Confirm that display checkbox is unchecked for report_id parameter.

Here we specified DEFAULT as default value for Attribute Set.At run time you can choose any attribute set you defined for this report.

Here we specified TEXT as default value for Output format.At runtime you can choose other options i.e.

CSV – Comma Separated ValuesHTML – HTML formatTEXT – Text FormatTAB - Tab Delimited

You can specify more parameters with these compulsory parameters.Suppose you want to specify where clause for some column.

For ex : Asset Number should be in given range .

For this kind of parameter you need to specify relational operator with parameter name surrounded by “[“ & “]”.For Ex :[ASSET_NUMBER>=][ASSET_NUMBER<=][ASSET_NUMBER=][ASSET_NUMBER IS LIKE ]

Now you are done with program creation.

Assign this program to appropriate request group of your application .

Now navigate to correct responsibility (In our example DMC Enterprise Asset Management) and submit the request

Report Output :