Oracle Applications allows you to view your log and report output files online with the Report File Viewer. The viewer provides navigational buttons that enable you to go directly to the first or last page of your report, or to move to the next or previous page. In addition, you can use Go To Page button to specify the page of the report you want to view. You can activate the viewer from the Requests window.

Note: Some reports have special formatting characters that printers use to print special effects, such as boldfacing or underlining. If your computer does not support such special characters, you may see these characters when you view your report online. However, the report still prints correctly without displaying these characters.

   To View Request Output:

Choose View Output

   To view requests log files:

Choose View Log to display the request's error log file. If your request ends in error, you can view a log of the error messages. The log also contains information about the print options used and a listing of child request IDs, if the original request is a parent request.

   To save Request Output:

Choosing Copy File... from the Tools menu displays the Viewer Option window which presents a poplist of output file formats for you to select from. Selecting one opens your browser window. From the browser window, you can use the native browser tools to save your request output to a file.

Note: When you save the file, give the file an appropriate name and the correct extension. You must provide the correct extension to save and view the file properly.

Viewing Reports in HTML

Reports that produce an output other than a text file (for example HTML or PDF) are displayed in a browser. If you set the profile option VIEWER: TEXT to Browser, your text files are also displayed in a browser as opposed to the Report Viewer. VIEWER: TEXT may also be set to display your output in a text editor such as Microsoft Word, or in a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel.

You can use the Save As functionality of your browser to save an HTML report to your desktop. If your system supports multiple languages, you may have trouble with the saved output. Ask your system administrator for assistance with character set conversion from the server to your browser.

The name of the output/report file passed to the browser is created dynamically. The concurrent program name and the date on which the request was run are used to create the name of the file. The file extension is based on the Output Type" attribute of the concurrent program.

For example:

Request 1234 for the "Year End Exception Report" is run on September 27, 2001 and has an output file named o1234.out.

When you view this report online, 'Year End Exception Report_270901.html' is passed as the name of the file to the browser in the content header in addition to the mime-type. You can then save the file locally using this name.