Preface

Welcome to the Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Publishing Workbooks in Oracle Application Server Portal.

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Keyboard Navigation

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer supports standard keyboard navigation. Standard keyboard navigation includes the use of the tab key, mnemonics (using the Alt key and the underlined character), and accelerators (such as Alt+F4 to exit a window).

Intended Audience

Use this guide if you want to publish Discoverer content to OracleAS Portal pages, and you want to know how to:

register Discoverer Portlet Provider with OracleAS Portal
publish Discoverer portlets in OracleAS Portal pages
edit Discoverer portlets in OracleAS Portal pages

Structure

This manual contains the following parts:

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

Convention	Meaning
File \| New	Menu options are shown with a vertical bar separating the menu and the name of the option. For example, File \| New shows the selection of the New option from the File menu.
bold type	Bold type is used to distinguish field names in Discoverer dialogs.
italic type	Italic type is used for the names of other Oracle publications.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
`monotype`	Characters you type are shown in monotype.

Discoverer often gives you several ways to perform an operation. For example, to create a new condition you could:

choose Tools | Conditions
click the Conditions toolbar button

Since you might not be using a mouse, the Discoverer documentation always tells you the menu and menu option to choose.

JGoodies License Agreement

Oracle Business Intelligence includes the JGoodies software, whose License Agreement follows:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of JGoodies nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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