Re: Question about Building Reports

Regarding to bold, italic, etc., I remembered Oracle Reports has some package starts with SRW. I don't have the tool with me right now, but, thought that it was SRW.SET_ATTR, SRW.ATTR.MASK. You might want to look for the online help with these keywords. Hope this help.

M.

"Christine B. Vonk" <christine.vonk_at_nrl.navy.mil> wrote in message news:cbhgij$bci$1_at_ra.nrl.navy.mil...
> Hi -
> I'm an end user of an Oracle database containing publication
> information. I need to take the raw data and create a report using the
> standard bibliographic format, i.e.;
> Gao, Michael E., Peter L. Fromm, and Paul Guille. "Observations from
> Space"
> Astrophysical Journal, (48#1), pp. 432-444, 2 Feb 2004
>
> I would like to only bold certain people who fit a criteria, and I would
> like to italize the Journal name. I also need to insert the punctuation
> since the data is not stored with the quotes, periods or commas. The
> data is stored in two tables, one contains the authors names, the other
> contains everything else. They are linked through a unique number
> identifier.
>
> My DBA has tried to give me this information using Report Builder, but
> he is unable to bold, italize, and insert the punctuation. The report
> he gives me is also broken into chunks, and I have to use MS Word to
> piece it back together. It is very time consuming! I would think that
> Oracle has some tool available that can take data from the tables and
> print them with added punctuation, bolding, etc.
>
> Anyway help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
>
Received on Fri Jun 25 2004 - 18:38:54 CEST