Report Generation — Defining Joining and Grouping Data Using the Relationship Manager

The relationship manager in XML Publisher provides a powerful and easy way to group and join data from one or more data sources, an essential feature for advanced report generation applications.

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This report generation tutorial Covers the following topics:

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Creating a new XML Report in Stylus Studio
Visually developing a report generation application using the XML publisher
Specifying one or more data sources for use in the report generation application
Examining the structure of the data source(s) in the data source explorer window
Specifying related data fields, for example, primary and foreign keys
Browsing joined or grouped data in the data source explorer window
Formatting the output of a report generation application
Testing and previewing your report
Generating an XSLT stylesheet to create an HTML+CSS report

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