Oracle Designer Tutorial


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Before you start reading this document, it is important that you understand the following:

Purpose of this document

This document is a tutorial for Oracle Designer. It aims to:

Upon completion of this tutorial, you will know how to:

This tutorial does not attempt to describe in detail the functionality of every Oracle Designer product component. Instead, the tutorial concentrates on how to use the components together to progress from a high level business model to a working generated application. For comprehensive information, refer to the Oracle Designer help system.

Note that to enable you to use several different Oracle Designer product components within a relatively short period, the tutorial assumes a very small business scenario. This scenario is not representative of the more sophisticated environments in which Oracle Designer is typically used.

Intended audience for this document

This tutorial is intended for analysts and designers who want to know how to use the Oracle Designer tools and utilities to model, design and implement business systems.

This tutorial does not explain in detail terms that are familiar to such an audience (for example, entity relationship diagrams, function hierarchy diagrams and SQL DDL commands).

Prerequisites for using this document

This tutorial does not assume you have any prior experience with Oracle Designer. However, this tutorial does assume that:

For more information about importing the TUTORIAL application system, refer to Appendix A "Tutorial Installation Notes".

Notes:

1. If you are going to follow lessons 7 through 9, the lessons about creating, refining and generating forms, you will need to have Oracle Developer (Forms) installed.

2. If you are going to follow lesson 10, "Generate a Web Application", you will need to have Web PL/SQL Generator installed. You will also need to know additional connection details, as set out at the beginning of the lesson. Your System Administrator will be able to set up Web PL/SQL Generator and tell you the necessary connection details.

Structure of this document

The tutorial is organized into the following parts:

Part I "Before You Start", introduces Oracle Designer and prepares you for the tutorial.

Part II "Tutorial", comprises 11 lessons, each made up of one or more tasks.

How to use this document

If you are not familiar with the Oracle Designer toolset and how the tools relate to one another, refer to Part I, "Before You Start". Each lesson in Part II begins with a brief discussion of the concepts behind the tasks in the lesson. If you are already familiar with these concepts, go straight to the first task in the lesson. The concepts are covered in more detail in the Oracle Designer help system.

Conventions used in this document

Menu selections are shown with an arrow separating the name of the menu and the name of the option. For example, to show a selection of the New option from the File Menu, the following appears in the text:

Select Filearrow.gif (182 bytes)New

Characters you type are shown in monotype. For example:

Type Order Request

The screenshots in this document are of Oracle Designer Release 6i running in a Windows NT environment.

Your comments are welcome

We appreciate your comments as an Oracle user and a reader of the documentation. If you would like to contact us with any comments that you may have about this (or other) Oracle documentation, please use the following address or telephone us on 01189 245019 (for Oracle users overseas: + 44 1189 245019).

Oracle Designer User Documentation,
Oracle Corporation UK Ltd,
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