While running XML Publisher report for EXCEL output, the Concurrent Program has the error message :

“ORA-1403: no data found”

The cause of this problem has been identified in Bug 4396843 by Metalink.

The output of the report can be viewed from menu Request > Monitor through System Administration Responsibility or you can solve this problem by 2 way :

1. Change the length of oftype variable from varchar2(4) to varchar2(5) in editor_pkg2.browser_show() of FNDCONC.PLL. Because output type “EXCEL” can’t be strored in that variable as it exceeds the size of the variable. After that, compile PLL with this syntax: “f60gen module=FNDCONC.pll userid=apps/apps module_type=library batch=yes output_file=FNDCONC.plx compile_all=special“
2. Apply patch 4396842 or later

When viewing report output (View -> Requests menu, Find button, place your cursor on the row of the report that you want to view, View Output button) using the standard Oracle Report Viewer, select Tools -> Copy File menu to open the report in a web browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer).
a.) If a browser automatically opened when you clicked on the View Output button from within the Requests form, you don’t need to access the Tools -> Copy File menu.
b.) On a recurring basis, if you would rather view requests using a browser, rather than the standard Oracle Report Viewer, set the profile option “Viewer: Text” (rel 12, 11i & 11) or “Editor: Character” (rel 10.7) to “Browser” at the user level.

We can create a header and a footer to display customized titles at the top and bottom of each page in the report output using the TTITLE and BTITLE commands.

Query for display the employees who work in SALES department and hire date year is 1981.

After type the command to display the title 1981 Employees at the top and Sales Department at the bottom of each page.

In Oracle, we can customize the column heading and formatted it’s value.

Controls display of a column:

COL[UMN] [ { column|alias } [option] ]

• CLE[AR] : Clears any column formats
• HEA[DING] text : Sets the column heading
• FOR[MAT] format : Changes the display of the column using a format model
• NOPRINT | PRINT
• NULL

• Create Column Headings

COLUMN ename HEADING ‘Employee Name’
COLUMN sal JUSTIFY LEFT FORMAT $99,990.00
COLUMN mgr FORMAT 999999 NULL ‘No Manager’

•  Display the current setting for the ename column

COLUMN ename

• Clear settings for the ename column

COLUMN ename CLEAR

Example:
Customized the SAL column heading and formatted salary values using a COLUMN command option.