Oracle BI Publisher Consulting

BI Publisher 11G Upgrade Part 2 ! – Things to Know

2011-07-27T09:48:00.001-07:00

I just talked about the 11G Upgrade the other day, but looks there are some confusions around this topic, so here I am, trying to clear them up today. Data Set with No Columns! When your report’s data model is using SQL Query or BI Answers as the data source type then after the upgrade you would notice that your data sets don’t have any column in the Data Model Editor. So it would like this.

10G Users! Let’s Upgrade to BI Publisher 11G!

2011-07-27T09:41:00.001-07:00

10G users! Have you had a chance to try out 11G yet ? Are you planning to upgrade to 11G soon ? BI Publisher 11G release is a huge milestone for us. We have changed the way the traditional reports development have been with this release completely. With 11G, you can start developing your reports quickly and easily with the new web UI tools such as Data Model Editor and Layout Editor, and view

Start BI Publisher Enterprise Server for your E-Business Suite Data!

2011-07-07T17:26:00.001-07:00

BI Publisher has always supported the EBS (Oracle E-Business Suite) security as one of the security model options. However, when it comes to the EBS data level security there was no straight forward way to support it before. And this has prevented many folks from moving to BI Publisher Enterprise Server for the EBS reporting even when we know that BI Publisher Enterprise Server would

Chart with BI Publisher 11g Layout Editor

2011-07-05T14:09:00.001-07:00

Chart is one of the best and most effective ways to provide your audience a great insight about the data. Creating charts with BI Publisher 11g Layout Editor has made the chart creation so much easy and simple. Just for that reason, I personally use BI Publisher Layout Editor to visualize my data in spreadsheets. All I need is a standard web browser and a mouse (or touch pad with my macbook pro

Upgrade Existing BI Publisher 11g to 11.1.1.5

2011-06-17T09:28:00.003-07:00

It’s already more than a month now since BI Publisher 11.1.1.5 was released at beginning of May. Have you already tried out many of the great new features? If you are already running on the first version of BI Publisher 11g (11.1.1.3) you might wonder how to upgrade the existing BI Publisher to the 11.1.1.5 version. There are two ways to do this, one is ‘Out-Place’ and another is ‘In-Place’. The

11.1.1.5 New Feature – More Data to Audit and Monitor

2011-05-19T11:21:00.001-07:00

We believe Auditing and Monitoring capability for Reporting is crucial for the IT management and governance regardless if it’s enterprise level or department level deployment. So we are always committed to improve our BI Publisher Auditing and Monitoring capability since we introduced it for the first time With the first release of 11g (11.1.1.3) we added this Auditing and Monitoring

11.1.1.5 New Feature – More Data to Audit and Monitor

2011-05-19T09:04:00.001-07:00

BI Publisher 11g - 11.1.1.5 is here!

2011-05-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

New Oracle BI Publisher 11g Release 11.1.1.5 is released! Here is a list of the new features. Much Faster Interactive Reporting Experience Using BI Publisher to interact with your data is snappy. Generating interactive report output uses less memory and is faster than ever. BI Publisher’s highly optimized, three layer caching mechanism provides a highly responsive, interactive reporting

Share and Deliver BI Publisher Reports in Multiple Languages

2011-03-12T14:34:00.001-08:00

When you share your reports with someone who speak and read in different languages you want your reports to be shown in their language, right ? Well, translating reports with BI Publisher is not only easy but also reduces the maintenance cost a lot. Many of us in the BI Publisher product development team used to work in Globalization and Multi Lingual support, which enables Oracle products and

Oracle BI Publisher 11G Installation

2010-09-02T05:09:00.001-07:00

Have you already installed BI Publisher 11G and started playing around ? Well, as much as I was excited about the release news when I came back from my big vacation, I had a bit of bumps on the road of installing until logging into the initial home page. First, I couldn’t proceed on the installer wizard steps more than step 4, then after having fixed the problem I still couldn’t start some BI

Here Comes BI Publisher 11G!

2010-09-01T05:12:00.001-07:00

It’s been long since the last post. I’ve been on vacation plus leave of absence and traveling around northern Europe with my bike ‘Surley’. It was the best trip in my life and maybe the best thing I’ve ever done. But now back to work, another thing I love! Well, first thing I found when I came back is the news of BI EE 11G being released finally! This is the long waited and much needed release

Date Formatting and Handling for Siebel Reporting

2010-05-07T09:37:00.001-07:00

I have discussed about the Siebel Date related issue before at one of the posts. The issue is that the IO returns the date data in a different format from the one BI Publisher expects (Canonical format), which prevents BI Publisher from formatting the date or handling the date data with its functions. There are some workarounds available I discussed about at the post. But not anymore! Siebel

How to Schedule a Report with BI Publisher Web Service?

2010-04-20T12:56:00.001-07:00

This is part of the BI Publisher Web Service series. I have already covered ‘How to use BI Publisher Web Service with JDeveloper 11G’ and ‘How to Run a Report with BI Publisher Web Service’. If you haven’t checked the posts and are interested in please click the above links to check. Today, I’m going to talk about how to schedule a BI Publisher report with the Web Service within a Java

How to Run a Report with BI Publisher Web Service?

2010-04-19T11:11:00.001-07:00

This is a follow up post from the last post ‘How to use BI Publisher Web Service with JDeveloper 11G’. Today, I want to talk about how to run a BI Publisher report with the Web Service within a Java Servlet. This post is assuming that you have already generated Java Web Service Proxy with JDeveloper, which creates a set of Java classes/methods that are required to call BI Publisher Web Service

How to use BI Publisher Web Service with JDeveloper 11G?

2010-04-16T14:58:00.001-07:00

How can I call BI Publisher Web Service from my Java application with JDeveloper? BI Publisher provides a set of Web Service APIs, with which you can do pretty much everything you can do from the UI such as running reports, scheduling reports, creating/editing/deleting reports, etc. With JDeveloper you can easily integrate the BI Publisher Web Service with your Java application and start

Cheat Sheet for BI Publisher Integration with BIEE - Part 2

2010-04-14T07:26:00.001-07:00

This is a follow up from the last post and today I’m going to talk about the following three integration points. Embedding BI Publisher Reports into BI Dashboard Answers Request as Data Source for BI Publisher Report BI Server as Data Source for BI Publisher Report Embedding BI Publisher Reports into Dashboard There are two ways to embed BI Publisher reports within the Dashboard

Cheat Sheet for BI Publisher Integration with BIEE - Part 1

2010-04-12T13:54:00.001-07:00

Do you still have BIEE and BI Publisher integration not working ? This integration of BI Publisher and BIEE has been there for quite a while and I’m sure many of you have done this and enjoying the integration. But still today, I hear from the fields that some people out there having some challenge to set it up. Though all the configuration steps required for the integration are all documented

Running Siebel Reports with Parameters

2010-03-18T07:51:00.001-07:00

“I want to select or pick a value before running the reports and filter the reporting data for Siebel reporting.” This is a very common requirement in reporting in general, which is to provide a parameter (or prompt) to the users, have them specify a value, and filter the returned data in the reports. With BI Publisher Server standalone UI, you can quickly create a parameter and run the

Enabling SSL for BI Publisher Standalone

2010-03-16T16:37:00.001-07:00

How to enable SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for my BI Publisher Server installed with OC4J standalone ? SSL is a cryptographic protocols that provides a encrypted therefore secured communications over internet. This can be enabled for your BI Publisher Server to secure the communication between the server and the clients. I’m sure many of you have installed BI Publisher as a part of Oracle BI EE

How to Migrate BI Publisher Reports to Production?

2010-03-16T07:24:00.001-07:00

How can I migrate all the reports developed at a development instance to a testing or production instance with BI Publisher Server ? This is very typical thing you as an administrator or reports developer would concern. The good news is, migrating BI Publisher reports from one instance to anther is pretty simple. All the reports are stored in a BI Publisher repository, which is typically on

Drill Down to Detail or Another Report

2010-02-18T13:20:00.001-08:00

I want to click some values in the report and see the detail report for the particular data. For example, when I see a Sales report and realize some regions sale revenue is way small and now I want to find something more detail to answer why, by opening up another report that has detail data for the particular regions. Well, this is sometimes called as ‘Drill Down’, sometimes ‘Report Link’,

How to Pass User Input Values to Report Layout?

2010-02-17T14:53:00.001-08:00

“I want to allow my users to enter their comment from the report UI and print it in the report along with the reporting data.” “I want to change the calculation or condition logic based on the user’s selection or inputs at the runtime.” These are the questions I hear once in a while and the short answer is ‘Yes’. For example, you can do something like below, which users type their comment and

I Want My Custom Java Function for Siebel!

2010-02-08T06:41:00.001-08:00

Have you ever wanted to create a new customized function and call that from your RTF templates so that you don’t have to implement a same condition or calculation logic again and again with many different reports ? I talked about this yesterday a little bit, but I had this problem when I was developing the Siebel reports and had to implement a date formatting or do some date related

My Date doesn’t like me with Siebel !

2010-01-29T07:13:00.001-08:00

Are you doing ok with your date in the Siebel reporting with BI Publisher ? If you are coming from Siebel this might make you kind of confused because the BI Publisher user’s guide tells you it supports all sorts of the date formatting and date related calculations but somehow it doesn’t work when you try with the Siebel reports. If you are coming from BI Publisher reporting world you might

What to Do with these Siebel Extended Functions?

2010-01-27T09:27:00.001-08:00

After you run the Actuate to BI Publisher conversion utility and open the generated RTF template file you would find something like below in the text forms, though it depends what you had in your old Actuate report.

Siebel’s Extended Function for RTF Template

2010-01-26T08:02:00.001-08:00

Has anyone noticed some funky functions after you converted the BAS (Actuate) files to BI Publisher’s RTF template ? These functions look confusing especially for some of us coming from pure BI Publisher side. And even worse, they are most likely throwing errors at you when you try to preview with the MS-Word Add-in Template Builder! So what are these? Well, these functions are there to help

What’s the Latest with Siebel Actuate Reports Conversion Utility?

2010-01-15T14:48:00.001-08:00

I have talked about the Actuate to BI Publisher reports conversion for Siebel by using the Actuate Migration Utility at this blog before. Actuate to BI Publisher Reports Conversion for Siebel – Part 1 Actuate to BI Publisher Reports Conversion for Siebel – Part 2 However, that was more than a couple of months ago therefore we’ve got some updates with the latest Actuate to BI

Can We Have BI Publisher Integration for Our Siebel Version without Major Upgrade?

2010-01-13T14:41:00.000-08:00

Some of our customers were asking if they needed to upgrade to Siebel R8.1.1.x version from the older release such as 8.0.x, 7.8.x, 7.7.x, to get the new Siebel Reporting with BI Publisher. The short answers is No. You can stay with your older release. Having worked with many customers projects, I know how tough and can be a long process to upgrade the whole system especially with this type of

BI Publisher Logging & Debugging - Part 4

2010-01-12T10:45:00.001-08:00

There are more topics I would like to talk about on the BI Publisher logging & debugging. Especially there is now a new feature that allows you to enable the 'Report Generation Logging’ option at each report template level. So instead of enabling the logging feature at the server level you can quickly and easily enable the logging feature only for the report you are working without asking for

BI Publisher Logging & Debugging – Part 3

2010-01-07T15:50:00.001-08:00

Yesterday, I have discussed how to enable and use the BI Publisher’s reporting level logging feature. Today, I would like to talk about how you can enable and use the BI Publisher Server level log information. At default setting BI Publisher logs only error information in a system output. You can enable BI Publisher to generate more information in the system output by setting its debug level to

BI Publisher Logging & Debugging - Part 2

2010-01-06T07:39:00.001-08:00

This is a follow up from the yesterday’s post. Now you know what type of logging options are available for you to debug and further analyze your BI Publisher reporting. Today, I’d like to focus on the first debugging option, ‘Logging for Reports Generation’ and discuss how to enable your BI Publisher instance to start generating such logging information. You can enable the logging feature

BI Publisher Logging & Debugging – Part 1

2010-01-05T09:07:00.000-08:00

After you develop your BI Publisher reports next you want to do is to test your reports to see if they work appropriately, if they perform fast enough to meet the end user’s expectation, if they scale when more users access to the reports, etc. And when you test your reports you need more information than what you see from the BI Publisher Server’s UI. This is where the BI Publisher’s logging

Common Header and Footer with Sub Template – Part 4

2009-12-03T06:36:00.000-08:00

This is the last post for this Sub Template series. Thanks for your reading! Before moving to a different topic, I just wanted to post some little tips around the Sub-Template. Dynamic Report Title, Not Hard-coded The header section often contains a report title, which should be del.icio.us Tags: Sub Template,RTF Template,Header,Footer,Best Practice unique per each report, so you don’t

Common Header and Footer with Sub Template – Part 3

2009-11-24T15:15:00.001-08:00

You have followed my last few posts but somehow it’s not working… Yep, that can be possible and probably the following two settings would be the cause for why it’s not working. Take a look and try that out! Set Proxy Server for HTTP Option If the BI Publisher is running inside the firewall then you need to set your Proxy server to your JVM for the HTTP option to work. Here is an example

Common Header and Footer with Sub Template – Part 2

2009-11-24T05:06:00.001-08:00

Construct Reference URI Dynamically When you reference the Sub-Template from the main template you need to specify an absolute path to the Sub-Template file with either the http or file option in the Import syntax. This is easy when you are developing your reports at your local machine or the development instance. However, sometimes you don’t know where the Sub-Template files will end up being

Common Header and Footer Style with Sub Template

2009-11-23T08:10:00.001-08:00

When you develop a report you usually want to have a header and footer section. And when you develop more reports you probably copy and paste the header and footer section from the first report so that all the reports will have a same look and feel with a company logo, report title, reporting date, copy right, etc. Now you have developed a lot of reports with the same header and footer and you

Dynamic Date Parameter – Current Date

2009-11-18T12:50:00.001-08:00

This is actually really not known trick maybe it is not documented in the user’s guide yet, but BI Publisher supports a ‘dynamic date parameter’. WHAT??? Ok, so don’t you want to set the default date for the date parameter of the report and make it to be a today’s date or a week before or something ? Or, don’t you want to schedule your report and want it to generate always the last 7 days of

JNDI for BI Server – Part 2

2009-11-17T07:26:00.001-08:00

This is a follow up for the post I’ve written some time back about the JNDI data source for the Oracle BI Server. Recently I’ve had a chance to revisit this subject when one of our clients had a performance issue with their BI Publisher reports. The issue was that when they were trying to open a report it takes a long time to get the page with all the parameters. This issue became to be worse

Query is cancelled with BI EE, Why?

2009-11-16T15:41:00.001-08:00

Have you ever had a situation where your BI Publisher report, which is using BI Answers as the data source, is returning no result with a message ‘The query was cancelled.’ after around 5 mins? One of our top BIEE/BI Publisher consultant, Sandeep Bade, encountered this issue at one of his projects and found out why and the solution. There is a BI Presentation property called,

What Administrators Should Do for Siebel Reporting with BI Publisher?

2009-09-02T13:30:00.001-07:00

There are a couple of things you want to perform as Administrators to manage the Siebel Reporting environment and maintain the BI Publisher reports in Siebel. Here is a list of the tasks that the Administrators should be responsible for. Purging Siebel Reports Optimize Siebel Reporting Environment Enabling Logging for Debugging Purging Siebel Reports When the users run the Siebel

Install and Setup BI Publisher for Siebel Reporting

2009-09-01T09:25:00.001-07:00

Siebel Business Applications ship with pre-developed BI Publisher reports. Using views in a Siebel application, you can run such pre-installed reports or create your own custom reports in both the connected and disconnected modes. Please take a look at ‘Siebel Reporting Architecture with BI Publisher’ for the detail architecture of connected and disconnected modes. In disconnected mode, BI

Single Source of Truth - BI Publisher in Siebel

2009-08-31T07:44:00.001-07:00

I have written about Siebel reporting with BI Publisher and the reports conversion from Actuate to BI Publisher last week here. However, since the development group in Oracle has been working on some enhancements to improve the reporting and migration process better so at some point in future the information on those posts might become to be staled. So I’m listing the source of information where

6 Keys to Deliver Successful Reports Conversion Projects

2009-08-27T13:24:00.001-07:00

Why Are We Doing This? I hear often something like ‘we need to convert 100 numbers of reports within next two months, can you do it?’ Well, the answer might be Yes or No, it depends on budget, timeline, and other constraints. But more importantly, do we really need to convert all the 100 reports? We need to look at all the reports by asking, 'How many reports are really used today?’, ‘How many

Actuate to BI Publisher Reports Conversion for Siebel – Part 2

2009-08-26T17:26:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, we were looking at how to convert Actuate reports to BI Publisher by using the Conversion Assistant tool. Now you got the Actuate reports converted to BI Publisher reports. The next step is how to enable the BI Publisher reports in Siebel application. I’m going to talk about the steps to upload and register the BI Publisher RTF Template files and associate them with relevant Siebel

Actuate to BI Publisher Reports Conversion for Siebel – Part 1

2009-08-24T10:34:00.003-07:00

Actuate to BI Publisher for Siebel As you have seen in the previous posts the Siebel Reporting with BI Publisher architecture uses BI Publisher only for the reports layout generation, not for the data generation. It uses the Integration Objects, which are metadata objects in Siebel Business Applications that provide the ability to obtain Siebel data in XML format, within EAI Siebel Adapter to

Running BI Publisher Reports in Siebel

2009-08-21T14:42:00.001-07:00

After the previous post, now you know how BI Publisher is integrated within the Siebel architecture as the reporting platform. The next question would be, ‘how to run the BI Publisher reports in Siebel?’ and that is the question I’m going to address today. But it’s really a simple process to run the reports. Siebel application is all Web UI so you can login to Siebel application and navigate to a

Siebel Reporting Architecture with BI Publisher

2009-08-20T13:34:00.001-07:00

BI Publisher is the Reporting Platform for Siebel BI Publisher has been introduced to Siebel users since its Release 8.1.1 as a new reporting platform replacing the older Actuate base reporting platform. It is tightly integrated with the Siebel architecture and its applications. The users can run and manage their reports with BI Publisher from Siebel applications UI. Siebel 8.1.1 Statement

Oracle Consulting Service - Oracle Reports to BI Publisher Migration (Conversion)

2009-08-19T09:29:00.003-07:00

Before going to the ‘Actuate to BI Publisher Conversion’ topic, I would like to introduce our consulting services prepared specifically to the ‘Oracle Reports to BI Publisher Migration (Conversion)’. There are two types of the services. One is, ‘Complete Migration Service’, which is to provide a service to convert the entire existing Oracle Reports base reports to BI Publisher base reports.

Oracle Reports Migration to BI Publisher in EBS – Part 3

2009-08-18T11:47:00.001-07:00

Register BI Publisher Report Template to EBS After you have completed converting the Oracle Reports RDF file to BI Publisher Data Template and RTF Template with the conversion tool, the next step is to register such template files. You can do so by logging into the EBS web UI with BI Publisher Administrator responsibility and register them. After the registration you need to update the existing

Oracle Reports Migration to BI Publisher in EBS – Part 2

2009-08-17T09:30:00.001-07:00

Run the Conversion Command Line Tool The conversion utility is a Java command line tool and requires a set of BI Publisher related Java library (JAR) files, which you can find from your BI Publisher Server or Desktop installation. In order to run the conversion utility you need to set CLASSPATH with the library files first. If you have BI Publisher server installed then the below is an example

Oracle Reports Migration to BI Publisher for EBS – Part 1

2009-08-14T07:56:00.001-07:00

BI Publisher (XML Publisher) in EBS Oracle EBS is the first application which had integrated with BI Publisher more than 5 years ago and converted its main reporting platform to BI publisher from Oracle Reports and now it's providing over 2000 pre-seeded BI Publisher base reports. So the integration is pretty mature and robust. Because of this long history BI Publisher is still called as ‘XML

BI Publisher Reports Conversion

2009-08-13T10:54:00.001-07:00

So, we are back after almost 2 months long break! :) We were working on many other BIEE/BI Publisher projects and realized it’s already August! hence haven’t updated this blog for that long… Anyway, back to the subject, today I’m going to talk about the BI Publisher reports conversion. As most of you have already known, BI Publisher is a Oracle’s strategic Fusion Apps reporting platform. We had

JNDI Data Source for Oracle BI Server

2009-05-04T12:40:00.001-07:00

In the previous couple of posts you saw how to create the JNDI data source for a database data source and use it from BI Publisher. But what if you want to connect to Oracle BI Server as the data source? You can create the JDPBC connection pool for the BI Server and register it as a JNDI entry, then use it as JNDI data source in BI Publisher just as same as you do with the database. Today, I’

JNDI Connection for WebLogic Server

2009-04-28T13:35:00.001-07:00

I have already talked about how to create the JNDI data source for OC4J and how to use it in BI Publisher. The same configuration for the OC4J can be also applied to Oracle Application Server. But how about Oracle WebLogic Server? Today I’ll talk about how to create a database connection pool and register with JNDI on WebLogic Server. JDBC Data Source with JNDI Creation on WebLogic Server

Register JNDI Connection in BI Publisher

2009-04-27T07:49:00.001-07:00

So yesterday you created a JDBC connection pool and register it with JNDI at the OC4J server. Today I’ll go through how to register the JNDI data source so that you can use that as a data source for your reports. Once you register the JNDI data source it’s exactly the same in terms of how to use it when you develop your reports. In fact, the reports developer wouldn’t even recognize the

JNDI Connection for OC4J

2009-04-24T07:58:00.001-07:00

Today I’m going to go through on how to create the Database Connection Pool and JNDI on OC4J. If you’re not sure about the Database Connection Pool and JNDI please check the previous post. I’ll use Oracle database as a data source and Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) that comes with OC4J as a tool to create the Database Connection Pool and JNDI. Access to Enterprise Manager (EM) First you need

JNDI Data Source?

2009-04-23T08:15:00.001-07:00

You may have seen the JNDI data source menu at the BI Publisher Admin page and have wondered what and when to use it. What is JNDI? So what is JNDI? JNDI stands for Java Naming and Directory Interface. Here is an excerpt from ‘Oracle Containers for J2EE Services Guide’. --- “JNDI provides naming and directory functionality for J2EE applications and components. JNDI is defined independently

Deployment for Another OC4J Container

2009-04-10T14:35:00.001-07:00

Interestingly enough, I have received a couple of queries in the last few weeks on whether we can deploy BI Publisher Enterprise server in another OC4J container other than the default ‘home’. If you are using Oracle Application Server you can create multiple OCJ4 instances and manage them separately. So the question would be ‘How to deploy to another OC4J container and what are the extra steps?’

Installation for Oracle WebLogic Server

2009-04-01T13:53:00.000-07:00

If you need to install BI Publisher to other than the default embedded version of OC4J server then the installation process is always manual steps. No installer. You can go through the BI Publisher Installation guide for the detail. But today, I’ll cover the BI Publisher installation for Oracle WebLogic Server. I use WebLogic Server 10GR3 (10.3) version as example. BI Publisher Installation

Manual Install for OC4J instance

2009-03-31T14:13:00.001-07:00

Manual install in BI Publisher means you deploy a BI Publisher EAR file by using your J2EE application server utility and configure the BI Publisher repository. Why Manual Install? There are several cases where you want to consider the manual installation. You already have OC4J server up and running. No need to install the whole suite. Instead want to install or reinstall only the BI

BI Publisher Enterprise Deployment

2009-03-18T12:52:00.001-07:00

From today I would like to start covering on the BI Publisher installation topic. As you know BI Publisher Enterprise server is a standard J2EE application, that means you can deploy (or install) the BI Publisher Enterprise onto any of the application server that supports J2EE standard. Such server would be Oracle Application Server, Oracle WebLogic server, IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, etc. Here

XSL-FO for BI Publisher

2009-03-17T13:54:00.001-07:00

What is XSL-FO? XSL-FO stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects. It is a XML-based markup language for formatting XML data. How does it look? How is it defined? Typically FO template has two sections. One is ‘fo:layout-master-set’ and another is ‘fo:page-sequence master-reference=”main-template”’ The ‘layout-master-set’ section can contain multiple templates and

XSLT for BI Publisher

2009-03-17T07:18:00.000-07:00

What is XSLT? Today, I’ll cover the basic of the XSLT. Basic development of BI Publisher RTF Template doesn’t require the XSLT coding. However, when you start developing advanced reports having a good understanding of the XSLT will help you to develop the RTF Template efficiently and provide richer functionality. I’ll cover the benefit of using XSLT at the end of this posting.

XSL/XPATH for BI Publisher

2009-03-16T15:30:00.002-07:00

When you start developing RTF Templates and try to do something a bit advanced most likely you start seeing these words, XSL, XSLT, XPATH, XSL-FO…. And they might have scared or confused you. I’ve met many people use those terms without a correct understanding and everybody uses them in different ways so even I get sometimes confused when I talk with them. ;-) I think the part of the reason is

Rules to Remember with XML

2009-03-16T15:30:00.001-07:00

Rules to RememberWe have covered the basic knowledge of XML. Now there are some standard rules you need to follow when you work with XML files. Any validation of the rules will throw you an error by any standard XML processor including the one used by BI Publisher. Good news is, XML has only a few rules and all the rules actually make sense and most importantly they are easy enough to follow.So

XML Basic You Need to Know

2009-03-16T15:29:00.002-07:00

Well, what can I say... It's been a long time. We've got involved in many of BI Publisher or Advanced Reporting related projects in past months and couldn't find a time to update the blog. I know that's such a BS, so let's move on.... ;-)Today, I'll talk about the basic of XML as part of the 'Before you start RTF Template' series.I’m sure you have already seen XML files and known what the files

Before You Start RTF Template Development

2009-03-16T15:29:00.001-07:00

Anybody can start developing RTF Template with MS-Word right away. You download Template Builder, which is a MS-Word Add-in, and install it, then load a sample XML data file or connect to BI Publisher Enterprise Server, now you can use Template Builder’s UI wizard to construct tables, charts, or even crosstabs just a matter of 10 seconds or so. (I mean, just to start with!) From there you can

Oracle BI Publisher Consulting?

2009-03-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

Do you know there is a group in Oracle who specializes in delivery BI Publisher based solutions ? Yes, there is such group exists today! And we are the one who have been delivering many of successful BI Publisher related projects for the last 2 years and plus. We are from EPM & BI consulting group within Oracle North America consulting organization. Our mission is to deliver BI Publisher related