Who should attend
- Business analysts
- End users
- Technical consultants
Prerequisites
- 11i eBusiness Suite Essentials for Implementers
Course Objectives
- Create and use a portable document format (PDF) template
- Create and use an rich text format (RTF) template
- Deploy, create, and modify templates on an eBusiness Suite instance
- Describe the underlying XML standards
- Explain the basic concepts and uses of Oracle XML Publisher
- Set up, configure, and use the Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise server
Product Description
- Course Overview
- Introduction
- Classic Reporting Tools Issues
- Advantages of Oracle BI Publisher
- Oracle BI Publisher Technology
- Working with Oracle BI Publisher Desktop
- Installing Oracle BI Publisher Desktop
- Running the Installer
- Understanding Oracle BI Publisher Desktop
- Creating an RTF Template
- Understanding Field Properties
- Creating a Chart
- Oracle BI Publisher Architecture
- Components of Oracle BI Publisher
- Architecture of Oracle BI Publisher
- Introduction to the Standards
- XML Standards Objectives
- Components of XML Documents
- Well-Formed XML Documents
- Creating an XML Document
- Editing XML
- Understanding XML Namespaces
- Document Type Definition
- Understanding the XML Schema
- Introduction to the Standards, cont.
- Creating an XML Schema Document
- Using the JDeveloper XML Schema Editor
- Registering an XML Schema
- Using the XML Schema-Aware Editor
- Understanding XML Path
- Understanding XSL
- Understanding Template Rules
- Using XSLT
- Installing Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise
- Installing Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 5.6.2
- Installing Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 5.6.2 on Windows
- Installing Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 5.6.2 on Linux
- Installing Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 5.6.2 Patches
- RTF Templates
- Using the Basic Method
- Editing an RTF Template
- Understanding BI Publisher Template Viewer
- Viewing the Report
- Using the Form Field Method
- Creating a Template Using the Form Field Method
- Previewing the Report
- Associating XML Data
- RTF Templates, cont.
- Designing Template Layouts
- Designing Template Layouts
- Image, Charts, and Graphics
- Data-driven Shape Support
- Template Features
- Conditional Formatting
- Page-level Calculations
- Data Handling, Variables, Parameters, and Properties
- Working with Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Edition
- Accessing the Administration Options
- Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Server Administration
- Working with User Roles
- Understanding Other Admin Options
- Working with Reports
- Understanding Report Actions
- Using the Online Analyzer
- Working with the Analyzer
- Working with Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Edition, cont.
- Creating a New Folder
- Understanding Folder Actions
- Creating a Query
- Understanding Folder Actions
- Creating a Query
- Translating Reports
- Using the XLIFF Option
- Understanding XLIFF Files and Adding a Report File Translation
- Other Templates
- PDF Template
- Field Properties Options
- Adding a Check Box
- Working with PDF Template
- ETEXT Templates
- Integration with Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
- Publishing a Report from the Answer Request
- Creating Answers Request
- Creating a Report
- Publishing a Report from BI Server
- Creating a Query
- E-Business Suite Development Suite
- Creating an XML Publisher Solution
- Searching and Modifying and Existing Report
- Modifying a Report
- Building a Data Template
- Understanding the XML Publisher Data Template
- Creating the XML Publisher Data Template
- Advanced eBusiness Suite Concepts
- Understanding FSG Templates
- Using Specialized Fonts
- XML Publisher Bursting
- Migrating Oracle Reports to XML Publisher
- Administration in 11i eBusiness Suite
- Customize the Behavior of BI Publisher
- Moving Templates and Data Definitions
- XML Publisher Report Standards
- General Guidelines
- Report Layout Guidelines
- Data Formatting in a Report