Report Printing Issue ,. Please help

Question

I have report query and when testing the report I get the following error. Can someone please help with necessary steps.
ORA-20001: The printing engine could not be reached because either the URL specified is incorrect or a proxy URL needs to be specified.
Thanks
George

Answer 1

All,
I think there are now a number of issues discussed in this thread, so here are a few clarifications:
- If you use BI Publisher as the print server, then you can access BI Publisher through a URL, this URL along with the configured port was supplied during the install. It is also listed in the documentation. It's typically something like this:
http://yourhost.domain:port/xmlpserver
- If you use another print server (Apache FOP, Cocoon, etc), then it depends on that server whether or not there's a browser accessible configuration utility, e.g when using Apache FOP along with Oracle OC4J, then the URL would be something like this:
http://yourhost.domain:port/em
This takes you to the "Enterprise Manager" for OC4J from where you can deploy the war file and also review the log files to diagnose potential issues.
- Regarding the RTF vs XSL-FO question, for new users I would recommend using report regions along with the burned in generic, configurable report layouts first, and see how far that gets you and only if you need further customization I would recommend using XSL-FO templates. And when doing so, start with the generic XSL-FO templates, because they are being pre-populated, so you won't have to start from scratch but can modify existing templates.
Regards,
Marc