Attaching additional BLOB pdf document to an email snet by BIP Bursting

Question

Hi,
I am trying to attach an additional pdf document which is stored in the database as a BLOB to an email that is sent via BIP bursting. I am using Oracle Applications v11.5.10.2. Does anyone have any input on how to do this or if its possible? Basically, I am generating a BIP report and sending it in an email using the Bursting process within BIP, but I want to attach an additional .pdf document to the same email. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ray

Answer 1

Dynamic Delivery Content
You can reference information in the XML data to be put into the delivery content. This
takes the same format described above (that is, ${ELEMENT}).
For example, suppose you wanted to burst a document to employees via e-mail and
personalize the e-mail by using the employee's name in the subject line. Assuming the
employee's name is held in an element called ENAME, you could use ${ENAME} to
reference the employee's name in the control file as follows:
subject="Employee Details for ${ENAME}"
Sample Control File
The following sample control file shows an example control file to split data based on
an EMPLOYEE element and send an e-mail to each employee with their own data. The
sample file is annotated.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xapi:requestset xmlns:xapi="[http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/xapi]">
<xapi:request select="/EMPLOYEES/EMPLOYEE"><! - This sets the bursting
element i.e., EMPLOYEE - >
<xapi:delivery>
<xapi:email server="rgmamersmtp.oraclecorp.com" port="25"
from="[[email protected]|mailto:[email protected]]" reply-to ="[[email protected]|mailto:[email protected]]">
<xapi:message id="123" to="${EMAIL}" cc="${EMAIL_ALL}"
attachment="true" subject="Employee Details
for ${ENAME}"> Mr. ${ENAME}, Please review the
attached document</xapi:message><! - This assigns a delivery id
of '123'. It also sets the e-mail
address of the employee and a cc copy to a parameter value
EMAIL_ALL; this might be a manager's e-mail. The employee's
name (ENAME) can also be used in the subject/body
of the email. - ></xapi:email>
</xapi:delivery>
<xapi:document output-type="pdf" delivery="123">
<xapi:template type="rtf" location="/usr/tmp/empGeneric.rtf">
<xapi:template type="rtf" location="/usr/tmp/empDet.rtf"
filter=".//EMPLOYEE[ENAME='SMITH']" ><! - Employees with the name
SMITH will have
the empDet template applied - >
</xapi:template>
</xapi:document>
</xapi:request>
</xapi:requestset>