BI Publisher V/S Oracle Reports

Hi,
Need some information on BI Publisher.
1. Which is easier with respect to designing the report BI/XML Publisher or reports 10g?
2. Any feature which is available in Reports 10g is not available in BI Publisher?
3. Is it possible to create drill down reports using BI Publisher?
Thanks in advance,
Shree

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2. Any feature which is available in Reports 10g is not available in BI Publisher?Yeah: an usable design tool! I'm evaluating BI Pub and I must admit, it's a nightmare! First it looks easy when you see these little simple one page table demos. But when you try to build your own reports from scratch it's a horror! You have put tiny little xsl fragments into your Word-RTF-document and this leads to a trial and errorr game. For me, an Oracle Reports professional, this product is a joke! I don't want to know, what happens, when you generate reports over 1000 pages, for Oracle Reports no problem, but for Bipub?
My last problem: You have a Table Wizard in your Bipub-Plugin. This Wizard should generate a table with grouping columns. Works fine, when you put your grouping column on top of the table (the reason why you can see this in all these nice demos). But when you want to have your grouping column left to the others, the wizard generates a table in the table and the heading of the other cols on the level of the grouping col. Absolutely unusable. And it's not easy to bring this in a good looking form.
MS Word is not a report design tool, never! It's good for mail-merging, but not for more. Ok, you can code your whole report with xsl! Do you really want this?
In my opinion there is no reason to go from Oracle Reports to BI Publisher, unless you want to do mail merging.
And I'm not alone with my opinion: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5194787
Bye,
Rumburak

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2) and then upload the template files to a location (e.g. folder on the server)
3) then all user in the company can access it by a web browser with some fields which they can enter some critiria (e.g. purchase order number).
4) then send to printer and the print out should look exactly like the template.
Unfortunately, we had very bad time on try to find out what we need and how to publish that Oracle report we created. We spent 15 hours on that but no result.
In that 15 hours we tried to setup the "Oracle report service", but at last my colleague said that wasnt what we looking for, the "Oracle report service" is for reporting the error from the application hosted on the server, not for publish the company report created by the "Oracle report bulider" .
We use Oracle Database 10g for the ERP quite a long time already. We had the Oracle Developer Setup, and the Application Server Installed.
Could someone please tell us what kind of Oracle service we are actually looking for. Any other suggestion and setup guides are also the most welcoming.
Best Regards
Bryan

Hello,
If you want to be able to execute your Reports on the web, the best solution is to use the "Oracle Application Server"
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/101202.html
For example , the "Forms & Reports Services Standalone" edition
Then, use the Reports Servlet to submit the execution requests to a Reports Server :
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_17/bi.1012/b14048/pbr_run.htm
Oracle® Application Server Reports Services Publishing Reports to the Web
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)
B14048-02
13 Running Report Requests
http://www.oracle.com/webapps/online-help/reports/10.1.2/topics/htmlhelp_rwbuild_hs/rwwhthow/howto/runprint/deploy_rpt.htm
Deploying a report
Regards

From Oracle Reports to Bi Publisher :) [Closed]

Hello.. First I'll explain our situation :)
In our company when we create reports (using oracle reports) we have to insert in our before report trigger this: srw.user_exit('FND SRWINIT') ..An in the after report trigger this: srw.user_exit('FND SRWEXIT') Because this is needed for the CEMLIs (configurations, extensions, modifications, localization, and integrations) of the company in order to measure the time each report takes to finish.
I’ve made some reports using XML Publisher (Bi Publisher) and they are working great :) ..But now some people here are asking me if I could use those same instructions in order to get the information of the time.
I read at Tim’s Blog this:
“.. In good ol Oracle Reports you just added the following command in your before report trigger: srw.user_exit('FND SRWINIT') and it was all done for you. In the world of BIP we go one step further. The executable that runs your data template sets the org id for you so you do not have to do anything. Now there is a caveat to this, as long as you are using the BIP delivered executable (XDODTEXE) in EBS to call the data engine to run your data templates you're fine..” (http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/03/22)
We are using the executable XDODTEXE in EBS so I told them we don’t need to use those commands. But when they tested a process in order to get the info of the time (CEMLIs) they got no information.
Now I’m trying to insert in the data template the beforeReport and afterReport Triggers. But.. I don’t know what I should insert as the source:
<dataTrigger name=”beforeReport” source=”???????”/>
*Should I use something like SRW.INIT?
*Or is this already done when we run the concurrent using the XDODTEXE executable? (if yes, how can I verify this?)
*Is any of this possible (use those instructions of reports in bi publisher)?
Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks :)
~ Cori ~
(sorry if I misspelled something.. my English is not very good hehe :P)

Hello Tim, Thanks for your reply :)
Some people of Oracle told us we needed to use this command because with this a trace file is created. This are the steps they gave us (this is only used at OnDemand):
1) to be able to run a CEMLI, on the report you have to use in a before report trigger: srw.user_exit('FND SRWINIT'). In the after report trigger: srw.user_exit('FND SRWEXIT') (we didn't follow this step because we're using XDODTEXE as the executable)
2) in the report add a numeric parameter named ‘P_CONC_REQUEST_ID’
3) activate the Trace Option in the concurrent of the report.
4) execute the concurrent of the report
5) execute the concurrent ‘CEMLI Performance Checker’
6) fill the cemli_performance_standard file (this is a .xls file we have) with the information that was on the output of step No 5
We weren't getting the output of step No 5.. But now we could make it work :D
We were skipping step No 2, we just added the parameter and now everything is working fine :)
Thanks :)
~ Cori ~

Oracle Reports Components list not available in BI Publisher

I have configured the Oracle Report Security settings in oracle Business intelligence publisher, Add oracle report, when i try to ADD report in region, it didn't display Oracle Reports Components list. Pl suggest, what should i do
Regards,

I had a similar issue in 10.3.3.1.
Try this:
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/oracle-bi-publisher-and-bi-ee-invisible-admin-tab/

Migrating Oracle Reports to Publisher in 11g

Greetings!
We are developing a project with the purpose of migrating some Oracle Reports files to Oracle BI Publisher 11g. We know that there is a tool called BIPBatchConversion available in Bi Publisher 10.1.3.4.1 but I couldn't find this utility in Bi Publisher 11g.
Should I use this utility from Bi Publisher 10.1.3.4.1 and then migrate to Bi Publisher 11g or there is other option available?
Thanks!
Ramiro Ortíz.

Hi Ramiro
You got it right
Oracle REports --> 10g BIP --> 11BP
There is a migration tool to take your 10g BIP reports to 11g BIP - I believe its covered in the user docs
Tim

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Hello,
I've been trying to convert my Oracle Reports to use XML Publisher templates and make the canned reports more visually appealing. I've been following the steps described in note 295409.1 on metalink to change OR output to XML and calling the XMLP Engine to apply the template.
However I'm encountering errors when XMLP is calling the template. In order to jump start my template development, I've used the utility in Release 12 to change the RDF file into the PL/SQL packages and RTF template. Then I am attempting to reengineer these templates back into 11.5.10 and uploading them via XML Publisher Administrator. I am experiencing the errors described in the following forum thread:
XML Publisher error..urgent
I've located the problem within the template itself, but is this because of the conversion utility in release 12 (XML Version 5.6.3) is not compatible with our current XMLP version of 5.6.2 in 11i?
Any assistance would be helpful.
Thanks!
Ellen

This could have something to do with the fact that your printer is not set up correctly. Can you run a plain text (OReports) file output to the same printer? If not, then the printer is not set up in FND correctly. If you can ...
Remeber that unless you have a more modern printer that can handle PDF documents natively then XMLPs PDF is going to need to be converted to PS or PCL. I would suggest you investigate the PASTA printer driver and get that set up. It provides the ability to call a program pdf2ps for instance, to convert the PDF to PS. There is a bunch of info on metalink
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Publish a Report with a title by OracleAs Reports Services

Hi folks,
I use the OracleAs Reports Services to publish my reports (10g version),
the problem is that the title output is always like this: http://mywebserver/myservletpath/rwservlet/getjobid[id]?server=repsrvr.
Is there a way to publish this report with a title on the web browser like 'MyReport'.
Thanks.

Hello,
If you have access to Metalink, you can use the RDF provided in the note :
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oraclebarcode.jar :
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Regards

Publish Oracle Reports/Forms as Portlet

Hai,
Is it possible to publish Reports6i/Forms6i
as portlet?!.
with best regards,
Mathan

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bill lankenau:
Yes
For Reports 6i integration with Oracle9iAs Portal see the Oracle9iAS Documentation Library under "Business Intelligence Services", "Oracle Reports Service", "Publishing Reports to the Web" Section 5.4 Integration with Oracle Portal. Another resource to check out is the Reports page on OTN at: http://technet.oracle.com/products/reports/ and the whitepaper "Security Tips in Oracle Reports Services Release 6i with Oracle Portal Release 3.0".
For Forms 6i, integration is accomplished at the URL level - simply create a portlet (HTML portlet, folder portlet, dynamic page portlet, etc.) that contains the Form's application URL. Users with a Java-enabled browser click on the link and the form is launched in a separate window. In theory you could copy the Forms applet tag within a dynamic page component, start it in place, and expose as a portlet, but will likely experience unacceptable page rendering performance waiting for the Forms applet to start.
If SSO is important, you can configure Forms as an external application with the Login Server using Forms dynamic start feature. Be aware that Forms is using the 'get' method not the 'post' method and that you will see the username/password in the URL (this will change in a future release).
The next generation of Forms, code named Cherokee, will provide highly interactive HTML forms directly within a portlet. Developers can use Cherokee much like they use Oracle9iAS Forms to declaratively build data entry forms that function like the Java or client/server-based forms of the past, but instead are rendered in pure HTML. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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