Capabilities of BI Publisher

Hi All,
I am new to BI Publisher. I have some requirements to implement using BI. Please clarify the following queries
1. Is parameter validation possible, Example if user enter a furture date etc, then throw an error before scheduling.
2. I have seen sample Macro for scripting. What are the capabilities or can you provide any references?
Thanks in advance

Thanx for reply. Can you also explain about macro scripting capabilities?

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Just started evaluating XML Publisher as a possibility for reporting multiple Balanced Scorecard KPIs from E-Business Suite onto one report, as that functionality is NOT provided by Oracle.
I presume the idea of XML Publisher is to make development of Reports faster and easier, with less technical knowledge required than perhaps using something like Oracle Reports
To be honest with an initial look I have found it to be quite disappointing, especially in respect to graphing.
I wanted to create a graph where I could display Multiple Series of Data on the one Bar Graph i.e. Actual, Budget, Forecast, by Period
The "Wizard" in Release 5.6.0 only allows me to select the "sum" of a single "Measure"
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So I have managed to do that by manually adding additional <RowData> items
However I don't feel that confident in recommending we attempt to use XML Publisher yet for "advanced" reporting, as it seems to have as many peculiarities, issues as Reports Developer, and probably requires a similar level of Expertise/Experience
I am sure for a basic report, it is quite easy to achieve something quickly and easily, but generally nowadays requirements are not simple
The resources I have found that seem to relate to graphs are;
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/reports/htdocs/faq/graph_faq_with_style.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/reports/htdocs/getstart/whitepapers/graphdtd/graph_dtd_technote_2.html
Is there any other resources out there that would be helpful ?
Jeremy

Thanks for your reply
I will check out those possibilities if I have time, as mentioned we are not really developers and were looking for the true benefits marketed for using XML Publisher of reports being "designed using Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat "
Let hope the graphing and other functionality makes it into a release soon

How do I get the RSS feeds to work in iWeb'08 when published to FTP server?

There are so many unresolved questions because I have published to an FTP server (Netfirms). HOWEVER, my next task at hand is to resolve the issue of a non-working RSS feed and download capabilities.
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Please help! I am doing the best I can to stay in love with Mac but he is turning out to be a pot load of work and the love affair is wearing a little thin.
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Thank you for checking, Tom,
I'm confused. What do YOU get when you push the feed button? And why is it working on yours and not either of my machines?
Today, my Mac (w/Safari 4) gets the same error message: Safari can’t open the page Safari can’t open the page “feed:http://vibrationalvoyages/vibrationalvoyages.com/DivineLight_Vibrations_Principles_andApplications/rss.xml”. The error is: “The feed could not be loaded because the content is not in a known feed format.”
My little ASUS (with a Linux operating system) gets a screen that says "The requested URL was not found". The URL on that page is http://vibrationalvoyages./vibrationalvoyages.com/DivineLight_Vibrations_Principles_andApplications/rss.xml
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The last URL was, of course, the URL generated by iWeb.
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GG

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Start of root element expected

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Arabic Data is break Aparted and reverse in chart

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Hy Alireza,
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition version 10.1.3.3.1 offers support for Arabic , Thai, and Hebrew. Due to a limitation in the charting engine that is used in Oracle BI EE, bidirectional and Thai language characters do not render properly in charts.
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Ingo,
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location: class oracle.generated.SqlStmtsBase
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FINE: ValueTypeModeler.log [creating port: oracle.generated.SqlStmts]
FINE: MethodModeler.log [creating operation: updtProdTyp]
FINE: MethodModeler.log [creating operation: updtProdTypiSS]
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Thu Mar 30 14:17:34
Thanks
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I don't have the problem with the second arugument, using essentially the same command as yours. Could you make sure you clean up the following subdirectories and retry:
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I created a few portal pages associated with folders in WLP Repository. These pages contain portlets which display the content of the associated folders of a repository.
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In addition to my post#1 next information to break youк mind.
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--Alexander

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