'&' character and BI Publisher Intergration

Just wanted to post this for others when they start using BI Publisher and APEX.. I have a number of reports in APEX that we are using BI Publisher to produce printed output. In one of the reports I had a & in the region title in APEX. When BI Publisher was called, the PDF generation seemed to hang.
After re-doing the page and changing the region title to NOT have the '&' character the PDF is now working properly...
Just a note, since it seems to be not documented anywhere that I can see..
Thank you,
Tony Miller
UTMB/EHN

Hi Tony,
What do you mean with "bad results"?
I normally use BI Publisher Desktop to do the
breaking (the RTF editor/plugin like you describe in
Word). I find the breaking there more
powerful/advanced then what APEX gives you at the
moment. For ex. have a look at Tim Dexter's example
here:
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/10/30
Hope that helps,
DimitriAgreed, however, I am trying to build reports that can be viewed as APEX pages, and have pdf output for printing..
If the report queries could support a function returning sql, then I could what I want(Have button on form to call report query, produce pdf with no apex displaying of data).
Users are wanting to see this, so they can have quick view of data in some cases..
Seems that APEX needs to send all columns to BI Publisher and let it deal with the grouping as it wants to...
Other than that, and the $$$ to license BI Publisher, I am liking the intergration..
Any thoughts or suggestions? (maybe this can be taken off-line, since it is straying away from the original topic..)
Thank you,
Tony Miller
UTMB/EHN

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