Embedded Attachments in BI Publisher Report

Is it possible to embed attachments (like other Word docs, etc.) into a BI Publisher Report? When viewing the report as PDF for example, the user would be able to double-click the attachment and open it up in the native client. If it is possible, how is this achieved?

look at drill-down report as in example Oracle BI Publisher Consulting: Drill Down to Detail or Another Report

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Have created a BI Publisher report in MS-Word, used hyperlinks for drilling down to the lowest level of detail.
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Is there any possiblity to drilldown in BI Publisher (viewed as HTML) using expand and collapse button like structure?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Baddam

Hopefully this blog article by Tim Dexter will help: http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/01/formatting_html_with_templates.html
Thanks!

Query on fetching the no.of days between Invoice date and due date in rtf template embedded BI Publisher Report

Hi Experts,
We have a requirement to fetch the value of 'No of days' between Invoice date and due date (Two variable date fields on the template) in an Analysis.
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Regards,
Rev

it's good for ideas but implementation a bit different
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Report Designer's Guide
This function provides a method to get the difference between two dates in the given locale. The dates need to be in "yyyy-MM-dd" format. This function supports only the Gregorian calendar. The syntax is as follows:
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OBIEE 10g Dashboard Design- Embedding BI publisher report

Hello all,
i am trying for a specific layout functionality in the dashboard page.
i want to display all the (BI publisher) report links in one section and upon clicking on each link the report should open in another section but in the same dashboard page.
like i will create two dashboard columns where one would display report links and other would have section for the report display.
please help me in acheiving this functionality as this is an important requirement for the client.
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Hi,
From the available Dashboard Objects select BI Publisher Report.. and browse your report in Publisher...
for more see my earliear post:
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9897741&#9897741
Check here :
http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/bip/configuration_bip
All steps are described.
The Integration Step of Oracle BI Presentation Service is in this paragraph.
http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/bip/configuration_bip#integration_of_oracle_bi_presentation_service
Thanks
Deva
Edited by: Devarasu on Sep 30, 2011 10:08 AM

Attachments in XML Publisher

Our attachments are on a web server.
We have an XML Publisher report for batches. Some of the batches have attachments that defined as "Web Page".
We want to print the content of the attachments (MS Word, MS Excel or PDF files), together with our report.
Is there any way to print an external file with XMLP report?
Thanks.

i am using xml publisher for general report writing NOT FOR EBS...
following is my data template which works fine and generates xml data
<dataTemplate name="A_SIMPLE_REPORT">
<properties>
<property name="xml_tag_case" value="upper"/>
</properties>
<parameters>
<parameter name="P_PARM" dataType="character"/>
</parameters>
<dataQuery>
<sqlStatement name="QUERYNAME">
<![CDATA[
select empno EMPNO
, ename ENAME
, job JOB
from
scott.emp
where 'XYZ' = nvl(:P_PARM, 'XYZ')
]]>
</sqlStatement>
</dataQuery>
<dataStructure>
<group name="G_UPPERGROUP" dataType="varchar2" source="QUERYNAME">
<element name="EMPNO" dataType="varchar2" value="EMPNO"/>
<element name="ENAME" dataType="varchar2" value="ENAME"/>
<element name="JOB" dataType="varchar2" value="JOB"/>
</group>
</dataStructure>
</dataTemplate>
Now I opened a ms word document :
1)added a table with 3 columns and 2 rows
2) added the below column headings with their subsequent tags in row 1 and 2 respectively for the table ?
EMPNO ENAME JOB
<?for-each:G_UPPERGROUP?> <?ENAME?> <?JOB?>
<?EMPNO?> <?end for-each?>
is my code correct ?
ta
s

Phone Numbers in BI Publisher report woes

Hi,
I am having the following issue in BI Publisher reports, with phone numbers.
Essentially what happens is that BI Publisher displays the phone number with a string of zeros after it (which is in fact the value stored in the Siebel database).
I wondered if there is a way round this problem?
I'll include some information below about how Siebel handles phone numbers.
How Siebel Handles Phone Numbers:
1) There is List of Values with Type PHONE_FORMAT.
Inside the LOV's is a string of zeros (0) a different number/with/without spaces/ etc defined for each country.
The 'Order' column of the LOV contains the country code.
Next, there is two different scenarios about what will happen to the phone numbers you enter in Siebel:
1) You enter the phone number EXACTLY as specified in the PHONE_FORMAT LOV.
Result:
UI Display:
In the Siebel UI the phone number will be displayed correctly.
For the Object Manager you entered it in, the country code would be trimmed off the front if you entered it.
For other Object Managers, the phone number would be displayed e.g. with +44 before.
Database Level:
The phone number is stored WITHOUT additional zeros after.
BIP report based on the field:
THe BIP report always displays the database value (in this case without zeros).
2) You enter the phone number DIFFERENTLY to as specified in PHONE_FORMAT LOV.
Result:
UI Display:
In the Siebel UI the phone number will be displayed correctly.
For the Object Manager you entered it in, the country code would be trimmed off the front if you entered it.
For other Object Managers, the phone number would be displayed e.g. with +44 before.
Database Level:
The phone number is stored WITH additional zeros after (I guess they represent the formatting in some way).
BIP report based on the field:
The BIP report always displays the database value (in this case with the zeros).
Finally, just to say we work across the whole of Europe, Middle East and Africa which includes a great many different countries.
Each of these countries can have different length phone numbers, and there may be cases were a country has more than 1 number of digits in a phone number.
(So trimming the number is not very helpful)
Does anyone have any experience of getting BI Publisher to display phone numbers 'correctly' or 'how they are displayed in the Siebel UI?'
Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

Please post the details of the application release, database version and OS along with BI Publisher.
Is the issue with all reports or specific one(s) only?
Do you have the patches in the following docs applied?
Overview of Available Update Patches for Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 10g [ID 797057.1]
Overview of Available Update Patches for Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 11g [ID 1276869.1]
Overview of Available Patches for Oracle XML Publisher embedded in the Oracle E-Business Suite [ID 1138602.1]
BI Publisher 10g RTF Template Changes Alignment Settings for Numbered Lists [ID 1418504.1]
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Printing BI Publisher report from OAF Page WITHOUT Preview or Save Option

I have a requirement to print a BI Publisher Report on the invoke of a Button from a OAF Page. I have followed the method suggested in the below link to integrate OAF and BI Publisher.-
http://apps2fusion.com/at/51-ps/260-integrating-xml-publisher-and-oa-framework
In this scenario, I already developed Data Definition (XML) and Template (RTF) for the report and a self service page with 'Generate PDF' button. When the button is clicked the template is getting filled with the data from the database and displaying the PDF output. A dialog box with 'Open/Save/Cancel' appears before the PDF document is shown.
But my requirement is to avoid this dialog box and Save option so when the button is clicked the document has to be directly sent to the printer.
Is there anyway to achieve this? Please help as this is very urgent..
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Naren

Naveen,
You need to read the documentation here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-publisher/documentation/xmlpdocs-084437.html
All of the information you need is in these:
Administration and Developer's Guide
Report Designer's Guide
JavaDocs
With the BI publisher (XML publisher) Java APIs, you can call a data template with parameters and get the XML from that.
For an example that should be very close to what you need to do, see the comments section of this page:
http://apps2fusion.com/at/ps/294-bi-publisher-document-viewer-common-region-embeded-report-output-in-oa-framework-page-part-2
Find the comment titled: "Alternative: BlobDomain from data template"
The great thing about using a Data Template is that, while you are NOT concurrent program dependent, you can still set up a concurrent program to run it for other purposes if you wish. Data Templates offer a lot more flexibility.
Kurz

BI Publisher Report can only seen when logged in as Admin

Hi gurus,
We have OBIEE is set up on Windows 2003 server and configured to use Active Directory (AD) authentication. In one of the dashboards, we have a BI Publisher Report embedded. This was working fine until we configured the BI Server to use AD.
After the AD config, when logged in any user other than Administrator, the BI Publisher reprot throws up the error " Login Failed. Please contact Administrator for Username & Password".
All the required roles have been created on BI Server and granted to the requird users. I am at loss with this error.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Regards
Mahesh

Did you create an Open Firmware password as well? If not then just insert the OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive and restart the computer. After the chime press and hold down the 'C' key until the spinning gear appears below the dark gray Apple logo.

Different scenario to run Former XML Publisher report

Hi All.
I have some different kind of scenario to run the XML Publisher report. Please look into the following scenario and requirements:
In my current project we are implementing 22 languages like Chinese, Japanese, Spanish etc. Out of these 22 languages, 8 languages will be installed and 14 will be uninstalled. We are defining the language on 2 places: OU level and Address level. For those reports that need to be translated, we are using XML Publisher to achieve this, but we have different scenario to pass the language, in order to select the corresponding template.
Scenario: As i mentioned we are defining the languages on address level, it is considered that the language defined at the address level will be customer's preferred language and he would like to see the output in that language only. there are 2 possible conditions while running the report: 1. User may select the language in which he want the report to be displayed in. 2. User may not select any language. The 1st scenario can be fulfilled by standard functionality. but in case of second scenario when user does not select any language then we need to display the report in language defined on address level for that customer. For Ex: if the Invoice report is running for 4 invoices and have 2 different customers and their preferred language is different, suppose for 1 customer it is Chinese and for another one it is Japanese. Then we need to display the output in customer's preferred language only i.e for Japanese customer it should be in Japanese and for Chinese customer it should be in Chinese i.e 2 different templates will be applicable.
So as per this while submitting the concurrent request we need to check whether user has selected the language or not? And after making all the conditions check we will have to submit the xml publisher report using API. Do you have any suggestion how can we achieve this task?
Please suggest.
Thanks,
AS

Hi AS,
How about using a conc prog parameter for User selected language, and XML element data at customer level, then call a subtemplate (or multiple embedded regions in the same template) in the required language based on if or case logic in the template.
Regards,
Gareth

OAF page with XML Publisher report

Hi All,
I am trying to create a OAF page with an XML Publisher report. I am not able to create a 'defaultSingleColumn' region which extends '/oracle/apps/xdo/oa/common/webui/DocumentViewerRn.MainRegion', getting a Confirm message and Validation error and they are:
Confirm message:
Component "/oracle/apps/xdo/12.0.0/mds/oa/common/webui/DocumentViewerRn.MainRegion" cannot be referenced from
"/xx/oracle/apps/xxbsk/payslip/webui/PaySlipViewPG.region1" because it violates scope restrictions.
Are you sure you want to use component "/oracle/apps/xdo/12.0.0/mds/oa/common/webui/DocumentViewerRn.MainRegion"?
Validation Error:
The value "oracle/apps/xdo/12.0.0/mds/oa/common/webui/DocumentViewerRn.MainRegion"
set on the "Extends" property for component
"/xx/oracle/apps/xxbsk/payslip/webui/PaySlipViewPG" contains multiple naming separators.
I am trying to develop this page for R12.1.3 and using correct version of JDev (Patch 9879989).
I am following the below link for embedding the XML PO into my page:
http://oracle-hack.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/launching-xml-publisher-from-oa.html
Could you please help why I am getting error while extending region.
Thank you,
Ramu

Hi. Could you please tell me how did you make it work. I read and try the same document at ttp://oracle-hack.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/launching-xml-publisher-from-oa.html
But I got null point exception at one of xdo package which is Oracles own class. I think something is wrong or forgotten in this document.
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Printing BI Publisher report from OAF Page

We have a requirement to display a BI Publisher Report on the invoke of a Button/Link from a OAF Page. One way to achieve this without invoking a concurrent program is by following the method described in the link below :-
http://apps2fusion.com/at/51-ps/260-integrating-xml-publisher-and-oa-framework
In the current scenario, we already have developed Data Definition (XML) and Template (RTF) for the report and is used too. We want to use the same Data Definition and Template but invoke from a OAF Page. Is there a way to achieve this?
In the method mentioned in the above link, we would have to create many VO's to generate the XML, since the XML needed in our case is a detailed one, we would need to create many VO's to achieve this. Hence looking out for a way in which we can invoke the Data Definition (XML) already registered in the BI Publisher.
Any inputs to achieve this would be helpful.
Regards
Naveen

Naveen,
You need to read the documentation here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-publisher/documentation/xmlpdocs-084437.html
All of the information you need is in these:
Administration and Developer's Guide
Report Designer's Guide
JavaDocs
With the BI publisher (XML publisher) Java APIs, you can call a data template with parameters and get the XML from that.
For an example that should be very close to what you need to do, see the comments section of this page:
http://apps2fusion.com/at/ps/294-bi-publisher-document-viewer-common-region-embeded-report-output-in-oa-framework-page-part-2
Find the comment titled: "Alternative: BlobDomain from data template"
The great thing about using a Data Template is that, while you are NOT concurrent program dependent, you can still set up a concurrent program to run it for other purposes if you wish. Data Templates offer a lot more flexibility.
Kurz

In BI Publisher Report of excel output for one column is filled with spaces

Hello,
We have issue in BI Publisher report of excel output.
In Excel output for one column few records are displaying as left alignment
and few record are displaying as right alignment.
If you are having any xml tag or any syntax for removing spaces for left side
Please help on this issue.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Swaraj

Please post the details of the application release, database version and OS along with BI Publisher.
Is the issue with all reports or specific one(s) only?
Do you have the patches in the following docs applied?
Overview of Available Update Patches for Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 10g [ID 797057.1]
Overview of Available Update Patches for Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 11g [ID 1276869.1]
Overview of Available Patches for Oracle XML Publisher embedded in the Oracle E-Business Suite [ID 1138602.1]
BI Publisher 10g RTF Template Changes Alignment Settings for Numbered Lists [ID 1418504.1]
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How to avoid blank page in xml publisher report

hi,
i have a xml report, it shows 7 rows in one page. the question is: if there are just 7 rows , when previews with pdf, it will generate 2 pages, the first page shows 7 rows, and the second page is blank.
anyone can help?
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I am running a report in xml publisher. The output of the report prints 2
pages, one page with correct report output and other page is a blank page
with header details.
I want to avoid this blank page. Is there something wrong? Please help to fix this issue!Is the issue with this specific XML Publisher report only?
Do you have all the patches in (Overview of Available Patches for Oracle XML Publisher embedded in the Oracle E-Business Suite [ID 1138602.1]) applied? -- Search for "blank page".
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BI Publisher report in OBIEE Dashboard

Hi,
I have a BI Publisher report that consists of:
-SQL Based Report
-Has 2 date parameters
This report is independent of any data source OBIEE, ie there is no repository for the data shown in the BI Publisher report.
I need to show this report in OBIEE dashboard with parameters. The report should get a parameter from a prompt / dynamic var.
I have understood according, there are two methods for achieving this:
1. Create a BI Publisher Report using BI Answers report as the data source wherein the BI Answers report would have one of the column’s filter clause as “is prompted”.
2. Create a BI Publisher Report using BI Answers/Database as data source. Create a parameter for the BI Publisher report and then match this parameter name while assigning the presentation variable for the dashboard prompt.
But I can not implement this, because my BI Publisher report is independent of any data source OBIEE.
There a way to solve this?
Thanks in advance!

When you create the parameter in Report, and embed that in BIPublisher report section, it will display the parameter in the embedded content itself.
see, if you can make use of this.

Large export file when application contains a BI Publisher report

Anyone have an idea why an application export file grows dramatically when a BI Publisher report template is added to an application? I have an application that was 400+ KB and went to 88+ MB just by adding one report query and RTF template. This results in taking over an hour to import the application.

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