Embedding a document in BI Publisher template

Question

I have created a BIP template and I have a requirement to include attachments in the template. These attachments (PDF format) are located in a different server and are supplied as URLs. So basically I need to display the documents embeded from URL into the BI Publisher report. I have managed to get it to work with Images (jpg, gif, png) by inserting a dummy image in the report and including this line of code in the Alt Text: url:{'http://www.test.com/photo1.jpg'}. However this method does not work with documents.
I tried the following methods but they only work with images. They don't work with documents, i.e. pdf, doc, txt, etc:
Method 1:
<fo:external-graphic src="url('http://www.test.jsp?id=121342')"/>
Method 2:
<fo:instream-foreign-object content-type="application/pdf">
<xsl:value-of select="http://www.test.jsp?id=121342"/>
</fo:instream-foreign-object>
I read something online about another method <fox:external-document content-type="pdf" src="url('http://www.test.jsp?id=121342')"/>. But I am not sure how to set this up in BI Publisher, because when I tried to use this method, BI Publisher was throwing an error saying forx:external-document not recognised.
Does anyone know if there is a way of embeding documents read from URL in BI Publisher report?
Many thanks,
Agron

Answer 1

Insert a table with 3 columns and 2 rows..
split the (2,2) cell into 3 rows and (2,3) cell into 3 rows..
table cell (1,1)<?horizontal-break-table:1?>
(1,2)Sales
(1,3)<?for-each-group@column:SALE;./YEAR?><?YEAR?><?end for-each-group?>
(2,1)<?for-each-group:SALE;./REGION?><?variable@incontext:G1;current-group()?><?REGION?>
(2,2) 1st row Software
        2nd row Hardware
        3rd row Services
(2,3) 1st row<?for-each-group@cell://SALE;./YEAR?><?sum ($G1[(./YEAR=current()/YEAR)]/SOFTWARE)?><?end for-each-group?>
2st row<?for-each-group@cell://SALE;./YEAR?><?sum ($G1[(./YEAR=current()/YEAR)]/HARDWARE)?><?end for-each-group?>
3rd row<?for-each-group@cell://SALE;./YEAR?><?sum ($G1[(./YEAR=current()/YEAR)]/SERVICES)?><?end for-each-group?><?end for-each-group?>the xml file I used was mentioned in tim's blog in the previous reply of mine...I tried it and I got the desired o/p..
Edited by: user10280715 on Apr 8, 2009 8:58 AM