Emulating Oracle Applications Environment in BI Publisher Enterprise Server

Question

Hi there,
I think I know what the answer is going to be to this post but for reasons outwith my control I'm trying to understand if there is a workaround to achieve the resultant report output I require.
Background
Oracle E-Business on Demand 11.5.10.2
Oracle BI Publisher 10.1.3.2
My client has Oracle E-Biz on Demand but rather than utilising the integrated XML Publisher engine they have gone down the path of installing BI Publisher Standalone Enterprise Server for their report generation.
Now this works to an extent but I am experiencing problems trying to emulate the setting of an Apps context when I run a report so that I can utilise the Apps security within the Stanalone Enterprise Server. Is this even possible?
Example, basing a data model on PO_VENDOR_SITES (multi-org view) returns 0 (zero) rows but basing it on PO_VENDOR_SITES_ALL returns all rows (for all Orgs).
I can hear you all now yelling, "Use the Oracle Applications XML Publisher" version but in this "On Demand" arena that practice hasn't been adopted so i am raising this post in the hope that someone may be able to suggest a workaround or solution.
Actually, no BI Publisher security model has been adopted and all users use the GUEST account to run reports.
All comments and suggestions are appreciated :-)
Kind Regards,
Gary.

Answer 1

Gary, create a data template and call your own db function to initialise these. The beforeReport trigger will fire and set the enviro prior to the query being executed (as in Reports) Something like this below:
<dataTemplate name="BasicQueryDT" description="Simple query data template" defaultPackage="xxbi_setenviro">
     <dataQuery>
          <sqlStatement name="basicQuery">
               <![CDATA[
select max(last_update_date) today from apps.pa_projects_v]]>
          </sqlStatement>
     </dataQuery>
     <dataTrigger name="beforeReport" source="xxbi_setenviro.before_rep"/>
     <dataStructure>
          <group name="G_Main" source="basicQuery">
               <element name="TheDate" value="today"/>
          </group>
     </dataStructure>
</dataTemplate>