Integrating Oracle BPM UI with Oracle BI Publisher as reporting tool.

Question

          We are using WebCenter Content 11.1.1.6.0 (Ps5) version with Oracle BPM for the workflows.
Is it possible to integrate Oracle BI Publisher to print reports from Oracle BPM User Interface (UI) ?    Basically user should be able to generate a *.pdf file with approved data after the final approval.
What are the Tables that stores Oracle BPM field Values?
Thanks ..

Answer 1

Hi,
Let me share the basic steps. You can always dump the view data into an XML file by using writeXML method.
e.g.
You need to place BIP jars into BPM domain_home/lib dir.
MASTER_QUERY="select * from employees where employee_id=:0";
ViewObject master = createViewObjectFromQueryStmt(null, MASTER_QUERY);
master.setWhereClauseParam(0, employee_id);
Row firstRow = master.first();
Node data = master.writeXML(-1, XMLInterface.XML_OPT_ALL_ROWS);
then you can call the following method to generate pdf based on your template.
  resource = "C:\\app\\stage\\templates\\YourBIPTemplate.rtf";
    private File generatePDF(Node data, String resource) {
        File ApplicationDataFile = null;
        File tmpTemplateFile = null;
        File pdf = null;
        OutputStream output = null;
        InputStream is =
            Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resource);
        try {
            Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
            SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddHHmm");
            int uid =
                (new oracle.jbo.server.SequenceImpl("DDOCNAME_SEQ", this.getDBTransaction())).getSequenceNumber().intValue();
            pdf =
new File(tmpDir + File.separator  + docType + uid + ".pdf");
            pdf.createNewFile();
            output = new FileOutputStream(pdf);
            output = new BufferedOutputStream(output);
            ApplicationDataFile =
                    new File("C:\\Temp\\ApplicationData"  +
                             ".xml");
            try {
                Writer sWriter =
                    new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(ApplicationDataFile),
                                                              "UTF-8"));
                ((XMLNode)data).print(sWriter);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            byte[] sXML = null;
            StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(ApplicationDataFile);
            InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, "UTF8");
            Reader in = new BufferedReader(isr);
            int ch;
            while ((ch = in.read()) > -1) {
                buffer.append((char)ch);
            in.close();
            sXML = buffer.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
            InputStream rtfInputStream = new FileInputStream(resource);
            RTFProcessor rtfProcessor = new RTFProcessor(rtfInputStream);
            tmpTemplateFile =
                    File.createTempFile("ApplicationTemplate", ".tmp");
            rtfProcessor.setOutput(tmpTemplateFile.getAbsolutePath());
            System.out.println("Temp file is created: " +
                               tmpTemplateFile.getAbsolutePath().toString());
            rtfProcessor.process();
            FOProcessor processor = new FOProcessor();
            processor.setData(new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(sXML));
            processor.setTemplate(tmpTemplateFile.getAbsolutePath());
            processor.setOutput(output);
            processor.setOutputFormat(FOProcessor.FORMAT_PDF);
            processor.generate();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            System.out.println("Finished generating application PDF");
        return pdf;