Integration of BI Publisher with Oracle APEX

I have developed a small application in Oracle APEX. I want to integrate BI Publisher with that APEX app for my reporting needs. What are the essential steps.

FYI: This article is up - http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/06/06#a209
I look forward to the continuation of this series of posts - we are having troubles with some more advanced stuff!

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Hi,
We bought Anychart license. When I logged into AnyAchrt there are .zip, .exe and .swf file can be downloaded.
Please let me know which file from any chart that I need use to integrate with Apex 4.x version.
Also please let me know step by step process to see final effect of any chart in oracle apex.
Regards.
Meda

Hi Meda,
AnyChart has been integrated with Oracle Application Express since our 3.0 release. With our latest release, 4.2.1, we have integrated the latest AnyChart 6 release, version 6.0.11, which supports the creation of Flash and HTML5 charts in your APEX applications. Only chart types exposed via the Create wizards in Application Builder can be created using the version of AnyChart that is shipped with APEX. If you wish to create other chart types that aren't available in the Create wizards, then you would need to use your own AnyChart files. I assume the reason you have purchased a separate AnyChart license in is order to create other chart types that we don't license. How you choose to integrate those libraries into your release is up to you. You might find it useful to refer to AnyChart's online documentation for further information on installation: http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-guide/Installation.html?fromtree.
What chart types does your license with AnyChart cover? There's no need to provide an exhaustive list, but I'm just trying to establish whether your license covers all the chart types that our license already covers. The AnyChart files that are shipped with APEX are used by the Create wizards, Interactive Report charts and internal application chart pages. The related files are contained in the +/images/flashchart/anychart_6+ folder of your APEX install. Your easiest option for integrating your AnyChart files is to overwrite the files that are shipped with the product. ** However, please be aware of the possible impacts of doing this. **
*1)* As I've already mentioned, those files are used not only by the Create wizards, but also Interactive Report charts and chart pages within Application Builder, etc. So if your license does not cover the same chart types and options as those shipped with APEX, then you will experience issues using the Create Chart wizards, Interactive Report charts and chart pages in your instance.
*2)* If you do choose to overwrite the files shipped with APEX, then you are essentially modifying the APEX install and will need to interact with AnyChart regarding any issues you experience with the chart files you have licensed.
*3)* The Create wizards in APEX only expose the chart types covered by our license agreement with AnyChart, so even if your licensed files support additional chart types, they will not be exposed via the Create wizards, and those wizards could not be used to create additional chart types.
You could, of course, choose to retain the chart files incorporated in your APEX instance, and simply add your own AnyChart files to the +/images+ folder of your APEX instance and then directly reference the files in your code to embed a chart on a page in your application. For an example, take a look at the AnyChart online User's Guide, specifically "Your First Chart" - http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-guide/SimpleChart.html?fromtree - NOTE: in the sample code on that page, the paths to the AnyChart files have not been fully qualified e.g. './swf/AnyChart.swf'. You would need to ensure that you fully qualify the path to your files.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Hilary

Integrating Oracle BI Publisher with Oracle Single Sign-on security.

I am trying to integrate BI Publisher with Oracle Single Sign-on running on a different machine.
The BI Publisher is installed with an Oracle application server 10.3.1 (includes a HTTP server). These are the steps I followed:
1) Registered BI publisher as a partner application in the Oracle SSO admin console which generated a single sign-off url.
2) Made the required modifications in the mod_osso.xml config file.
3) On the BI publisher admin page went to the securities tab and opted the SSO security and entered the single sign-off url generated in the previous step.
4) Restarted the Oracle ID mgt infrastructure and the BI pub server.
The BI pub login is not getting redirected to the SSO page.
Please let me know as what is that I am missing. I've been cracking my head with this for quite long - any help will be highly appreciated.

"user589320"
APEX is only using BI Publisher to transform the XML data of your report and the template you provide into PDF, Word or Excel. For this, APEX sends the XML data and the template to BI Publisher, and BI Publisher sends back to completed document. So there's nothing stored in BI Publisher, all templates, report definitions, etc are stored in the APEX schema. This has the advantage that you can reference item values and other information in your print documents, and it also ensures that you don't have to access the database again from within BI Publisher, i.e. you don't need to communicate any authentication information to BI Publisher.
Of course BI Publisher itself also provide the ability to store reports and to store templates. But those are not accessible from APEX through the built-in integration. You can however use the same templates you use for BI Publisher directly on load them into APEX for use there.
Lastly, if you want to use and print reports in both BI Publisher and your APEX applications, you can do that through web services, take a look at Tyler Muth's BLOG for more information on this topic:
http://tylermuth.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/call-bi-publisher-web-services-from-apex/
Regards,
Marc

Integration of Oracle BI Publisher with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterp

Hi,
I have started the tutorial " Integration of Oracle BI Publisher with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterp" today but got stuck at the very first step.
The tutorial shows that I can see "SH" and "CountryManagers" in the shared folder but I only see the Paint Demo rpd.
I previously completed the "Creating a Repository Using the Oracle Business Intelligence Administration Tool " tutorial.
Do I need to learn anything prior to this tutorial .
I already have the default rpd as SH in NQSConfig.ini
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Nico,
That didnt help.
I already have the
Star = SH.rpd, default; set
I have tried restarting OC4J and Oracle BI Server.
Is there someplace where we need to put the rpd so that it appears in the shared folders.
Even if the Paint Demo rpd is seen, when I try to view the reports I get the following errors:
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Error Details
Error Codes: OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P:OI2DL65P
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 27004] Unresolved table: "Paint". (HY000)
SQL Issued: {call NQSGetQueryColumnInfo('SELECT "Sales Measures"."% Chg Year Ago Dollars", "Sales Measures"."Chg Year Ago Dollars", "Sales Measures"."Year Ago Dollars", "Sales Measures".Dollars, Markets.Market, Markets.Region, Periods."Year", Products.Brand, Products.UPC FROM Paint')}
SQL Issued: SELECT "Sales Measures"."% Chg Year Ago Dollars", "Sales Measures"."Chg Year Ago Dollars", "Sales Measures"."Year Ago Dollars", "Sales Measures".Dollars, Markets.Market, Markets.Region, Periods."Year", Products.Brand, Products.UPC FROM Paint
Hope this helps.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Regd Integration of Domino.doc with Oracle 9i AS Portal

I want to know whether the integration of domino.doc with oracle 9i as portal
is possible or not.
Can anyone guide me whether the integration is
possible or not and if it is possible which document
should i refer for the same.
and i dont know much about domino.doc
pls consider this as urgent
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Rajesh Kanna.V

1)Portal is an integrated component of 9iAS. You need to download all of 9iAS and select the minimal install option.
2)We haven't tested this configuration, but as long as you set up apache appropriately to use different ports than the existing software it should work.
3)Portal requires 8.1.6.2 Enterprise edition or 8.1.7 Standard edition. Personal Edition will not work.

Oracle Timesten with oracle apex

I use Oracle 11gr2 and apex 4.2.4 how can i use oracle timesten with oracle apex?
I want to use timesten to improve performance on report by adding two tables to oracle timsten.

As far as I am aware, recent (11g onwards) releases of Oracle Heterogenous services do not work with TimesTen as they now require an OBC 3.x driver and the TimesTen driver is currently 2.0. Even if they did work, this would not be a useful solution. It might allow Apex to access TimesTen after a fashion (though that is far from certain) but the performance would be very poor due to all the network hops and software layers between the application and TimesTen.
If you put one or two tables in TimesTen then one problem from an Apex perspective is that it is now dealing with two databases; the TimesTen cache containing two tables and the oracle database containing all the other tables. Is Apex designed to cope with this? Does it have the concept of data located in multiple databases where one of them is not the Oracle database? Also, do you need transactions or queries (joins) that span the TimesTen tables and the tables in Oracle DB? If so then this also will not work as that is not possible today.
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Looking for integration details of Kewill with Oracle Shipping execution

Hello Folks,
Has anyone done integration of Kewill (flagship) with Oracle Shipping 11i. Customer has plans to implement OTM later.
please provide me some details or documentation.
regards
girish
Edited by: 849679 on Apr 6, 2011 8:25 AM
Edited by: 849679 on Apr 6, 2011 9:02 AM

Pl do not post duplicate threads - Looking for documentation of Kewill Integration with Oracle Shipping
Srini

Facebook login integration with Oracle Apex

Hello,
Wondering if anyone has had success in implementing facebook login for Oracle Apex. I walked through facebook developer docs and I am able to see through the test api that I am connected to facebook in my apex app, but not sure how to redirect through login using facebook credentials. If someone could give me some examples that would be great.

You could look at this plugin: - Authentication Plugin - Facebook Authentication Plugin if you are on atleast APEX 4.x... Otherwise you will have your work cut out for yourself..
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Integration of BI publisher with E-Business Suite

Gurus
Can you please tell me the steps to integrate Bi Publisher with E-business Suite
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Nitin

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/xml-publisher/docs/XMLEBSRep.pdf

Integration of BI Publisher with presentation services

Hello,
I have installed and configured OBI Answers and Publisher in a Linux infrastructure and configured thro' Websphere/IHS. Answers/Dashboards is working fine. I am trying to integrate BI publisher with OBI answers/dashboards. This is working fine through OC4J but when I try to integrate through Websphere, I get a crypto error.
I have to deployed a plug-in in web server and tried to integrate BI publisher with presentation services through "cryptotools" and configuring it through instance config. When I hit http://myserver:port/xmlpserver I get "Error 500: com.phaos.crypto.CipherException ". Similarly when I select more products/BI Publisher through OBI Dashboards/Answers, I get the following
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Help is greatly appreciated.
thx
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I'm installing 10.1.3.4 and YES, i have installed BIP war in Websphere.
I think I may have resolved my original problem but faced with a different one now. I am able to logon to BI publisher standalone and integrated with OBI Answers (thro websphere). But when i click the dashboards link from BI Publisher, its going to the default OC4J installation and not my websphere. The similar re-direction works fine from OBI - Publisher but not from Publisher - OBI.
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Digital Certificates and Web Services with Oracle APEX

Hi people,
I am working to implement Web Service communication using Oracle Apex. I need to create an application that calls an external public Web Service in Apex. So far, so good, and i am able to work with a public WS without any problems.
However, this particular WS I'm calling has two peculiarities:
1) It is SSL-Secured (HTTPS). This means i have to communicate using SSL and Public/Private Certificates.
2) The message i pass (payload) must be digitally signed using XMLDsig Standard (www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/)
The first requirement i am still testing, but it will probably work if i import the public and private keys using Oracle Wallet and point to this Wallet, just as PayPal sample in OTN samples does, don't you think? Should i have any problems with this?
The second one is more complicated, all APIs i have seen for XML Digital Signing are Java-based or .NET-based, i have found nothing based in PL/SQL packages or such. Can you point me some other options to sign this XML?
Please bear in mind that, since the WS has more than one method, i am using plain old UTL_HTTP to call it (just like the PayPal sample in OTN). PayPal requests that all communication be SSL-enabled, but has no mention whatsoever for Digital Signatures.
Can anybody help me out with this? any help is highly appreciated.
Regards
Thiago

Thiago:
You are correct in that there should be no problem interacting with a Web service that has an HTTPS endpoint as long as you create a wallet and specify it when you make your UTL_HTTP calls, like the PayPal example.
I am not aware of a PL/SQL utility to create a XMLDsig Standard message, but if you find some Java source out there that does it, you may be able to follow a technique I used for a similar use case:
http://jastraub.blogspot.com/2009/07/hmacsha256-in-plsql.html
Regards,
Jason

Integrating MS BizTalk Server with Oracle Financial

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Cache and Load Balancing with Oracle APEX Listener

Hi,
I intend to use only HTTP access.
How to implement a Cache and Load Balancing with the Oracle APEX Listener?
Is it possible to do with the the standalone running APEX Listener?
Thanks by advance for any tips/documentation/references.
Kind Regards.

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Commercial Application developed with Oracle APEX

Except the commercial application list on the official Oracle APEX web-site, anyone can give more information regarding commercial application developed using Oracle APEX?
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I'm curious - is there a problem with the 15 commercial applications listed at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/apex_com_commercial_apps.html? What are you specifically looking for?
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Trouble with oracle apex and http server

I have Oracle Apex 3.2 running with Oracle OHS 10g... when I load big pages... some pages aren't completely rendered... there are incomplete source code when some pages are generated...
This causes things like the hidden tag that contains the md5 verificator for the page would not generate correctly...
see this [http://img444.imageshack.us/i/error2le.png/]
And it causes repercussion in the DML process:
see this [http://img715.imageshack.us/i/error1d.png/]
Edited by: Juan David Palacios on 09-jun-2010 8:24
Edited by: Juan David Palacios on 09-jun-2010 9:44
Edited by: Juan David Palacios on 10-jun-2010 5:57

This is frequently caused by failing to meet APEX installation and configuration requirements. Ensure the DAD character set is AL32UTF8 and version of the PL/SQL Web Toolkit >= 10.1.2.0.6.
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14373_01/install.32/e13366/db_install.htm#HTMIG236
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14373_01/install.32/e13366/pre_require.htm#BABGBJJD

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