Mail-merging from Oracle HRMS - Web ADI vs BI Publisher

Hi
I'm currently involved in a project to automate the production of candidate offer letters and contracts from HRMS for our shared HR service centre. The solution I've built to date uses custom database tables and PL/SQL to select the relevant text for the candidate based on a set of criteria, and views to supply the necessary data to Web ADI which then performs the actual merge into a template Microsoft Word document on demand from the end-user.
The issue we're facing is that the Web ADI to Word interface can't handle more than 64 merge fields (Word basically throws up an error saying the maximum number of fields has been exceeded) so I'm looking at alternatives which will still provide the same (or nearly the same) functionality in terms of mail-merging. From the looks of things it seems like BI Publisher could be a potential alternative; I do however have a few questions which I hope someone can answer!
1) How easily can BI Publisher be integrated with HRMS to provide such mail-merge functionality on demand? How would such integration be achieved e.g. concurrent program, button on the toolbar in HRMS?
2) How many merge fields can BI Publisher handle? Our largest letter has nearly 100 unique fields, a number which could go up or down over time.
3) I understand from looking at some of the tutorials and demos that an RTF template could be used as the basis for the mail merge - where would this be stored, on the database or the file system?
4) Are there any case studies out there which cover such an implementation of BI Publisher? This would be really useful as it would help in formulating a recommendation to my project manager!
Many thanks
Geoff Butler

metalray wrote:
Well, glad you got soemthing. Now I try to be more "properly" for you :)
Good that you are trying.
The LDAP users do not show up in my Web Logic console. Is a functionality available to allocate the LDAP users to Oracle user groups in web logic or do I expect too much?LDAP = what in your case, do you mean Active Directory .? or any other LDAP directory .?
You need to configure that in weblogic as one of the authentication providers if you have not done so yet, otherwise they cannot magically appear in WLS console.
So I am assuming you are expecting too much if you have not configured and trying to look for LDAP users. Let us know if you have already configured one but having trouble managing these users.
If the functionality (allocating LDAP users to groups) exists in the oracle web logic console,Even though you configure LDAP users in WLS , you cannot assign LDAP users to LDAP groups in WLS since you have to do that in your LDAP not in WLS.
why does this functionality also in the Oracle BI Publisher Admin screen?Oracle BI Publisher security is managed by Fusion middleware security model not Weblogic , so to get the LDAP users to BIP you need to integrate OBIEE security to BI Publisher.
Hope this helps. ! Mark if it does.
Thanks,
SVS

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