Need Help !!! New Bee !!!

Question

Hi All,
Im a brand newbee to BI publisher. I have a requirement of customizing "Contract Terms Layout" . I downloaded the .xsl(OKCTERMS_en.xsl) file from xml publisher responsibility.
My understanding is that .xsl could be edited by BI publisher. But when i try to open the .xsl file, its only xsl code, i donot see the template format i would see in a rtf file.
I would like to know how can i convert the .xsl to template file so as to make changes.
Or is there any other way to edit the template.

Answer 1

Not sure exactly what you are asking here but here goes:
Anytime a contract PA is approved there is the option to email print or fax, if selected these cause the XML to be generated and the relevent communication (PDF) is generated from that XML. The PDF is stored in the database against that PA. You don't get to see the XML unless you turn on debugging as follows:
Enabling XML Publisher Debug Logging
The information here is taken from important Note 364547.1 Troubleshooting Oracle XML Publisher for Oracle Applications 11i; however, is briefly given again for use by Procurement System Administrators. Depending how the PO report is being generated (using concurrent manager or not) use the following steps to generate the XML Publisher Engine log output to analyze the problem in more depth.
i) For Online Report Generation (Note: this is also the only way to get the PO XML data file, as it is only stored as a temporary file).
Connect to iAS/Apache server as applmgr
Create directory $XDO_TOP/temp for log storage
Go to $OA_JRE_TOP/jre/lib/ and create file xdodebug.cfg with the following two lines:
LogLevel=STATEMENT
LogDir=[Full path of XDO_TOP]/temp
Restart iAS/Apache
Reproduce the issue
In $XDO_TOP/temp directory, the following files should now be available:
xdo.log = XML Publisher Engine log
[filename] .xsl = XSL-FO template files used
[filename].xml = data files used
[filename].fo = temporary file from FO engine
[filename].out = output file (not shown if is complete failure)
You can also run PO Output for Communication to print your PA. You can create a custom template, load it up and link it to the data definition, you have seen, to allow you to print your own customised PA. There is also some Purchasing setup required to link the custom template to the document type for the PA.
Check out the other purchasing threads on this forum for other good info to help you with this. Both Standard PO document and Contract PA are developed along similar lines although XML can vary slightly.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Dave