Need help with customizing standard reports in Fusion Applications

Question

Hi,
   I have requirement to customize 'Asset Transfer Report' in Oracle Fusion.
   This report is a BI Publisher report and Data Model lies in folder '/Share Folders/Financials/Fixed Assets/Tracking/Data Model' and report lies in folder '/Share Folders/Financials/Fixed Assets/Tracking'.
    Steps which i have completed
   I am trying to customize this report, i followed the below steps
Step 1:- 
   Copied Data Model into '/Shared Folder/Custom/Financials/Fixed Assets/Tracking/Data Model' and report into '/Shared Folder/Custom/Financials/Fixed Assets/Tracking/'
Step 2:-
   Opened task 'Manage Custom Enterprise Scheduler Jobs for Ledger and Related Applications' and created a job with the following details.
Job Definition
Field Name
Value
Display Name
XX Asset Transfers Report
Name
XX_ASSET_TRANSFERS_REPORT
Path
/FA/
Application
Financials Common Module
Description
XX Asset Transfers Report
Job Application Name
FinancialsEss
Enable Submission from Enterprise Manager
Job Type
BIPJobType
Class Name
oracle.xdo.service.client.scheduler.BIPJobExecutable
Default Output Format
Report ID
/Custom/Financials/Fixed Assets/Tracking/Asset Transfers Report.xdo
Priority
Allow Multiple Pending Submissions
False
Enable Submission From Scheduled Processes
Yes
User Properties
Field Name
Value
PDF
.*\.pdf$
jobDefinitionName
FAS430
XML
.*\.xml$
jobPackageName
/oracle/apps/ess/financials/assets/tracking/transfers
EXT_PortletContainerWebModule
Ledger
Since the standard report has the below parameter i have created same set of parameters for the Job which i have created, but i do not know how to assign the list of values to these parameters
Parameter Prompt
Data Type
Page Element
Default Value
Required
Book
String
Text box
Yes
Currency
String
Text box
Yes
Period
String
Text box
Yes
Batch
String
Text box
No
Step 4:-
   Now when i navigate to schedule process, when i click Schedule New Process Button in the list of values i can see the job which i created. When i submit the job is completing with error.
   When i open the xml file, file is blank and no data is available in the file.
   When i open the log file i see the below error
dummy file is deleted
================ BIPJobExecutable Execution Started ============
OutputFile : /u01/APPLTOP/instance/ess/rfd/67068/out/67068.xml
Request ID: 67068 ClassLoader is weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader@1c85c3a finder: weblogic.utils.classloaders.CodeGenClassFinder@1c85cb3 annotation: FinancialsEssApp#V2.0@
RequestId:67068
ReportID : /Custom/Financials/Fixed Assets/Tracking/FLY FA Transfers Report.xdo
Process : BIPDocGen
The bipJobID : 6252
bipJobID is updated to ESSRuntimeService
BIP_STATUS_URL is added to ESSRuntimeService
================ BIPJobExecutable is running in async mode. ============
================ Please check the ess status for more detail info. ============
    Am i doing anything wrong while creating the job?
Note :- I created another test data model and report with 'Select SYSDATE from dual' and am able to see the report completing successfully.
Please kindly help, i am failing to meet my deadlines.
Regards,
Prasad R

Answer 1

Hello Jani Rautiainen,
    Thanks a lot for replying my question.
    This is the first time i am working with the BI Publisher reports and fusion applications.
    My requirement is to add few columns to the standard report with out loosing the functionality.
    I was not aware that there is two ways of doing this, i was always copying data model and report to a new folder and trying to create a new job for the report.
    As mentioned in the document 7.2.1.4 Using the Customize Feature    , i clicked on the more button on my report but i do not see the customize option. Do i need to have any specific role for this to appear in the menu? Please kindly let me know.
    Also i see below limitations while customizing report
Limitations
Following are limitations of the Customize report option:
The Customize option is only available through direct access to the BI Publisher server using the /xmlpserver URL (for example:http://hostname.com:7001/xmlpserver). The Customize option is not available through the /analytics URL used to access Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
The Customize option is available only for reports. The Customize option is not available for data models, style templates, or sub templates.To customize data models, style templates or sub templates and insulate them from potential changes from patching: Make a copy of the data model, style template, or sub-template and either rename it or place it in a custom folder. Ensure that you update any reports to point to the customized data model, style template, or sub template.
    My requirement is to add few additional columns which needs Data Model to be modified, Can i copy the data model to the custom folder and do my modifications and point this data model in the report(as mentioned in the point 2 in the limitations)? In that case, will the original report submission works?
Regards,
Prasad R