Oracle BI Publisher is the reporting tool to author, manage, and deliver all your reports and documents easier and faster than traditional reporting tools. Provides a single, Web-based platform for authoring, managing, and delivering interactive reports, dashboards, and all types of highly formatted documents. View reports online or schedule them and deliver tens of thousands of documents per hour with minimal impact to transactional systems.
Preview
By the end of the course, you will learn to create Oracle XML Publisher RTF templates and data templates. And also be able to deploy and maintain a BI Publisher report in an E-Business Suite instance. Students will also be introduced to Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise.
Learn To:
Understand the underlying X standards
Create and use an RTF template
Create and use Data Templates
Deploy and maintain BI Publisher Reports in an E-Business Suite instance
Administer BI Publisher in an E-Business Suite instance
Understand the basic concepts and uses of Oracle XML Publisher
Course Contents
Day 1
Introduction
Understand course agenda
Understand the basics of Oracle BI Publisher
Oracle BI Publisher Architecture
Describe the components of Oracle BI Publisher
Describe the architecture of Oracle BI Publisher
Describe the technology of Oracle BI Publisher
Introduction to XML
Describe the X Standards
Understand XML, XML Schema, DTDs, and XSL
Day 2
Introduction to BI Publisher Layout Templates Using the Basic Method
Create a Template using the Basic Method
Installing BI Publisher Desktop
Using the BI Publisher Desktop to Build Layout Templates
Explain the capabilities of RTF templates
Describe the methods for RTF template creation
Create an RTF template
Create a Crosstab report
Create a Chart
Day 3
Advanced RTF Template Techniques
Describe advanced RTF template capabilities including Markup, Charts and Shapes, Conditional logic, Page-level Calculations, and more
Modifying an E-Business Suite Report that was Created Using Oracle Reports
Create and deploy an XML Publisher report
Understand the E-Business Suite development process
Modifying an E-Business Suite Report that was Created Using BI Publisher
Day 4
Building and Using a Data Template in E-Business Suite
Understand data templates
Create and associate a data template
Advanced E-Business Suite Concepts
Discuss GL reports in XML Publisher
Discuss XML Publisher bursting
Discuss migrating reports from Oracle Reports to XML Publisher
Administering BI Publisher in an E-Business Suite Install
Administration Options
Discuss XML Publisher specialized font usage
Discuss moving templates and data definitions between E-Business Suite instances
Day 5
Understanding PDF and eText Layout Templates
Describe the capabilities of PDF templates
Describe other template formats
Translating Reports
Describe the options for translating reports
E-Business Suite Report Development Standards
XML Publisher development standards
General E-Business Suite development standards
Day 6
Introduction to BI Publisher Enterprise
Access the Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Server
Executing a BI Publisher Enterprise Report
Create a Simple BI Publisher Enterprise Report Based on an Oracle Database Query
Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Integration Features
Discuss how to create a BI Publisher report created from an Answers request
Discuss how to create a BI Publisher report created from a BI Server repository
Discuss how to create a BI Publisher report from a Discoverer Workbook