Developing Barcode Reports in BI Publisher

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This article from Piyush gives a detailed step by step instruction to develop and deploy BI Publisher reports with Barcodes.
Report Writing is one of the important tasks in every Oracle Apps Project. We have different types of reports using different technologies which give output in different format. Producing output using BARCODE font is one of the important report development activity which comes under MSCA. Barcodes can be thought of as a font for information on a Report. Using barcodes as part of any operation has many advantages like High Data Accuracy, Efficient Data Entry, Efficient Tracking and Monitoring. Bar code scanning allows data entry on the correct field in Oracle mobile application (including WMS and MSCA) irrespective of the cursor position on the mobile form.

Basic Requirement before Developing the Barcode Report
BarCode Font needs to be installed on server and on Development Machine
Ttf file needs to reside on server.ttf file indeed is a windows file but for font subsetting purposes, we copy this windows file onto UNIX. The reason is True type fonts are not available in UNIX and so we make use of windows true type fonts. The location of this ttf file is added into REPORTS_PATH environment variable. As REPORTS_PATH is set as an environment variable, executing: echo $REPORTS_PATH should give you the values contained in it. Simply append the directory path of your ttf file in REPORTS_PATH and this would make this ttf file available to the Reports Server.

How to Register the Barcode Font in Oracle Application and Install on Unix server and on development machine?
Step by Step Guideline
Applying Barcode Font by uploading Font File to Database –
Use the Font Files page to view and upload font files for use with XML Publisher at runtime.
To navigate to the Font Files page use XML Publisher Administrator --> Administration --> Font Files.

The entire article can be read from this link

http://www.apps2fusion.com/training_demo/piyushk/bi-publisher/bar-code/barcode-report-bi-publisher.pdf

Piyush Kulkarni

Comments

0 #1 venkatesh N 2008-09-03 11:11

Hi,

this is a very nice article and i am sure it will be of gret help to a lot of people ! MICR, BarCode templates are some hot stuff that a lot of people look assistance for and this surely is one for them. I was wondering why i was unable to get hte MICR codes when i was using hte font files feature, but i realized that I missed the FO Processing part. I will try and see ! Thanks again

Venki

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0 #2 kart 2008-09-08 01:19

Hi,
I am not able to view/open any attachment along with the above mentioned link.Please check the link.

Thanks
K artikey

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0 #3 Sankar Chowdhury 2008-09-08 02:13

This is a very useful article. However I can not access it. It would be appreciated if the same can be sent to my above email address.

Regar ds
Sankar

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0 #4 Murali Challa 2008-09-08 05:34

Hi,

i'm not able to view/open any attachment along with above mentioned link. Please chechk the above link.

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Murali Challa

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0 #5 Sravanthi 2008-09-08 09:47

Hi Piyush,

The link above is not accessible. Can you please upload the file again or email me.

Thank you
Sravanthi

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0 #6 ssunilroyal 2008-09-09 10:30

Hi,

Please help me to open this link, really its very useful concept.

Regar ds,
Sunil.

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0 #7 ssunilroyal 2008-09-09 10:33

Hi Venkatesh,

Why cant you help us in this situation, as u already saw this article, so u r the right person to solve this tracker.

Thank s,
Sunil.