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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

By : Andy Penver
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

By: Andy Penver

Overview of this book

Oracle's suite of applications is used by many major businesses and public sector organizations throughout the world. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples.This book will show readers a wide variety of step-by-step examples of how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in a number of areas. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, WebADI, and BI Publisher. It will take readers through the process of how to get started and what tools are needed. It will explain how to develop working examples and how to deploy them within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12, using detailed examples to work through how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, desktop integration (formerly WebADI), and BI Publisher and each chapter will introduce the topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed illustrations throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each topic will develop a solution that will utilize common core components of a subject area. It focuses on starting an extension right from the beginning to deploying it within E-Business Suite. At the end of each chapter the reader will have a good understanding of what they need to do for each area to take away and start using it in practice. Each chapter will detail how to build an extension in the supported manner and also comes with complete, fully tested code and scripts that can be downloaded.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing BI Publisher Bursting (e-mail)


Bursting is one of the most widely implemented features of BI Publisher. Bursting a report is essentially a process that accepts a data stream and splits it based on multiple criteria, generates output based on a template, then delivers the individual documents through the delivery channel of choice.

We will investigate an example where we burst our XXHR Duty Roster report into two individual reports, one for each week of our roster, and deliver the reports to a chosen e-mail address.

Creating the bursting file

In creating our XXHR Duty Roster report, we have already done all the hard work; the only missing piece of the puzzle with respect to bursting, is a Bursting Control file that needs to be linked to our Data Definition.

How to do it...

A sample Bursting Control file can be obtained from Oracle (search online or refer to a relevant BI Publisher guide). The following is the XML code for the Bursting Control file that we are going to use in our example...