As promised, the rest of this chapter will get you rolling with hands-on exercises for learning BI Publisher. Here, the goal is to step through the critical parts for setting up a BI Publisher 12c environment, creating a report or two, and preparing a report for delivery. Along the way, we will highlight features that you should keep an eye out for, research on your own at a later date, or simply understand to make your development cycles easier.
Let's start with administration. Because without that, there isn't much else you, or any of your users, will be able to do.
This section gets away from the theory and core explanations that you've read so far. You will take a step-by-step journey through a real-world implementation. This includes how to assess the Fusion Middleware Security application roles, create several data sources, and ensure that application roles have access to the desired data sources. All of this effort prepares...