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Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting

By : Daniela Bozdoc
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Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting

By: Daniela Bozdoc

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle BI Publisher 11g (formerly XML Publisher) enables the creation, management and delivery of various reports, making it a desirable tool for any company to achieve the best image of your resources. This book offers practical application of BIP functionality for improving your ability to design and deliver quality reports just when they are needed.<br /><br />“Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting” is an applicable guide for using Oracle BIP from the perspective of a report developer, helping you to utilize the tool from simple to complex report design. You can take advantage of both the existing functionality of BIP 10g, as well as a special emphasis on the new 11g features.<br /><br />This guide will take you on a tour of Oracle BI Publisher 11g, beginning with a description of all of the new features in 11g. You’ll continue by learning from a range of step-by –step procedures for building Data Models, Layout Templates and report configurations, packed with screenshots to help you along. Finally, you’ll tackle themes like integration with Oracle EBS, Oracle report migration, and report translations.<br /><br />By the end of “Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting”, you’ll be equipped with all you need to know to produce complex reports detailing your company’s data.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Glossary
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
X
Z
Index

Locale selection logic


My Account interface allows you to choose a Report Locale to determine which RTF file, and then which XLIFF file, will be used. If an exact match on language-territory is not found, BI Publisher will try to match on the basis of language only. For example, you have a report template called Sales.rtf uploaded for the ro-RO locale. BI Publisher will search the RTF template and translation files like this:

  • Sales.rtf (ro_RO)

  • Sales.xlf (ro_RO)

  • Sales.rtf (ro)

  • Sales.xlf (ro)

  • Sales.rtf (default)

For situations such as different territories, it is recommended that we provide an RTF or XLF file named for the language only. Suppose that you have:

  • Sales.rtf (en_UK)

  • Sales.xlf (en_UK)

  • Sales.rtf (default)

In this case, when BIP looks for en_CA and this locale is not found, the default template will be applied and not the template including en as language. To avoid this, include only Sales_en.rtf or Sales_en.xlf for the language. For this you need to upload the mentioned files (Sales_en.rtf or Sales_en.xlf) selecting only the language for the Locale, as shown in the following screenshot: