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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

A


Accessibility: The Template Builder provides an accessibility checker to check the template for features to enhance the accessibility of the report, for report consumers who may need assistive technologies to view the report.

Action Framework: A component of the Oracle BI EE architecture, consisting of:

  • Actions Web Services for creating and invoking actions that are deployed in the application server

  • Components that reside within the Presentation Server and Scheduler Services

  • Actions-specific JavaScript in the presentation tier for creating actions and invoking certain action types directly from the browser

Analyzer for Excel: A BIP tool that enables:

  • The export of the results of the report query to an Excel spreadsheet

  • To log in to BI Publisher Enterprise from Excel to refresh data, apply new Parameters, and apply a Template to the report data

  • To create Excel Templates and upload them to the BI Publisher server

  • To access and run reports from an Excel session