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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

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Filter: Refines the displayed items by a condition. This is a powerful feature that enables you to display only desired elements in your table (filter them) without having to perform additional coding.

Flash Template: A template designed using Adobe Flash Player.

Flexfield: In an Oracle environment, a Flexfield is a database field that has flexibility built into it, so that users can define reporting structures that are relevant to their specific organizations. Two types of flexfields are provided:

  • Key flexfields, which are required to record key data elements in Oracle applications

  • Descriptive flexfields, which are user-defined and record data elements that aren't automatically provided