E-Business Suite: BI Publisher 5.6.3 for End Users

Starting with the basic concepts, architecture, and underlying standards of Oracle XML Publisher, this course will lead a student through a progression of exercises building their expertise. By the end of the course, the student should be able to create Oracle BI Publisher RTF templates. They should also be able to deploy and maintain a BI Publisher report in an E-Business Suite instance.

This class is also for students whose company have version 11.5.10 or higher installed.

Learn To:

• Understand the basic concepts and uses of Oracle XML Publisher
• Understand the underlying XML documents
• Create and use an RTF template
• Understand the use of a portable document format (PDF) templates
• Deploy and maintain BI Publisher Reports in an E-Business Suite instance

Audience

• Functional Implementer
• System Analysts

Course Topics Introduction

• Understand course agenda
• Understand the basics of Oracle BI Publisher
• Describe the technology of Oracle BI Publisher

Oracle BI Publisher Architecture

• Describe the components of Oracle BI Publisher
• Describe the architecture of Oracle BI Publisher

Introduction to XML

• Describe the XML documents

Installing BI Publisher Desktop: Using the BI Publisher Desktop to Build Layout Templates

• Explain the capabilities of RTF templates
• Describe the methods for RTF template creation
• Create an RTF template
• Create a Crosstab report
• Create a Chart

Advanced RTF Template Techniques

• Describe advanced RTF template capabilities including Markup, Charts and Shapes, Conditional logic, Page-level Calculations, and more

Modifying an E-Business Suite Report that was Created Using Oracle Reports

• Create and deploy a BI Publisher report
• Understand the E-Business Suite development process

Modifying an E-Business Suite Report that was Created Using BI Publisher:Understanding PDF and eText Layout Templates

• Describe the capabilities of PDF templates
• Describe other template formats

E-Business Suite Report Development Standards

• BI Publisher development standards
• BI Publisher development standards

Course Objectives

• Explain the basic concepts and uses of BI Publisher
• Describe the underlying XML documents
• Create and use a rich text format (RTF) templates
• Understand the use of a portable document format (PDF) templates
• Understand and use BI Publisher with E-Business Suite