Oracle BI XML Publisher

ORACLE XML Publisher

Sharing Experience6-May-2012

Agenda

• Understanding How XML Work • Basic to create XML report • More Advanced • Showing Trapshooting • View examples .

Tasks to create XML Report

• Setup Oracle Bi Publisher Desktop .• Generate XML Flat • Design layout • Create Data Definition .• Create Layout Definition

Generate XML Flat File 1- If report not under Oracle Application Report .

Form your RDF >File > Generate file to >XML

Note : if you use Report Builder less than 10 g please take into your consider that -no spaces in you flat . -No Arabic in your flat .

2- if report under Application reports : Query report from concurrent then change Output Format to XML .

Creating layout

• Load Data to your RDF .• Design you layout .• Insert fields and Group .

Designing the Template Layout .

Use your word processing application's formatting features to create the design.For example:• Select the size, font, and alignment of text• Insert bullets and numbering• Draw borders around paragraphs• Include a watermark• Include images (jpg, gif, or png)• Use table autoformatting features• Insert a header and footer

Defining Groups

• By defining a group, you are notifying XML Publisher that for each occurrence of an

• element, you want the included fields displayed. At runtime, XML Publisher will loop

• through the occurrences of the element and display the fields each time.• To designate a group of repeating fields, insert the grouping tags around

the elements to repeat.• Insert the following tag before the first element:• <?for-each:XML group element tag name?>• Insert the following tag after the final element:• <?end for-each?>

About Grouping Tags

• If you insert the grouping tags around text or formatting elements, the text and formatting elements between the group tags will be repeated.

• If you insert the tags around a table, the table will be repeated.

• If you insert the tags around text in a table cell, the text in the table cell between the tags will be repeated.

• If you insert the tags around two different table cells, but in the same table row, the single row will be repeated.

• If you insert the tags around two different table rows, the rows between the tags will be repeated

Adding a Sample Chart

Defining Headers and Footers

• At the time of this writing, Microsoft Word does not support form fields in the header and footer.