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Ways to get a BI Publisher Report from APEX


Oracle BI Publisher

Layout & Data Definition are separated in BI Publisher

very flexible usage

different ways to integrate in APEX

Report

Layout

Language

BI Publisher

Report Data Modell

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Sub Templates

Style Templates

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1


4 Main Questions

• Where is the data defined?

• Where is the layout located?

• How is the BI Publisher Report called from APEX?

• And what are advantages & disadvantages of the options?

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What are the Options?

Call

Layout

Report

Shared Component

„Coding“

Database BIP

BIP APEX

(„print“) Link

Servlet

HTTP

APEX_UTIL

Button

WebService

PL/SQL

Database

Data

APEX


Ways we look for

1 Convert Servlet – Data (Report) & Layout in APEX

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Configuration for Servlet Integration

Internal

Workspace



Ways we look for

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Convert Servlet – Data (Report) & Layout in APEX

Convert Servlet – now Data as Shared Component


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APEX_UTIL.GET_PRINT_DOCUMENT

APEX_UTIL.GET_PRINT_DOCUMENT ( p_application_id => 111,

p_report_query_name => 'MyQuery',

p_report_layout_name => 'Layout_APEX_SC',

p_report_layout_type => 'rtf',

p_document_format => 'pdf',

p_print_server => null)

);



Ways we look for

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Convert Servlet – now without APEX



3 Steps

• CREATE an APEX Session in PL/SQL

• Set your wished session state

– -> set your parameters

• Use APEX_UTIL.GET_PRINT_DOCUMENT


…. apex_custom_auth.post_login( p_uname => p_app_user, p_session_id => APEX_CUSTOM_AUTH.GET_NEXT_SESSION_ID, p_app_page => apex_application.g_flow_id||':'||p_app_page_id);

APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE ( p_name => 'P20_ABTEILUNG', p_value => p_deptno);


Ways we look for

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HTTP – Data & Layout in BIP


4


Ways we look for

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WebService – Data & Layout in BIP


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Extract and convert document from Envelope

Select clob001,

APEX_WEB_SERVICE.CLOBBASE642BLOB(report_blob)

from apex_collections, xmltable(

xmlnamespaces(default 'http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/service/v2'),

'//runReportReturn'

passing xmltype(clob001)

columns

report_blob clob path 'reportBytes')

where collection_name = 'BIP_COLLECTION';



Ways we look for

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WebService – Data & Layout in BIP

WebService – now via Package


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WebService in Package

• Built Envelope

• Make Request with Envelope (APEX_WEB_SERVICE.MAKE_REQUEST) to WebService-URL

• Extract „reportBytes“ from response und convert to BLOB

g_envelope_bip varchar2(4000) := '<soapenv:Envelope…..

v_soap_response := apex_web_service.make_request( p_url => g_webservice_url, p_action => '', p_envelope => v_soap_envelope );


Native Integration (Convert Servlet)

• Simple

• No BIP-Admin, only running

• Single point of development

• Reporting in Apps-Export included

• No additional Security-Work

WebService via Database

• Flexible and powerful

• Reusability higher

• Security via technical User

• Some Coding needed


Two preferred ways

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