XML Publisher Brusting

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

1/13

2011 IBM Corporation1

XML PublisherBursting

Aug 2013

Devender Yadav

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

2/13

2011 IBM Corporation22

Agenda

Overview of XML Publisher

About XML Publisher Bursting

Usage Scanerios

Case Study Automation of IUC invoice delivery in Bharti Airtel

Pre-req for Implementation

Implementation steps

References

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

3/13

2011 IBM Corporation3

XML Publisher is a state of art reporting technology, its architectureis based on decoupling of data, layout and translation.

Overview of XML Publisher

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

4/13

2011 IBM Corporation

Bursting is feature of XML Publisher engine which enables the splitting ofdata into blocks, generating document for each block and deliver thedocument to one or more destinations.

4

XML Publisher Bursting

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

5/13

2011 IBM Corporation

XML Publisher Bursting feature can be used in situation where one largedocument, containing repeating data blocks and each data block need todistributed to individuals e.g

Distribution of Salary hike letters to employees via email.

Automated delivery of customer invoices via email or fax.

Automated delivery of purchase orders via mail or fax.

Distribution of Financial/Business reports in management hierarchy.

Any other rule based distribution of documents.

5

Usage of Bursting

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

6/13

2011 IBM Corporation

Case Study: XML Publisher Bursting implemented in Bharti Airtel fordistribution of IUC invoices to customers.

Business pain areas before implementation:

Printing of invoices

Packing and sending invoice via currier

Time lag in physical delivery of invoice

Cost overhead of printing, packing and delivery

Business Benefits after implementation:

Saving of Invoice processing and dispatch cost on following heads:

Manpower for invoice printing, signing and dispatching of invoice

Cost of paper, printing, dispatch

Remove the time lag due to manual invoice delivery, will help in better fund management

and collection from the party.

This functionality should certainly add operational excellence to the process and will fasten

the process of the invoice delivery to the customers. Appreciate the efforts of your team and

a quick turn around on this.

Nitin Tayal, General Manager, Bharti IT

6

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

7/13 2011 IBM Corporation

Assuming that documents need to delivered via email, then followingare implementation prerequisites.

A concurrent program generating the consolidated output.

XML data tag, on which splitting is required

IP address and port of SMTP Server

Email address of From, Reply to

XML data tag representing email address for TO, CC

Email subject and email body

77

Implementation Prerequisites

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

8/13 2011 IBM Corporation

Bursting control file is configuration file that governs the XMLPublisher Bursting.

8

Implementation

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

9/13 2011 IBM Corporation

tag tells busting engine, bursting should bedone at the occurrence of which tag ?

We want Bursting to happen at each

occurrence of tag G_INVOICE

9

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

10/13 2011 IBM Corporation

tag tells bursting engine, which delivery mechanismto be used and on what condition ?

For Email

10

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

11/13 2011 IBM Corporation

Details end to end steps implementation steps for using XMLPublisher Bursting.

Build the Data Logic as per the business requirements

Deploy the data logic to the server

Register the concurrent Executable

Register the Concurrent program with output type as 'XML

Run Concurrent program and it will generate the output as XML file

Using the XML file generated above, Build the layout as RTF for the data structure using MS-

Word.

Build the Bursting Control File by considering the XML tags generated

Define the Data Definition using the XML Publisher responsibility and attach Bursting Control

file.

Define the Template

Run Concurrent program

Run XML Publisher Report Bursting Program and pass the request id of the completed

concurrent program as input parameter.

11

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

12/13

2011 IBM Corporation

Use the following code in after report trigger to invoke the XMLPublisher Report Bursting program automatically.

v_bursting_request_id := APPS.FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST('XDO',

'XDOBURSTREP',

NULL,

NULL,

FALSE,

'Y',

V_req_id, --Parent programs request id

'Y');

12

7/27/2019 XML Publisher Brusting

13/13

2011 IBM Corporation

References

User guide http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B15436_01/current/acrobat/115xdoug.pdf

Blogs

http://apps2fusion.com/at/49-cp/250-bursting-in-xml-bi-publisher

https://sites.google.com/site/shareapps4u/learning-topic/xml-publisher/how-to-use-xml-

bursting-to-send-xml-report-via-email

http://oracleappstechnofunctionalstuff.blogspot.in/2012/01/bursting-concept-in-xml-

publisher.html

http://www.slideshare.net/ediyanto83/oracle-xml-publisher-bi-publisher-presentation

13