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Oracle Fusion Middleware Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
Release 11g (11.1.1)
Part Number E13881-01
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Preface

Intended Audience

Welcome to Release 11g (11.1.1) of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.

This book is intended for the following groups of users:

See Related Information Sources for more Oracle product information.

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Structure

1  Introduction
2  Getting Started
3  Viewing a Report
4  Creating Report Jobs
5  Viewing and Managing Report Jobs
6  Viewing and Managing Report History
7  Managing Objects in the BI Publisher Catalog
8  Using the Data Model Editor
9  Creating Data Sets
10  Structuring Data
11  Adding Parameters and Lists of Values
12  Adding Event Triggers
13  Adding Flexfields
14  Adding Bursting Definitions
15  Creating or Editing a Report
16  Creating a BI Publisher Layout Template
17  Creating an RTF Template
18  Creating RTF Templates Using the Template Builder for Word
19  Creating a PDF Template
20  Creating a Flash Template
21  Creating an eText Template
22  Setting Formatting Properties
23  Creating and Implementing Style Templates
24  Understanding Subtemplates
25  Designing RTF Subtemplates
26  Designing XSL Subtemplates
27  Translation Support Overview and Concepts
28  Translating Individual Templates
29  Translating Catalog Objects, Data Models, and Templates
A  Techniques for Handling Large Output Files
B  Extended Function Support in RTF Templates
C  Designing Accessible Reports
D  Supported XSL-FO Elements

Related Information Sources

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) documentation set:

System Requirements and Certification

Refer to the system requirements and certification documentation for information about hardware and software requirements, platforms, databases, and other information. Both of these documents are available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

The system requirements document covers information such as hardware and software requirements, minimum disk space and memory requirements, and required system libraries, packages, or patches:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_requirements.htm

The certification document covers supported installation types, platforms, operating systems, databases, JDKs, and third-party products:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_certification.html

Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle E-Business Suite Data

Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.

Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.

Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.

When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.