Ubiquitous BIP
The last number I heard from Mike and the PM team was that BIP is now embedded in more than 40 oracle products. That's a lot of products to keep track of and to help out with new releases, etc. Its...
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Barcodes and Bugs
A great mail from Mike at Browning last week. He has been through the ringer getting his BIP barcoding sorted out but he's now out of the woods. Here's the final result.By way of explanation, an...
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Quick Quips on QR Codes
Yes, I'm an alliterating all-star; I missed my calling as a newspaper headline writer. I have recently received questions from several folks on support for QR codes. You know them they are everywhere...
View ArticleBI Publisher at OpenWorld 2012
For those going to OpenWorld, hope you can join us for any of the following Sessions, Hands On Labs or just stop by and visit us in the DEMOgrounds:Moscone South S-262Oracle Business Intelligence...
View ArticleOpenWorld Presentations and Anatomy of an RTF Template w/ files
For those who missed it ... or those who made it and couldn't get enough, check out the presentations delivered at OpenWorld:Overview and RoadmapThe Reporting Platform for Oracle ApplicationsBest...
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Chart Filtering
Interesting question from a colleague this week. Can you add a filter to a chart to just show a specific set of data?In an RTF template, you need to do a little finagling in the chart definition. In an...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning
I recently got a shiny new laptop; moving my shiz from old to new, was not the nightmare it used to be. I have gotten into the habit of using a second hard drive in the media bay where the CDROM...
View ArticleInteresting fact #123423
Question from a customer on an internal mailing list this, succintly answered by RTF Template God, Hok-MinQ: Whats the upper limit for a sum calculation in terms of the largest number BIP can handle?...
View ArticleAll hail the Excel Queen
An excellent question this past week from dear ol Blighty; actually from Brian at Nextgen Clearing Ltd in the big smoke (London). Brian was developing an excel template and wanted to be able to...
View ArticleBeat the Post-Holiday Blues with a dose of BIWA
You know its coming so why not plan ahead. Come and join like minded professionals at the BIWA Summit 2013Early Bird Registration ends December 14th for BIWA Summit 2013. This event, focused on...
View ArticleE-Business Suite 12 - XML Publisher enabled reports
With some help from the EBS folks, I recently re-ran a report on the latest EBS environment that stores the seeded content that we ship to customers. The document here (sorry,I had to zip it), lists...
View ArticleVariable Numbers to Words
Satyender posted a comment to the Numbers to Words post asking:How can I store the result of <?xdofx:to_check_number(TOTAL_INV_AMOUNT,'USD','CASE_UPPER','DECIMAL_STYLE_WORDS')?> inside a...
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Get yourself Organized!
A request from Leslie today to help her out on the user docs. In them we state that we support the MSWord organization charts but we do not give any detail. Use the organization chart functionality in...
View ArticleIntegrating BI Publisher and Forms, ADF and APEX
For those of you integrating or planning to integrate with Forms, ADF or APEX, a presentation from our friends at PITSSTuesday, 14.05.2013 (14-May-2013)2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (CEST) Free WebinarIntegrating...
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Bulding on Subject Areas
The new release of BI Publisher 11.1.1.7 has a very nice new feature for those of you wanting to build reports on top of the BI Server data model. In previous releases you would need to either write...
View ArticleBI Publisher 11g Training - Jul 1-3
For those of you still sitting on the 10g fence ... or if you're new to Publisher 11g, take advantage of this educational opportunity:Oracle BI Publisher 11g R1: FundamentalsLearn To: Create data...
View ArticleIntegrating BI Publisher and Forms 11g via web services
A freshly updated white paper on how to integrate BI Publisher 11g reports into an Oracle Forms 11g application is now available from the BI Publisher OTN page along with sample code and a...
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Working the Chart Percentages
Charting in BIP is such fun, well sometimes it is. Not so much today, at least not for Ron in San Diego. He needed a horizontal bar chart showing values plotted for various test areas with value labels...
View ArticleSiebel BIP Integration
This post is more of a bookmark for me so that I stop bugging the brown stuff out of the John the Siebel-BIP product manager. I have had multiple customers over the past two weeks asking for help...
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Minning and Maxing in Pivots
A tricksy question from a hobbiteses this past week or so. How can I use minimum or maximum in an RTF template pivot table?Using the pivot table dialog box, you get sum or count. So, how to get a min...
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