During OOW 2013 a full day seminar was organized by ODTUG covering 4 printing scenario's for Oracle Application Express : PL/PDF, Jasper Reports, FOP and BI Publisher.
This presentation covers that last one. Alas the demo isn't viewable...
6. Ease of Installation and Configuration
5
—Full blown version
—Web Logic Server
—BI Publisher 11g Enterprise
—Evaluation version
—BI Publisher Trial Edition (Windows / Linux)
Monday, September 9, 13
7. Ease of Installation and Configuration
6
—Full blown version
—Web Logic Server
—BI Publisher 11g Enterprise
—Evaluation version
—BI Publisher Trial Edition (Windows / Linux)
—Downloaded 11.1.1.7 and installed on OTN Dev Days VM
— Almost flawless. Almost ...
Monday, September 9, 13
8. Ease of Installation and Configuration
6
—Evaluation version
—BI Publisher Trial Edition (Windows / Linux)
—Downloaded 11.1.1.7 and installed on OTN Dev Days VM
— Almost flawless. Almost ...
Monday, September 9, 13
9. Ease of Installation and Configuration
7
—Evaluation version
—BI Publisher Trial Edition (Windows / Linux)
—Downloaded 11.1.1.7 and installed on OTN Dev Days VM
—Almost flawless. Almost ...
—Download BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.7
—Word 2003 / 2007 (not 2010)
—Downloaded and installed on Windows 7 VM
—Tried and tried (also on XP) ....
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10. Ease of Installation and Configuration
7
—Download BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.7
—Word 2003 / 2007 (not 2010)
—Downloaded and installed on Windows 7 VM
—Tried and tried (also on XP) ....
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11. Ease of Installation and Configuration
8
—Download BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.7
—Word 2003 / 2007 (not 2010)
—Downloaded and installed on Windows 7 VM
—Tried and tried (also on XP) ....
—Downloaded BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.6
—worked immediately
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12. Ease of Installation and Configuration
8
—Downloaded and installed on Windows 7 VM
—Tried and tried (also on XP) ....
—Downloaded BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.6
—worked immediately
Monday, September 9, 13
13. Ease of Installation and Configuration
8
—Downloaded and installed on Windows 7 VM
—Tried and tried (also on XP) ....
—Downloaded BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.6
—worked immediately
Monday, September 9, 13
14. Ease of Installation and Configuration
9
Define BI Publisher as your favorite printer for APEX
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15. Ease of Installation and Configuration
9
Define BI Publisher as your favorite printer for APEX
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16. Ease of Installation and Configuration
9
Define BI Publisher as your favorite printer for APEX
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17. Ease of Installation and Configuration
9
Define BI Publisher as your favorite printer for APEX
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18. Ease of Installation and Configuration
10
ORA-20001: The printing engine could not be
reached because either the URL specified is
incorrect or a proxy URL needs to be specified.
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24. Ease of Integration
15
Option 2 (BI as “owner”)
APEX
report request
page
with
report link
page
request data
request
data
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25. Ease of Integration
16
Option 3 (BI as “owner” + web services)
APEX
report
request
data
request / data
web
service
call
http://linux:7001/xmlpserver/services
Monday, September 9, 13