Getting things done with PeopleTools
The BI Publisher Desktop is the easiest way to create your report templates for BI Publisher Reports. Oracle provides Add-Ins for both Microsoft Word and Excel to help you quickly create new reports and modify existing reports.
Sub-Templates allow us to create a commonly used code block such as headers with logos and other information instead of recreating that header on every report. When an item in that header changes, we only need to change the header sub-template instead of every report that uses that common header.
Using a quick change, we can get BI Publisher Reports generated through the Process Scheduler to post to the Processes detail page along with the other files and logs.
Properly handling the dates between the XML File and a BI Publisher Excel template is actually quite easy once you understand what is happening and how to correct the issue.
Using PeopleTools, we can generate BI Publisher reports containing images from our PeopleSoft environment. Use the user uploaded images in PeopleSoft on BI Publisher Reports.
BI Publisher allows the use of advanced form fields such as checkboxes to both ease development and create a more professional, modern looking product.
PeopleCode enables watermarking PDF documents through the delivered PSXP_ENGINE:PDFMerger class. One of that class’s properties is the PSXP_ENGINE:Watermark class. By manipulating a few properties of this Watermark class, we can add a text or image watermark to a PDF document.
Use PeopleCode delivered API’s to merge PDF documnets
Use the PeopleTools delivered APIs to invoke BI Publisher reports with PeopleCode
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