I haven’t had a chance to publish a new post lately but last week my client asked me to personalize the Master Supplier Form. So here’s a new post on Forms Personalization for the Supplier Form.

While looking into the best solution for my client, I came across a few posts with what seemded at a first glance a good solution, but somehow these didn’t work for me. So this triggered me to writing a post on this particular solution for my clients’ business requirment.  Here are the details:

We hope you all enjoyed the Holiday season and are now fully rested and energized for a great 2008.  We certainly want to thank all of you for your continued support, contributions and comments to this blog, and the authors of this blog look forward to publishing a quite a few new and interesting posts over the coming year.

As for myself my client has kept me pretty busy building feeder programs, concurrent programs, staging tables and as the year closed transferring data from flat files to the apps financial interface tables.  Therefore I haven’t gotten around to blogging much. I still have some more BIPublisher pitfalls, suggestions and comments that I would like to share with you as well as some other interesting stuff.

So stay tuned to this blog.

Market rumours are buzzing and there is widespread speculation. It looks like the news will be acknowledged at Oracle OpenWorld that Fusion Apps will be delayed in delivery through 2009 at the earliest. Oracle has stated publicly that the first Fusion Applications are planned for 2007 and a first phase of Fusion Application Suite is scheduled for 2008. As Vinnie Mirchandani correctly predicted Oracle’s timetable was more of a “moonshot” than a pinpoint-accurate launch window when it was announced in January 2006.

XML Publisher is important for Oracle Applications, especially for Oracle Reports. Tim dexter’s post mentions the fact that Oracle is now internally converting all of the EBS Oracle Reports to XML Publisher. For all intents and purposes we can safely say that Oracle Reports in the Ebusiness suite are dead and burried (As will Oracle Forms be in a while in favour of the J2EE stack. That at least is my humble opinion. But that’s food for another post). In this post I will cover the issues on how to integrate Oracle E-business Suite Reports and XML Publisher.

BI Publisher provides a utility to facilitate the conversion of Oracle Reports (version 9i and later) to BI Publisher Reports. The conversion is a two-step process requiring a data model conversion and a layout conversion using the following new APIs:

• DataTemplateGenerator API converts the Oracle Reports data model to an XML Publisher data template.
• RTFTemplateGenerator API converts the Oracle Reports layout to an XML Publisher RTF template.

While using this utility, I ran accross a number of errors and an incomplete user guide. Migrating Apps Reports is certainly not a straightforward task. So lets look into this migration utility.