September 6th, 2007
BI Publisher 5.6.3
Oracle BI Publisher (XML Publisher) 5.6.3 is out. Check out Tim Dexter’s Blog.
Patch is 5472959 – XDO/ORACLE XML PUBLISHER OA ROLLUP PATCH 5.6.3
A selection of the new features:
- Template Builder Enhancements and Name Change
- Report Migration Utility
- Support for Rotated Text in RTF Templates
- Conditional Formatting Enhancement in RTF Templates
- Data Template Enhancements
I’m particularly interested in the Report Migration Utility:
XML Publisher provides a utility to facilitate the conversion of Oracle Reports (version 9i and later) to XML Publisher Reports
I will be coming out with a white paper on how to use this utility soon.
Oracle BI Report Migration Utility
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:
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.