A JD Edwards EnterpriseOne BI Publisher Releases

This appendix contains the following topics:

• Section A.1, "JD Edwards XML Publisher 8.96 Templates"

• Section A.2, "Migrating from 8.96 XML Publisher"

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne has provided a reporting solution based on Oracle's BI Publisher since the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.96 release. The solution was extended with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97 release by integrating the embedded BI Publisher reports into the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne lifecycle management. The solution was further extended in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.98 to support creating BI Publisher reports with JD Edwards Data Access Driver.

Note:

In the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.96 and 8.97 releases, BI Publisher was called XML Publisher.

A.1 JD Edwards XML Publisher 8.96 Templates

As a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customer, you fall into one of the following categories regarding BI Publisher:

1. You are new to BI Publisher, in that you are a new JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customer or an existing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customer who has not previously used BI Publisher.

2. You are currently using the 8.96 release of XML Publisher and are migrating to one of these releases:

   • JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools release 8.97

   • JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools release 8.98

3. You are currently using the 8.96 release of XML Publisher but do not want to migrate to either 9.1 at this time.

   Oracle strongly recommends that you migrate to 9.1 release of BI Publisher for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Migrating to future releases of BI Publisher will become increasingly more difficult if you continue to create objects using the 8.96 XML Publisher.

   If you decide to continue using the 8.96 XML Publisher, you should consult Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher User's Guide.

A.2 Migrating from 8.96 XML Publisher

The way that XML output is generated in 9.1 BI Publisher for EnterpriseOne is different from how the XML output was generated in the 8.96 release.

See Chapter 7, "Understanding the XML Output".

Because of this difference, if you are currently using 8.96 XML Publisher, Oracle recommends that you migrate to 9.1 BI Publisher for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

After upgrading to 9.1 follow these steps to convert your 8.96 XML Publisher templates:

1. From the BI Publisher Object Repository (P95600), download your 8.96 XML Publisher templates.

2. Create a report definition for each template.

3. Run each report definition to generate new XML output files.

4. Open each existing template.

5. When using Template Builder, from the Data menu, select Load XML Data.

6. Define each required field from the XML output to the template.

   For all other methods of creating and modifying templates, make the necessary modifications to the templates to recognize the 9.1 BI Publisher document tags.