Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Related Documentation and Other Resources
• Conventions

New Features for Oracle BI Publisher Users

• New Features and Changes for Release 12c (12.2.1.1.0)

1 Introduction to Using Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

• Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
• Tasks for Report Consumers
• System Requirements and Certification

2 Getting Started

• Accessing Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
  • Logging in with Credentials
  • Logging in as Guest
• Setting My Account Preferences and Viewing My Groups
  • Editing Account Preferences
  • Setting General Preferences
    • Report Locale
    • UI Language
    • Time Zone
    • Accessibility Mode
  • Changing Your Password
  • Viewing Your User Groups
• About the Home Page
  • Create
  • Jobs or Browse/Manage
  • Download BI Publisher Desktop Tools
  • Recent
  • Favorites
• About the Catalog
  • Browsing the Catalog
• About the Global Header
• Searching the Catalog

3 Viewing a Report

• Viewing a Report
• Using the Report Viewer Options
  • Parameters
    • The Parameter Search Dialog
    • Flexfield Parameter Dialog
  • Layouts
  • View Report and Choose Other Output Types
  • Actions

4 Creating Report Jobs

• Navigating to the Schedule Report Job Page
• Setting General Options
• Setting Output Options
  • Adding Outputs
  • Adding Destination Types to Report Output
    • Report Output Destination Types
    • Content Server Destination Type Properties
• Defining the Schedule for a Job
  • Defining a Recurrence Pattern
    • Once
    • Hourly/Minute
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
    • Annually
    • Specific Dates
  • Enabling a Schedule Trigger
• Configuring Notifications
  • Adding Notifications
    • Enabling Email Notifications
    • HTTP
• Submitting and Monitoring a Job
• Creating a Job from an Existing Job
• Creating a Bursting Job
• Advanced Topics
  • Incrementing Date Parameters
  • Defining a Destination File Name Dynamically Using a Date Expression
    • Examples
• Running Diagnostics for a Report

5 Viewing and Managing Report Jobs

• About the Manage Report Jobs Page
• Viewing Jobs for a Specific Report
• Searching for Report Jobs
• Setting the Time Zone for Viewing Jobs
• Viewing Job Details
• Pausing Jobs
• Resuming Jobs
• Deleting Jobs
• Editing Jobs
• Refreshing the Manage Report Jobs Page

6 Viewing and Managing Report History

• Viewing Report Job History and Saved Output
• Viewing Job History for a Specific Report
• Searching for Report Job History
• Viewing Details of a Job History
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• Downloading Data from a Report Job
• Republishing a Report from History
• Sending an Output to a New Destination
• Monitoring Running Jobs
• Canceling a Running Job
• Getting Error and Warning Information for Reports
• Deleting a Job History
• Refreshing the Report Job History Page

7 Managing Reports

• Overview of the BI Publisher Folders
• Reporting Components Stored in the Catalog
• Creating a Folder or Subfolder
• Performing Tasks on Catalog Objects
• Downloading and Uploading Catalog Objects
• Understanding the Impact of Taking Actions on Objects Referenced by Reports
• Exporting and Importing Catalog Translation Files

A Accessibility Features

• What are Accessibility Features?
• Changing to Accessibility Mode
• Accessibility Support in the BI Publisher User Interface
  • Signing In Using Keystrokes
  • Navigating the Home Page
  • Navigating Multiple Rows in Tables
• Accessibility Support in BI Publisher Report Output
• Keyboard Shortcuts