7 Adding Bursting Definitions

This chapter describes BI Publisher's support for bursting reports and how to define a bursting definition in the data model to split and deliver your report to multiple recipients.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• About Bursting

• What is the Bursting Definition?

• Adding a Bursting Definition to Your Data Model

• Defining the Query for the Delivery XML

• Passing a Parameter to the Bursting Query

• Defining the Split By and Deliver By Elements for a CLOB/XML Data Set

• Configuring a Report to Use a Bursting Definition

• Sample Bursting Query

• Creating a Table to Use as a Delivery Data Source