Accessing Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

You can access Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher by logging in with credentials or as a guest.

You can access BI Publisher in the following ways:

• Logging in with Credentials

• Logging in as Guest

Logging in with Credentials

You can get started with BI Publisher application by logging in with your credentials following these steps.

1. Navigate to the URL provided by your administrator, for example, http://example.com:9704/xmlpserver.
   
   

   
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2. Select the language that you prefer for log in page. Your language selection only remains in effect for the current session of BI Publisher. The next time you log into BI Publisher, the original default language is displayed.

   The log in page language selection does not take effect on any other pages in BI Publisher. For more information on setting the overall BI Publisher UI Language, see Setting General Preferences.

   If your implementation of BI Publisher is integrated with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, you cannot modify the language selection on the log in page.

3. Enter your credentials to sign in to BI Publisher.
4. Click Sign In. See Accessibility Mode.

• To set user preferences, see Setting My Account Preferences and Viewing My Groups.

• To browse the catalog, see Browsing the Catalog.

• To schedule reports, see Navigating to the Schedule Report Job Page.

Logging in as Guest

If your administrator has enabled guest access, then a Guest button displays on the Login page.

A guest user does not require credentials and has privileges only to view reports available in the folder set up for guest access.

1. Select the language you prefer for the user interface.
2. Click Guest.