Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Administrator's and Developer's Guide

Intended Audience

Welcome to Release 10.1.3.4 of the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Administrator's and Developer's Guide.

This guide is intended for administrators and developers. This guide contains the describes the following for administrators:

Setting up BI Publisher security and define users and roles
Setting up data sources
Setting up integrations with other Oracle products
Configuring system-level properties
Configuring delivery options
Performing system maintenance

This guide contains the following information for developers:

Using the BI Publisher public Web service
Using the BI Publisher APIs
Setting up an after-report trigger

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Structure

1 Introduction to Oracle BI Publisher Administration
2 Defining a Security Model
3 Using the Admin Functions
4 Setting Up Data Sources
5 Setting Up Integrations
6 Setting System Maintenance Options
7 Setting Up Delivery Options
8 Setting Runtime Properties
9 Setting Up Print Servers
10 Using the BI Publisher Web Services
11 Using the BI Publisher APIs
12 Using the Delivery Manager APIs
13 Setting Up an After Report Trigger
A Configuration File Reference

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Information specifically related to BI Publisher can be found at:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bi_pub.html

Other guides in the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher documentation set include:

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Report Designer's Guide

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Installation Guide

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Certification Guide

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Release Notes

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Java API Reference Guide

All of these guides are available from: