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Write Your Own Report XML

The first step in creating your own report is to create your own report XML. Each report XML is project-specific. The best way to start is to use existing report as a base for your modifications

CAUTION:  The Reporting Engine has a DTD, but is not used to validate the report XML. Therefore, make sure you do not to miss required attributes or XML elements.

You can create one report XML, which includes all the reports for your project, or you can create one XML file for each report. Remember to register all your report XML files in the reportList.properties file, and to give each XML file a unique name.

After creating your own report XML you can test it through the default template. Name your report ID with a prefix of telco_std, which will cause it to be loaded into the standard billing report list of Oracle Self-Service E-Billling

CAUTION:  Make sure that each report has a unique name across all the reports in all report XMLs, or else a latter one will overwrite the previous one.