Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher Desktop is an add-in for Microsoft Word and is used to customise the layout of stationery templates such as confirmation letters, registration cards, and guest folios. Oracle BI Publisher Desktop plugs into Microsoft Word and enables you to create report templates. A report template is a type of template that includes layout information for a report, such as the fields the report contains and the placement of these fields in the report.
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Sometimes the BI Publisher tab is referred to as the Stationery Editor.Oracle BI Publisher uses Microsoft Word and Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) to customize reports, folios, confirmation letters, and stationery output.
The report templates are designed using Microsoft Word and uploaded in Rich Text Format (RTF). Data from the OPERA Cloud database is exported to an XML format and merged with the RTF template to produce the report output in PDF, HTML, or RTF formats.
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You can still run OPERA Cloud reports without installing Oracle BI Publisher Desktop.You should use Oracle BI Publisher to create your report templates. If you use a different tool to create these templates, you must manually code the XSL statements and references to the data fields. It is also recommended to use the same version of Oracle BI Publisher Server and Oracle BI Publisher Desktop on your workstation environment.