Prerequisites for Stationery Editor
OPERA Cloud stationery is customized using Microsoft Word; supporting all standard and familiar formatting capabilities of an RTF document; including images, tables, font style, size, color and alignment. You can also include links to websites, either as text links or as part of a clickable image. Most stationery is generated in PDF format, for printing or email delivery. HTML output is also supported for email confirmation delivery. See Configuring Delivery Management for more information.
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher Desktop is a special add-in for Microsoft Word which is used to assist with the customization of stationery templates, by supporting the import of an XML data file containing a list of the data elements available and allowing you to drag and drop these data elements onto the RTF layout as needed. At runtime these data elements are replaced with actual values from OPERA Cloud. The add-in also allows you to define conditional blocks of text and graphics within the template. Prior to customizing any stationery templates ensure your workstation has Microsoft Word and the Oracle BI Publisher add-in installed. See Installing Oracle BI Publisher Desktop on a Workstation for more information.
For more information on Oracle BI Publisher and RTF templates refer to Fusion Middleware Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.
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Users do not need to install Oracle BI Publisher to generate OPERA Cloud reports and stationery.
Predefined (internal) report groups exist in OPERA Cloud for each type of stationery that can be generated. In multi-language operations (Multi-language OPERA Control is active) you must reference a template for each configured. For example you would have a Japanese folio, English folio and Spanish folio if these three languages are configured. See Stationery Reports Groups for more information.
In multi-property operations templates can be shared by multi properties – simply reference the same RTF template file in report configuration in each property. Any future change made to the template is in effect immediately at each property using the template.
Whilst images can be embedded within a template it is recommended to always use a placeholder graphic and reference a web image by URL - this method ensures the image is available when stationery is generated in HTML format (e.g. confirmation email) and also supports the display of a dynamic images based on the property code - such as the property logo when working with shared multi-property stationery.
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Templates must be under 10MB in size.
Custom message text configuration is also available for stationery templates; allowing you to configure translatable text strings in OPERA Cloud that are included in the generated stationery. Special data elements in the XML data file are available for these custom message texts, suffixed with the property code, so you can setup a custom message per property. For example, for the confirmation letter template there are SAMPLE_GUEST_CONFIRMATION_TEXT1 and SAMPLE_GUEST_CONFIRMATION_TEXT2 data elements. This feature is useful when you have a special promotional message you'd like to include in the generated stationery short-term and eliminates the need to download and update the RTF template directly. You can grant other users the Report Text Configuration user task and not the Manage Report user tasks; limiting who can modify RTF templates yet still allowing configuration of custom messages for stationery.
Parent topic: Reports