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Oracle Publisher Desktop Features

Oracle Publisher Desktop provides the following features:

  • Template Builder. Allows you to modify and customize report templates. A user can create a template, and then a business user can use this same template to determine how to get data from the database. These users use the same template and authoring tool, so it is more likely that the business user will accurately interpret the requirements than if these users use different templates and tools. The Template Builder uses Form fields to specify the XSL instructions that Siebel CRM uses to parse XML data. A Form field is a feature in Microsoft Word that you use to create a report template in Oracle Publisher Desktop. To create these form fields, the Template Builder uses XML code that you create from the Siebel application and the report template. For more information about using the template builder, see Process of Creating Custom Reports.

  • Template Viewer. Allows you to use sample data to preview the report in multiple output formats.

  • Excel Analyzer. Allows you to do the following work:

    • Export report query results to an Excel spreadsheet.

    • Log in to Oracle Publisher Desktop from Excel to refresh your data, apply new parameters, and apply a template to the report data.

    • Create a template in Excel, upload it to the Oracle Publisher repository, and then access and run the report from Excel.

Excel Analyzer is available only in a connected client. For more information, see About Siebel Reports Architecture. Excel Analyzer is deprecated in Oracle Analytics Publisher but for instructions on how to reuse old analyzer templates, see Oracle Analytics Designing and Publishing Pixel-Perfect Reports in Oracle Analytics Server available at https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/analytics-publisher/downloads.html.

For more information about using Oracle Publisher Desktop, see Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Report Designer's Guide available on Oracle Technology Network (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html) and Oracle Analytics Publisher documentation available at https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/analytics-publisher/downloads.html.