Processing Invoice Bursting

The PeopleSoft Billing system is able to achieve batch emailing of invoices and retaining invoice images via the bursting feature of BI Publisher. During the Finalize and Print processing of invoices, the BI_XMLPBURST program is run which will generate a PDF file which contains multiple invoices, and break it up into smaller PDF files of one file per invoice. This means that for each distinct invoice, a separate PDF file will be generated.

The name of the PDF will be a concatenation of Business Unit, Invoice and sequence number. These bursted files are stored in a temporary working directory which is deleted once the processing completes. For Windows, the working directory is specified in the TMP environment variable of the process scheduler. For UNIX environments, the working directory is specified in the PS_FILEDIR environment variable.

The burst program will loop through each bursted file and either email the PDF file, attach the PDF file or both depending on your system settings. If the invoice file is to be emailed, then a row is inserted into an email log table to track the email attempt and the results.

Note:

The email invoice as attachment and retain invoice image features do not support the SF1034/1035 BI Publisher invoice.