Understanding Including External Attachments with BI Publisher Reports

PeopleTools enables you to include attachments from external sources with BI Publisher PDF report output.

The source attachments are converted to PDF format and then merged with the main report. The report is then displayed to the end users or delivered to Report Manager.

To convert attachments to PDF output, BI Publisher utilizes Oracle’s Outside In Technology (OIT), a product that enables the transformation and control of more than 600 file formats, including documents from office suites, specialty formats, and legacy files

This feature is available for any BI Publisher report with PDF output. The following template types are supported: RTF templates, PDF templates, and XSL templates.

Note:

This feature is not supported on z/OS platform.