Briefing Book
This is a short description.
A briefing book is a collection of static or updatable snapshots of dashboard pages and individual analyses.
You can:
Add the content of dashboard pages (including pages that contain BI Publisher reports) or individual analyses to new or existing briefing books. See "Adding Content to a New or Existing Briefing Book"
Edit briefing books to reorder content, delete content, and change the content type, navigation link properties, and content description. See "Editing a Briefing Book"
Download briefing books in PDF or MHTML format for printing and viewing. See "Downloading a Briefing Book". The PDF version of a briefing book contains an automatically generated table of contents. For information about the table of contents, see "Briefing Book PDF Version Table of Contents"
Add a list of briefing books to a dashboard page. See "Adding a List of Briefing Books to a Dashboard Page"
Update, schedule, and deliver briefing books using agents, if your organization licensed Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers. See "Delivereing Briefing Books via Agent"
Briefing Book PDF Version Table of Contents
The PDF version of a briefing book contains a table of contents that is automatically generated. It contains an entry for each dashboard page, analysis, and report in the briefing book. Each of these entries includes a time stamp and the page number within the PDF file. The time stamp value depends on how the content was saved to the briefing book. If the content was saved as updatable, then the time stamp is current. If the content was saved as a snapshot, then the time stamp is the time of the snapshot.
Indented beneath each entry for a dashboard page are any briefing book links included on that page, up to a maximum of nine links. These entries do not include timestamps. For example:
Table of Contents
My Dashboard Page 7/11/2008 9:15:20 AM . . . . . .1
Years to Dollars Dashboard . . . . . . . . . .2The administrator can modify the template for the table of contents so that the table of contents that is generated in your briefing books might have a different look.