Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 4 · BI Publisher: data models, templates and bursting
RTF templates: the practical subset
Lesson 34 of 177 · 2 min
RTF templates have a large syntax and a small practical subset that covers almost everything you will build. Fields place a value: a form field bound to an element name, formatted by the template rather than the query. Loops repeat a block for each row in a group — for-each around a table row is most of every document you will produce. Conditions show or hide a block: a discount line that only appears when there is a discount, an Arabic address block when the customer is Egyptian. Those three plus totals cover the working majority. THE WORD HABITS ARE WHAT PRODUCE A TEMPLATE NOBODY CAN MAINTAIN. Four in particular. Spaces and tabs used as layout instead of a table, which collapses the moment a value is longer than the test data. Manual line breaks holding a block together, which reflow unpredictably. Direct formatting applied character by character rather than…
The full lesson is part of the course
The video, the complete written lesson and the module quiz are included in Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions, with a certificate on completion and a fourteen-day refund window.
In this module: Module 4 · BI Publisher: data models, templates and bursting
- 1What a data model actually isFree preview
- 2SQL data sets: writing the query
- 3Parameters and lists of values
- 4Bursting: one run, many recipients
- 5RTF templates: the practical subset
- 6Excel and eText templates
- 7Sub-templates and reuse
- 8Layout, pagination and the printed page
- 9Localisation: Arabic, dates and numbers
- 10Performance: making a slow report fast
- 11Security in BI Publisher
- 12Scheduling and delivery
- 13What breaks: five BI Publisher failures
- 14Lab briefing · A supplier statement, end to end