Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 4 · BI Publisher: data models, templates and bursting
Layout, pagination and the printed page
Lesson 37 of 177 · 2 min
This is the unglamorous half of BI Publisher, and it is the half clients notice. Nobody thanks you for a correct query; everybody sees a total split across two pages. Page breaks belong to the data, not to the paper: a break after each supplier, so one statement never starts halfway down another's last page. That is a property of the group, set in the template, and it is the first thing to configure on any document that repeats. Repeating headers are what make page two readable. A table whose column headings appear once, at the top of page one, is a table nobody can read on page four — and the fix is a table property rather than a manual copy of the header row, which is what people reach for and what falls apart when the data grows. Totals that must appear on the LAST PAGE ONLY are…
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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