Manual Method to generate Output files(PDF,EXCEL,TXT,HTML) Using BI-Publisher Desktop in EBS When OPP fails or not able to generate Out for some Concurrent Programs.
1) Download the Oracle BI Publisher Desktop from Oracle Metalink. You will get the below files inside the Oracle BI Publisher Desktop folder.
2) Create a New folder for BI Publisher for staging directory.
3) Now take the output file from the server which will reside on $APPLCSF/out and copy it to the directory BI Publisher.
4) And download the template (RTF) of the particular Concurrent Program using below steps.
Navigate to XML Publisher Administrator à Home à Templates
a) Using the Short Name of the Concurrent Program and query it in Code and Go . You Will be shown the Concurrent name.
b) Click on the name of the concurrent and you will be redirected to the View Template page. Download the template and copy it to the BI Publisher Folder which we have created.
c) Now we have the out file and the template of the concurrent program in BI Publisher folder.
d) We have to change the out file (.out) format to (.xml) format by using notepad ++ or any third party tools. Just open the file in notepad++ and save it as xml language.
5) Now Click on Template Viewer and you will see a console like the below.
6) Now Browse the location of the BI Publisher Folder which we have created and you will find the xml files at the DATA column and the Template(rtf) at the TEMPLATE area.
7) We have to select both RTF and XML and then choose the output Format. Finally Click on Start Processing. output will be generated in the chosen format.
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