Templates, Report Defs, Bursting, OH MY! – BIP Setup for BAs

Presented at INFOCUS 2016

Session ID:  102370

-Embedded BI Publisher is an awesome tool – it’s free, it’s easy to install, and it can turn not-so-pretty JDE report output into beautiful documents.  So you design your layout, you have your developer create the template, and the users and customers love it!

-But wait – who administers these templates?  Who makes changes to the emailing, and the bursting, and the versions, and the…???  Often, that’s left to the functional analysts, who, without formal training, have to figure out how it all works and what to do when it doesn’t.

-In this overview session, we’ll go through the basics of BI Publisher applications – how they work together, what information is needed, and how to enable and disable them.  Then, we’ll discuss how the output is created, how to access it, and what you need to know to change it.  Finally, we’ll go through ways to use the features such as bursting, email, and output to file location, including a bonus on custom data structures for emails and file naming.