XML Publisher

Introduction:

Oracle publisher is a template based publishing solution delivered with oracle E-Business Suite. It provides a new approach to report design and publishing by integrated familiar desktop word processing tools with existing E-Business Suite data reporting.

XML Publisher provides the template manager for E-Business Suite user to register and maintain report templates and link them to data sources. Once both have been registered, simply run the report using standard request submission and XML Publisher will merge the template and its data source into customized report.

Below are the steps to Integrate with Oracle Apps.

Create a report and register it as Concurrent Program of type XML.
Build a Data Definition & XML Template using XML Publisher.

Create a relation between XML Template & Concurrent Program.