XML publisher Process Overview

XML publisher Process Overview

Process Overview:-

Creating customized reports using XML Publisher can be divided into two phases

• Design time
• Run Time

Design time: -

1. Register the E-business suite report as a Data Definition in the Template Manager.

                                       Create a Data definition in the Template Manager for E-business Suite reports that

                                       We wish to customize using XML Publisher. When you create the Data Definition

                                       Code must match the E-Business Suite report short name.

2. Design our template

                  Our template files can be either in Rich Text Format (RTF) or Portable Document.

                  RTF is a specification used by many word processing applications, such as

                  Microsoft word. We design the template using our desktop word processing

                  Application and save the file as an RTF file type (.rtf extension). Insert basic

                  Markup tags to the document to prepare it for merging with the XML data. XML

                  Recognizes the formatting features that we apply and converts them to XSL-FO.

                  Use Adobe Acrobat to apply markup tags to your custom-designed or

                  Downloaded PDF template

3. Register out template in the Template Manager

                  When we create the Template Manager, we register and upload our RTF

                  Or PDF template files. The template must be assigned to the Data definition

                  Code of the E-Business Suite report with which it will be merged.

4. Add desired translations of your RTF template

                  XML Publisher’s translation utility allows us to extract the translatable strings

                  From your template into an XLIFF file. Translate the strings in this file and re-

                  upload to the Template Manager to make translation available at runtime.

Run Time: -

1.        Set the concurrent program to generate XML.

2.        Run the concurrent program using standard request submission to obtain the XML

Output.

3.        Run the XML Publisher Concurrent Request .

The XML Publisher Concurrent Request will prompt us to enter the Request ID from the previous step, and t select a template, template locale, and output type. Available templates are those associated to the report Data Definition in the Template Manager. XML Publisher merges our design template with the XML data to generate your customized output.