Oracle BI Publisher Blog

After a whistle stop trip to HQ this week Im back in the saddle. Not sure why I put myself through the itinerary I came up with.With my wife out of town, kids with friends and a commitment to providing a two day Fusion Publisher course I needed to get to California and back to Colorado as quickly as possible.
That meant leaving home on Monday morning @3.30am to get into HQ for 8.30am - its a long trip to the airport here. Giving the seminar 10-5 ish Mon/Tues, not sleeping because my sinuses 'bung' up once I hit sea level and then jumping on a plane at 7.15 last night - after a delay I got to Chez Dexter at about 1am - exhausting! Dogs were glad to see me - I was not so glad to meet the 90 degree heat that we still have.

The Openworld team announced the 25 winners of the 'Suggest a Session' for OOW on Mix this week. We missed the cut by 2 votes - so no advanced session on Publisher this year :0( Unless two of the winners can't make it of course.
I'll try and do an Unconference session, which makes a welcome return this year, if anyone is interested.

I have just realized that I did not report on the user session we had last month. We had a fair few folks on the phone and came up with a decent list of topics to discuss.

• Karmit Goren R2L values in English environment. (We currently use English environment of Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2) - Karmit, you still have not told me what R2L is?
• Writing templates in Excel
• Future of Excel outputs
• Tips & Tricks
• Roadmap
• Jim Deak Better training materials
• Dave Barnes Advanced templating, especially some of the XSL and XPath techniques
• FSGs- Karen Brownfield - How to add more information into FSG reports Reporting attributes turned on for non-Gov customers
• Drill down from report outputs
• Bursting session Introduction Listener examples Dynamic delivery options
• Non IPP for Faxing – custom delivery channel
• R12 Payments Process
• Differences btw 11i and 12
• Purchase Orders - Customizing the PO report?
• Report Repository?
• Data Template Builder!
• Flex Lexical
• Default output format update
• RTF templates - Fixed # of rows
• Scalability Tips
• Etext Session
• Zebra Label Printing
• Charting – Temple Builder
• EBS vs Standalone versions
• XPATH/XSL Expressions
• Discoverer Integration
• Migration from 11i -> 12
• Siebel CRM Integration?
• Java Integration Introduction
• RDF -> RTF migration

Quite a list, I was asking everyone for more until Karen pointed out that if we met once a month we had enough here for a couple of years!
Some of the requests, I dont think, warrant a full session I can blog about them. Others like Jim's comment - duly noted :) We had a few volunteers for sessions, I seem to remember Karen offering help on an FSG session and Kevin, the new eText template meister offered help on an eText session.
I'll get a schedule together and post it as soon as I can!