Oracle BI Publisher (OBIP)

Oracle BI Publisher is a template-based desktop publishing application. Oracle BI Publisher was created by Oracle and was first used in its E-Business Suite; it was then bundled with the PeopleSoft Suite a few years ago. BI Publisher improves reporting by defining a Roadmap which can be a as simple as a Word Doc or Adobe. The data to the template is passed using XML Source code files been loaded as the input BI allows users to have control over the existing reports without any major changes to associated JDE reports/UBE.

Calculate Begin and End Dates for Month/Year

Calculate the Begin and End dates from a given Period/Year combination or to calculate the month’s begin and end dates from a given date. Like if you are given Period=3, Year=9, the Begin and End dates will be 03/01/2009 and 03/30/2009 respectively. Similarly if you were given a date say – 2/17/2009, the return Begin & End dates will be 02/01/2009 and 02/28/2009.

Change Database values using MS Access (JDE E1 Oracle)

For people who have problems with SQL, there’s an easier way of changing backend database values. How about using MS Access where you can directly type in the values, and it gets updated or you can Insert, Update Delete & you can export, import…. and all.
Following is the tutorial for setting up MS Access with Oracle Database Backend for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.