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- 11i to R12 Upgrade (15)
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- 25/11/2010: Seeded Presentation templates for FSG’s
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- 22/09/2010: Drill Down with BIP in EBS
- 07/08/2010: Passion
- 30/07/2010: It’s Not About the Bike
- 30/06/2010: Oracle Government User Group
- 09/06/2010: Fitness or futility?
- 07/06/2010: Converting FSG’s and Discoverer reports to run in BIP
- 28/05/2010: Sympathy and Hope
Archive for 07/09/2009
BIP Patches for 11i
07/09/2009 by Simon Tomey.
| I often get asked about patches for BIP. The great news is BIP in EBS is now very ‘mature’ and thus most of the patches are now included in the latest 11i patch sets. Further details are in the table below. |  |
Key patches previously required for the latest functionality of BI Publisher are now included in the latest patch sets for 11.5.10.2. These include patches for the latest release of BIP (5.6.3), bursting and defaulting output to Excel. The good news is that pretty well everything is covered by the latest tech stack patch (Applications Technology 11i.ATG_PF.H.delta.7).
| Number | Purpose | 11i Included in: | Description |
| 5472959 | Latest version of BIP/XMLP 5.6.3 | Applications Technology 11i.ATG_PF.H.delta.5 to delta.7 | XDO/ORACLE XML PUBLISHER OA ROLLUP PATCH 5.6.3 |
| 5612820 | Default output to Excel | Applications Technology 11i.ATG_PF.H.delta.7 | DEFAULT OUTPUT FORMAT ATTRIBUTE AT TEMPLATE LEVEL IS REQUIRED |
| 7627832 | Default output to Excel | One off patch required | 1OFF:7017250:ATG RUP6:11.5.10.2:5612820 : BI PUBLISHER LAYOUT DEFAULTS TO ‘RTF’ |
| 5968876 | Bursting | Applications Technology 11i.ATG_PF.H.delta.6 to delta.7 | EBS-BURSTING INTEGRATION PATCH. |
If you do a search on BIP patches for R12 you’ll see that most of the latest fixes are also included in Family Pack (Applications Technology R12.ATG_PF.A.delta.6). In the early versions of R12 you actually had to patch to get to 5.6.3, but I can’t find any mention of this now and assume it is included in the latest version (you’d think it would be wouldn’t you).
My current understanding is that BIP is compatible with 11i versions back to 11.5.8 (but it’s not clear). The big issue for me would be the pre-requisite patches required for 5472959 and the consequent regression testing.
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BIP Output as Excel (by Default)
07/09/2009 by Simon Tomey.
| A number of you have asked me how to set the output of BI publisher to default to Excel. Oracle have now patched this issue and Gareth Roberts explains how. |  |
As accountants we love Excel, so it’s not surprising that a number of you have asked me how this can be the default output for BIP concurrent requests. This is now possible thanks to two patches Patch 5612820 (11i and R12)and Patch 7627832 (11i). Read the full details on Gareth’s blog (which I highly recommend)
http://garethroberts.blogspot.com/2009/01/revisited-changing-default-layout.html
5612820 is included in the latest patch sets (Applications Technology 11i.ATG_PF.H.delta.7 and Applications Technology R12.ATG_PF.A.delta.6) so you may already have the functionality available (11i will need Patch 7627832 too).
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