3.1 Overview of BI Publisher Layouts Release 11 g of Oracle BI Publisher introduces a new type of layout template. The BI Publisher Layout template enables end users to: • View Dynamic HTML output and perform lightweight interaction with their report data from within a browser • Generate high fidelity, pixel perfect reports to PDF, RTF, Excel, PowerPoint, and static HTML BI Publisher Layout Templates are created using the BI Publisher Layout Editor - a design tool that provides a WYSIWIG, drag and drop interface for creating pixel perfect reports in PDF, RTF, Excel, PowerPoint, and HTML.
It also provides dynamic HTML output that supports lightweight interaction through a browser. This interactive output is featured in. Figure 3-1 Example of Interactive Output Notice the following features: • Pop-up chart details - Hover cursor over chart items to display details of data.
• Group filtering - Grouped regions can be filtered by the grouping element. • Scrollable tables - Table data can be scrolled while maintaining display of the headers and totals. • Table column sorting - Table data can be sorted by different columns from within the viewer. • Table column filtering - Table data can be filtered by values in different columns from within the viewer. • Automatic table totaling - Table data totals are automatically added to the layout. • Propagated filtering - Filter other components by clicking on chart areas or by clicking on pivot table header, column, or elements. • Collapse and expand areas of the document. Solar Array Design Tools.
3.1.2 Prerequisites, Recommendations, and Limitations • To use the layout editor, your account must be granted a role that includes the appropriate permissions for accessing report layout tools. • You must attach sample data to the data model before you create a new layout. For information on adding sample data to the data model, see the ' section in. • For optimum viewing, set your display resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher. • For enabling interactive sorting and filtering, the complete data set that is passed to the layout should be limited to several thousand rows to achieve a responsive report. BI Publisher layouts have a comparable performance to RTF layouts for generating static output such as PDF or RTF documents.