Use the Print Management tab to generate printable transactions in Bill Presentment Architecture (BPA). You can print a single transaction or a batch of transactions. You can also print BPA transactions from Forms-based applications such as Oracle Receivables.
When you create a template, you assign a page setup that determines the page size, margins, and font used for the printed transaction.
When you run a print request, BPA generates a PDF file for each group of transactions, which is stored as the output file of the print request concurrent program.
Note: BPA also generates a PDF file for a bill when you click Print in Interactive Preview for a template.
The Bill Presentment All request group is associated with responsibilities for Bill Presentment Architecture (BPA) and contains two concurrent programs:
BPA Transaction Print Program: This program launches one child print program for each print job instance requested. The child program generates a PDF file for each transaction to be printed.
The transaction print program provides an additional parameter for Invoice Print Master Program that allows users to specify the locale used by XML Publisher. XML Publisher uses this parameter to decide number and date format. If an item is not formatted at data source level, XML Publisher will format it based on this locale as well as the format information in the template. If this parameter is not passed, BPA will look for the language of the bill to site and convert it to locale and use that information.
If you want to use an Oracle Receivables responsibility to run the BPA Transaction Print Program, then add this program to the AR request group for the responsibility. For further information see: Oracle Applications System Administrator's Guide.
BPA Balance Forward Print Program: This program launches a child print program for each balance forward bill print job requested.
Generate Stylesheet for BPA Templates: This program runs automatically when you change the status of a template to Complete. It generates XSL formatting object files (.xsl-fo) that contain PDF formatting information used for printed bills.
You must run this program manually when you install BPA. See Generating Stylesheets