The Oracle XML Publisher Report Designer's Guide provides instructions for designing report layout templates. It includes the following chapters:

Oracle XML Publisher Report Designer's Guide

Creating an RTF Template - describes how to use your word processing application in conjunction with your report XML file to create a customized template for the report.

Creating a PDF Template - describes how to use Adobe Acrobat in conjunction with your report XML file to create a customized template in PDF.

Creating an eText Template - describes how to create a table-based template to comply with EDI and EFT file specifications. These templates are processed by the eText Processing Engine to create flat text files for exchange with business partners.

XML Publisher Extended Functions - lists SQL and XSL functions that XML Publisher has extended.

Supported XSL-FO Elements - lists the FO elements supported by the XML Publisher engines.

Oracle XML Publisher Administration and Developer's Guide

This guide includes information on setting up XML Publisher, running reports, using the data engine, and leveraging the APIs.

Using the Template Manager - (pertains to E-Business Suite customers only) describes how to register your Oracle report as a data definition and upload your templates to the Template Manager .

Generating Your Customized Output - (pertains to E-Business Suite customers only) describes how to submit your report request using the concurrent manager to generate output in your customized template.

Administration - describes the Administration interface that allows you to set configuration properties, upload fonts, create font mappings, and create currency mappings.

Data Template - describes how to write a template to extract XML data using XML Publisher's data engine.

Calling XML Publisher APIs - describes how to leverage XML Publisher's processing engines via APIs.

Delivery Manager - describes how to use XML Publisher's Delivery Manager APIs to deliver your documents via multiple channels, and how to create a custom channel.

Integrating the Document Viewer into an Application - describes how to implement XML Publisher's document viewer, an Oracle Applications Framework component, in an application.

Moving Templates and Data Definitions Between E-Business Suite Instances - describes how to use the FNDLOAD and XDOLoader utilities to move your XML Publisher objects between test, development, and production instances.

XML Publisher Configuration File - describes how to set up a configuration file to set the Administration properties.

Moving Templates and Data Definitions Between E-Business Suite Instances - describes how to use FNDLOAD and XDOLoader utilities to help manage the movement of XML Publisher data between instances.