This would be very helpful for Ceridian tax filing and other vendor delivered integrations. We deliver multiple Data Models and Reports with the Ceridian integration. If clients unarchive this, and many do, to a different folder in the Shared/Custom folder, all Reports must be manually updated. The same would be true for…

Not sure if either of these XSL features would work in RTF templates, but we use characters maps and encoding to remove non-ASCII characters from the Ceridian tax filing extract. The character maps replace specific non-ASCII characters with equivalent ASCII characters. The encoding removes non-ASCII characters not mapped…

Have you used the Analysis Table View Properties "Row Styling/Repeat cell values" or the "Value Suppression > Repeat" Column Property? These properties will have the data repeat in the Analysis table and the exported data will also included the repeated values.

Content Server has been added to BIP as a Data Source type but it only works with text files.

Better SQL query tools would greatly improve reporting capabilities. We use delivered (payroll) HCM Extracts and at times need to add data that is not available in the delivered Extract XML file. The extra data is added by adding additional SQL queries to the BIP Report Data Model. Developing the SQL queries needed with…

When you say local templates do you mean running the BIP XSLT template at a Java command line? Or something else? If you are running the template using Java you need to make sure you have several of the .jar files included with the BI Publisher Desktop Tool in you classpath. orai18n-collation.jar orai18n-mapping.jar…