Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Training

Primavera P6 BI Publisher Fundamentals for Oracle 11g

Duration: 3-days Prerequisites: Primavera P6 Project Management Experience. Experience working with data files and other report writers would be desirable. Requirements: BI Publisher for Oracle 11g, Primavera P6 EPPM P6R8 (need admin rights), SQL Developer, Email Server setup within BIP, WORD with BIP add-on.

Course Description
This course covers the fundamentals of designing and creating reports using BI Publisher for P6R8.x. This course is a hands-on class with approximately 25 student exercises which will allow the students to explore and use power features in BI Publisher. At the end of the class, students will be able to design, create and publish BI Publisher reports from scratch.

Course Outline Chapter 1 Introduction

Introduction to BIP Login Navigating BIP Introduction to Administration Menu Introduction to Data Model Editor Introduction to Reports Layout Editor Introduction to Report Jobs

Chapter 2 Introduction to Data Model Editor

Data Models Overview Properties Datasets Query Builder List of Values Parameters XML Sample Data Downloading then Uploading XML Data into Data Model

Chapter 3 Introduction to Report Layout Editor

Overview Creating a Report Report Editor Layout Editor Adding Grids Introduction to Text Item, Labels and Data Fields Introduction to Data Tables Introduction to Charts Defaults Parameters

Chapter 4 Report File Management

Overview Catalogs Copy Rename Download Upload Other

Chapter 5 Introduction to P6 Tables/Synonyms

Extended Tables P6 Synonyms (P6Project, P6Activities, P6ActivityCodeAssignment, P6ActivitySpread, etc.) Review Fields/Columns

Chapter 6 Introduction to SQL

Introduction SQL Developer SQL Overview Basics SELECT, FROM WHERE and JOIN types SUM, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, calculations Other functions (TO_CHAR, NVL) Accumulating Values Nested JOINS Review and more examples

Chapter 7 More on the Data Model Editor

Building Datasets with SQL Event Triggers Flexfields Bursting Other sources of Data (XML, EXCEL, Web Services, etc.) Review and more examples

Chapter 8 More on the Report Layout Editor

Changing Data Model Formulas More on Data Tables More on Charts Pivot Table List Repeating Section Gauge Image Review and more examples

Chapter 9 Report Jobs

Overview General Output Schedule Jobs Notification

Chapter 10 Building Reports with MS WORD

Introduction Another option for building reports in RTF format Overview not an in-depth discussion

Chapter 11 Publishing Data from P6

Overview Administrator/Application Settings Administrator/Global Scheduled Services Projects/Publishing Parameters Running Reports from P6

To learn more about this class, please contact Ten Six Consulting (703) 910-2600 or email us at training@tensixconsulting.com