Port Setting in BIPublisher 10 G standalone

 This article is dealing only with BIP Standalone and reader should not get confused with OBIEE+BIPublisher Port setting.


1. Locate the default-web-site.xml file.

Note:  Usually the path is like oc4j home/j2ee/home/config/default-web-site.xml. OC4J reads this file when it starts up.

2. Open the file in text editor. In this file you can see the default port which had been set during the installation. Change the port value to thee desired port number.

3. Stop then Start the OC4J server.

4. Log into the application with new port number.

I came across this when I wanted to set my BIP's port to 80 but OC4J was not starting up when I tried to start after editing the port number. When I gave port number as 8080 it started up and I was able to access the application.

The possible reasons is, there are some other applications in my machine which requires a server and it might be creating a clash. Anyway my experiment continues.

BI Publisher Parameters in the URL

Through this post am discussing about the parameters specified in the report link / URL

Consider a URL like this

http://<ip/address>:<Port>/xmlpserver/Sales/Sales+Report/Sales+Report.xdo?_xpf=&_xpt=1&_xdo=%2FSales%2FSales+Report%2FSales+Report.xdo&Id=1-104x&_xt=Standard&_xf=html

The URL after the report name consists of:

?_xpf=&_xpt=1&_xdo=%2FSales%2FSales+Report%2FSales+Report.xdo&Id=1-104x&_xt=Standard&_xf=html

Note the following standard URL syntax:

? - The first parameter is added with a question mark in the beginning.

& - Additional parameters have to be specified like this.

The BI Publisher parameters are as follows:

_xpf - Its an application internal string. Not to be used by the developer.
_xpt - Chooses the report rendering way or style.

    0 - uses the BI Publisher window (iFrame)

    1- renders just the document

_xdo - Provides the path to the current report. To be note that it is not mandatory to give this parameter.

dept - Report specific parameter that we created in the report.

_xt - Specifies the template to be used. Usually for the reports which have more than one templates.

_xf - Controls format of the output file. Accepted values are: pdf, html, excel, rtf, or data.