BI Publisher provides client side tools to aid in the building and testing of layout templates. This consists of a plugin to MS Word for the building of RTF templates and the Template Viewer, this helps you to test and debug all BI Publisher template types. The client side tools can be downloaded from the edelivery web site or via metalink.
Creating a Report with the Word Template Builder
This flash demo shows how easy it is to create report layouts using the Word Template Builder. It shows how to create a report using grouping and how to add a cover page with charts.
Localization in BI Publisher
This flash demo shows the superior localization and translation capabilities of BI Publisher, including CJK language and bidirectional support using the Word Template Builder.
Blog Articles
Blog article highlights relevant to template building, all include sample code and templates with detailed explanation of features
OMR Marks
How to add those marks to your output so your paper folding machine knows what to do ...
Anatomy of a Template Parts I, II and III
Its a template autopsy, we take a complete invoice template with all the bells and whistles, break it down into its constituent parts and put it back together again.
Charts I, II and III
Everything you wanted to know and more about how to add them, tweak them and get them working in your templates
Formatting HTML
Do your users enter data with a rich text editor and your app then stores it as HTML. Here's how to format that data as the user intended
Formatting & Calculating Dates
Formatting and calculating dates in your templates explained