If you login into the INTERNAL workspace in APEX and go to Manage Environment Settings - Instance Settings and go to the Report Printing section, you'll see following screen:
If you then click on the Print Server label, you'll see following text:
"Select the appropriate option:
I didn't notice that before, but if you read it carefully it says "if you are using the free version of Oracle BI Publisher"!? I didn't know there was a free version? Is Oracle going to announce a free version or is it just a mistake in the documentation/help?
It would be really cool if they announced a free version of a fantastic tool as BIP on OOW ;-)
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Free Oracle BI Publisher with APEX?
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Nice finding... That would be great news :)
Sorry to disappoint you:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=486675&start=0&tstart=0
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No - that is not what we meant to imply (will need to fix that). For Standard Support, you can use BI Publisher (with a valid license) or another, standard XSL-FO processing engine. For Advanced Support, you MUST have BI Publisher (with a valid license).
See also this article on setting up PDF printing in APEX:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/configure_printing.html
Hi Dimitri,
I'll give you a definitive response - there are no plans to provide a free version of Oracle BI Publisher with Oracle Application Express. This is a bug in the item-level help text which will be fixed in the next release of Oracle Application Express.
Joel
Thanks Joel. I didn't expect it, but we may always dream ;-)
I think Oracle should consider this as free one day:
http://garethroberts.blogspot.com/2008/09/top-7-reasons-for-free-version-of-bi.html
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