Since then, it has been integrated into many Oracle products, including JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.
The layout editor is written in DHTML (Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language) As with Rich Text Format templates, Reports created in the web-based layout editor are transformed into XSL stylesheets and can be viewed in the same output formats.
BI Publisher templates can be designed in Adobe Acrobat 5.0 and above, utilizing the native form field capabilities.
In addition to using the tools mentioned above, users can also upload existing XSL stylesheets to run with BI Publisher.
While the previous version allowed the simple addition through a UI, linking of queries required the creation of an XML configuration file.