Create a Layout Using BI Publisher

Create a Report Using BI Publisher Video

If you have the necessary privileges, you can create BI Publisher-based layouts for reports. Using BI Publisher-based layouts, you can define the look and feel of reports as well as add business data elements and other interactive components to your report. You can define multiple BI Publisher-based layouts for a single report, enabling you to present the same data in different ways. At report runtime, you can select which layout to use to generate your report.

Print layouts must use BI Publisher-based layouts in order to run print layout reports.

Layout Editor Overview

Layouts are created using the BI Publisher Layout Editor. The Layout Editor is a design tool that provides a WYSIWYG drag and drop interface for creating reports and print layouts in various output formats.

When you attempt to create or edit a BI Publisher-based layout in Primavera Cloud, BI Publisher is launched and you are automatically logged in through the Single Sign-On (SSO) process. The data model for the report or print layout is imported into the BI Publisher Layout Editor, where you can use it to create or edit a layout to display report or print layout data.

BI Publisher-based layouts are saved in the Primavera Cloud database and associated with the selected report or print layout. At runtime, you can choose which layout to use to generate the report or print layout.

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