XML Publisher in Peoplesoft

Introduction to peoplesoft XML publisher

• XMl publisher is a peopletools and it is not dependent on windows whereas crystal reports is dependent on windows.
• XML publisher we can run online and batch server both.
• As we know batch server we can run through process scheduler and online processing through application server.

XML publisher phases:

• setup XML  publisher
• create and register data source
• create and upload template
• create XML publisher report
• Run and view XML publisher report.

Sub template:

• start and end template indicators must exist to distinguish those various component.
• within a single sub template file, multiple sub template component can available.

XML Classes:

• PSXP_XMLGEN
• PSXP_RPTDEFNMANAGER
• PSXP_ENGINE
• PSXP_REPORTMGR