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BI Publisher – Editable PDF reports

While I was experimenting with Siebel and BI Publisher integration, I found that no mather which properties I’ve set in the Runtime Configuration, I was not allowed to update form fields in my PDF reports generated by BI Publisher.

It turned out that BI Publisher standard sets all fields of a PDF report to readonly. The PDF template is filled in with data coming from Siebel but when the report is generated, all form fiels are readonly.

To change this behaviour, you only have to create a new configuration file overwriting the standard settings. This configuration file is named xdo.cfg and has to be saved under <JRE_TOP>/jre/lib
Remark: no default configuration file is provided

The configuration file with the propertie to make all PDF report fields editable should look like this:

<config version=”1.0.0″
xmlns=”http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/config/”>
<!– Properties –>
<properties>
<!– PDF Security –>
<property name=”all-field-readonly”>false</property>
</properties>
</config>

Once the file is in place, the only thing left to do is restarting BI Publisher.