Business Intelligence Publisher Functions

May 13th, 2012 MindLeaks
Business Intelligence Publisher Functions

Business Intelligence Publisher functions are very similar to other functions that are commonly used in SQL query or MS Excel reporting. Functions like SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MAXIMUM and MINIMUM can be also utilize when developing BI Publisher templates for report. With proper usage Business Intelligence Publisher functions is a powerful tool, just like its counterpart in SQL query and MS Excel formula.

To fully explain its usage, we need to have a sample XML file where we can test our demonstrations and examples. The following XML structure and data below will be used for demonstrations stated in this articles. Note [...] Continue Reading…

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Rounded Corners – Border-radius in CSS

May 2nd, 2012 MindLeaks
Border-radius - CSS3

Creating a rounded corners box in the web page has always been a little tricky task for a web designer. Due of the reason that it is not supported in CSS, the web designer need to make a four DIV tags nested together, with each one of the tag bearing an image with curve corner in order to simulate the four a rounded corners of the box. You may disagree but it sure looks like a dirty trick.

Then came the Cascading Stylesheet 3, with it is the solution in creating a rounded corners using CSS. It is simple enough [...] Continue Reading…

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Little Blue Man Icon in Google Search Result

April 29th, 2012 MindLeaks
The little blue man icon

Have you been using the Google Search before and notice that there is a little blue man icon in one of your search result? Well, it means the Search Plus Your World is enabled in your Google account. It is the new thing from Google for this year. The little blue man icon is the indicator that Search Plus Your World is giving you a personalized results.

What is a personalized results?
Before, when you use the Google Search, you will get results from across the web. Google Search will not give you information that is related to you on purpose. [...] Continue Reading…

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Adding Google Plus Button to Your Web Page

April 21st, 2012 MindLeaks

Google Plus is one of the latest thing in the internet today. It was created to provide us with means to showcase ourselves, to get connected with the online community and apparently to compete with Facebook. The last one is just a theory but who cares. This article will discuss about adding Google Plus Button to the web page. So let’s drop the other reasons and focused on getting connected with the online community.

For the new guys in blogging, you probably wonder how to integrate the Google Plus button in your site. Of course you can search it with [...] Continue Reading…

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Creating a Simple RTF Template for BI Publisher

April 15th, 2012 MindLeaks

True to its name, creating a simple RTF template in BI Publisher is, well, pretty simple. This BI Publisher tutorial will demonstrate the step by step process of doing it.

To be able to follow this clearly you must have at least a basic familiarity of BI Publisher and in using the MS Word add-on to generate the RTF template.

To begin, below is the XML data used by this demonstration.

XML data used in BI Publisher simple report demo.

The sample XML data, as displayed in the image above, are having four fields in each row.

Now let’s do [...] Continue Reading…

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