Here is my first blog on BI Publisher. After working for years in Oracle BIEE of
different versions, I got an opportunity to work in BI Publisher 11g now.
To start with I install Oracle BI Publisher 11g Trial
Edition (v11.1.1.7.1) on my 64 bit windows machine – All good. Then I went on installing the Oracle BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.7.0 for 64 bit Office
on Windows, unfortunately, the installation asked to install a 32 bit
version of the BI Publisher Desktop. I
suspect it could be due to the version of the Microsoft office tools.
I then downloaded the below desktop version and tried
installing - Oracle BI Publisher Desktop 11.1.1.7.0 for 32 bit Office
on Windows.
The installation successfully completed in less than 2 minutes, but I
could not see the BI Publisher plug-in on the windows document. I tried installing different versions of
Oracle BI Publisher Desktop, but no luck
I finally find a way !!
All we need to do is to navigate to the below path and run
the setup.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Oracle\BI Publisher\BI Publisher
Desktop\DotNetInstallFiles (This path
could be different for your installation)
In few seconds you will notice the BI Publisher add-in available on your MS Word or MS Excel office tools.
