doxxy: document and report generation for oracle made easy

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Doxxy is a RAD-tool for generating operational reports in Oracle. With its intuitive APEX UI, you easily configure your documents by adding DOCX-templates and SQL-queries. You may also define run-time parameters, or PL/SQL processes that may be executed at the begin or end of a report. What version 01.02 is it also possible to add an option to generate PDF-output The tool is especially suitable for usage in Oracle Application Express (APEX). It is built on the same principles and concepts: RAD, easy to learn, easy to use, light-weight, PL/SQL engine, ... Typical documents that you want to generate with docufy are: invoices, orders, letters, reminders, "dossiers", break listings, ...

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Document generation for Oraclemade easy

Agenda

• What and Why?

• Architecture

• Sample

• Demo

• Features

• Pricing

= Document generator for Oracle

What is Doxxy?

Merge your business data with a Word-template (.docx) to create your operational documents like letters, orders,

invoices, …

Why Doxxy?

• As response on recurrent questions by different customers:

Low Price

Simple interface + processing

For simple reports / documents (letters, invoices, …)

Generation to Word (DOCX) and PDF

Template based (can be provided by business user)

Easy to integrate in an Oracle application (e.g. APEX)

Advantages

• Basic merge of data coming from Oracle database

• Pure PL/SQL solution

No complex installation-procedure

• Separation of templates and data

• Layout of report is determined by the possibilities of MS Word

All MS Word options can be used in the template

• Quick and simple

Agenda

• What and Why?

• Architecture

• Sample

• Demo

• Features

• Pricing

Architecture

• INPUT

Data via SQL-statements

Template via DOCX-file

• Processing by Doxxy Engine

Unzip 1-DOCX to n-XML-files

Replace tags by desired data in XML

Pack XML-files to 1-DOCX file

• OUTPUT

BLOB with DOCX-file

Architecture

document.xml

Architecture

Agenda

• What and Why?

• Architecture

• Sample

• Demo

• Features

• Pricing

Sample

Orderconfirmation

• Letter

• Bullet-list

• Table

• Images

• Conditionaldisplay

Agenda

• What and Why?

• Architecture

• Sample

• Demo

• Features

• Pricing

Demo

• Maintain & Define metadata

• Determine layout via Word-templates

• Call document via PL/SQL API from within own application

• See Doxxy at work in a demo application

Maintain Metadata

Define Metadata

MS-Word Template

MS-Word Template

API-CallPL/SQL API: BL$Dg4o_Interface (2 variants)

Other Examples (1/2)

Complete “Dossier” of > 15 pages (see “Inhoudstafel” = TOC)

Other Examples (2/2)

Agenda

• What and Why?

• Architecture

• Sample

• Demo

• Features

• Pricing

Current Features

• APEX UI

• Input data from DB via SQL-statements

• Passing Input parameters

• One query – multiple usages

• Display data in: texts (paragraphs), tables and lists

• Nested master-detail structures

• Conditional display of text and data

• Images: as fixed in the template and as from the database (resize possible)

Extra Features

• Execute PL/SQL-blocks

• Export and import multiple documents via XML-files

• Print Metadata-fiche

• Visualise (and validate) MS-Word template

• Maintain private synonyms in Doxxy schema(only sysdadmin user)

• Generate to PDF (extra option)

Agenda

• What and Why?

• Architecture

• Sample

• Demo

• Features

• Pricing

Pricing

• Trial version: Free

• No support

• Perpetual licence by database instance: 1500€

+ annual maintenance fee: 300€ (by year / instance)

• Extra Options / features: 500€ licence

• + annual maintenance fee: 100 € (by year / instance)

• E.g. “Print To PDF”

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