doxxy: document and report generation for oracle made easy
DESCRIPTION
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, ...TRANSCRIPT
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”
