EPRCS Series: Tips & Tricks: Does your doclet generate overlapped preview?

 Working on Narrative Reporting Tool with word format can be tricky. Does your preview overlap and look like this?

It is merging two doclets due to incorrect formatting. Let us fix this:

1. Open the doclet > Check Out

2. Simple trick is to insert a textbox to easily move the content around the doclet.

3. Format the textbox as shown below to make it invisible and appear as a part of the doclet

4. Layout for the textbox:

 

5. Embed the content/table/referenced ranges inside the textbox

6. Check-in

7. Preview the report again:

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EPRCS Series : Uploading Additional Fonts

 Oracle recommends uploading any custom fonts or additional fonts to the EPRCS cloud instance to generate a pixel-perfect 'preview'. 

On the reference doclet click on "Valdiate Fonts" and view the warning.

Only .ttf are supported. You can upload as follows

1. Go to Library > Fonts

2. You can create a separate folder to organize it

3. Select the TTF file or zip file and upload.

If there are any duplicates it will warn and import the rest of the fonts. 

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