BI Publisher 10g - Activate Debug Mode

Troubleshooting: that day will surely come, no matter which application you're using.
For BI Publisher, one of the best troubleshooting tools is the debug mode. This activates detailed logs and temporary files, which allow

How to activate the debug mode


1) Login in BI Publisher with an administrator user

2) Go to Admin tab > System Maintenance > Server Configuration 
3) In the General Properties section, change the Debug Level value to Debug 
4) In the Output Formats section, select all output formats by checking all boxes
5) Click the Apply button
6) Check the confirmation message at the top left of the screen:

Confirmation Settings saved successfully. Any changes will not take effect until the application is restarted.

7) Inside the BI Publisher installation folder, create a subfolder called xmlpdebug (this will be used to hold xdo.log and other debug files)
8) Create a new file called xmlpdebug.cfg with the following content:

LogLevel=DEBUG LogDir=C:\BIPublisher\xmlpdebug

9) Place this file inside the JRE lib folder of the JVM in use by BI Publisher (example: C:\Java64bit\jdk1.6.0_37\jre\lib)
10) Restart BI Publisher
11) Now, open the BI Publisher login page and check the bottom right information. You should be able to see the version and the build number.