Oracle Report Manager - What are the Leading Prac6ces for It's Configura6on and U6liza6on? Session ID#: 14984

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1 Oracle Report Manager - What are the Leading Prac6ces for It's Configura6on and U6liza6on? Session ID#: Prepared by: Lee Briggs Prac1ce Director, Financials Management REMINDER Check in on the COLLABORATE mobile app

2 Session Housekeeping Please check in at this session on the Collaborate App Please set your cellphones to silent mode

3 Agenda About the Presenter Company Informa1on What is Report Manager? Configura1ons Crea1ng an Excel Template (and Leading Prac1ces) Report Manager Security Crea1ng Consumer Access

4 What is Report Manager? Let s start with what Report Manager is NOT: NOT intended to be a mass Print Job tool NOT intended to be an ASachment for tool NOT intended to be used by accoun1ng team for reconcilia1on purposes It is intended to be used as a Central Online Repository for Repor1ng, or, to put it another way It s designed to save trees

5 Report Manager: Overview Online report distribu1on system Secure and centralized loca1on to produce and manage reports. Enables submission and publica1on of Financial Statement Generator (FSG) Ad hoc FSG Variable Format Reports Standard Reports Permits report availability in a future 1meframe Accessible by ANY user using a web browser Provides ability to upload ANY type of file to a central repository

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7 Report Manager User Types Producers Consumers

8 Responsibility By default Report Manager Access is NOT assigned to a responsibility A new responsibility may be created OR the func1ons to access the menu items must be assigned to an exis1ng responsibility

9 Define the Menu Menu: Report Manager Super User User Menu Name: Select a user defined menu name. Menu Type: Standard Add the following Func1ons to the menu: Financial Report Template Editor Financial Report Submission Standard Report Submission Repository Management FSG Drilldown Launch Page FSG Drilldown: Select Content Set Rows FSG Drilldown: Effec1ve Range Selec1on Page FSG Drilldown: Balance Inquiry Page Account Analysis and Drilldown Report Set Publish Report Set Publishing Op1ons Request Set Publish Request Set Publishing Op1ons Security Workbench

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11 Define a Responsibility Define a responsibility for Report Manager Super User This should have the Data Group as Standard. In the Available From field check the radio buson for Oracle Self Services Web Applica1ons. The menu name should be the one that was defined in the last step on Menu Defini1on. The request group should be GL Concurrent Program Group for the applica1on General Ledger. This is to ensure that the reports available to the General Ledger responsibility are also available through Report Manager.

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13 To create a report template using Report Manager Log in to Report Manager. Select Financial Report Template Editor. The Financial Statement Generator Templates page appears. Select the report that you created from the Report Name LOV. Select the Create New radio button. Select a language. Select Excel Template Editor from the Editor LOV. Select Create. A message appears indicating the report template is being created. After the confirmation message appears, select Return. Your report template appears in a separate Excel spreadsheet.

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16 Standard Excel FormaUng

17 Upload the template

18 Leading Practices for FSG Formatting Before you start to use Report Manager, decide a Corporate Theme, and s1ck with it Logo? Font? Font Size? Colors (RGB is your best friend)

19 Leading Practices for FSG Formatting Minimize the forma^ng in the FSG defini1on Before Report Manager, you could only show underlining by inser1ng - or = characters between rows In Report Manager, this will display as a cell with - or = (which looks really ugly) Instead, use cell border func1onality to add an underline or doubleunderline

20 Report Manager Security Security Workbench allows you to allow specific users to see segments in your chart of accounts Let s consider an FSG which has a content set asached to it. Content set will display a separate copy of the report for each Company in the Chart of Accounts Vision Opera1ons only wants to run the report once, but is concerned that users only see Departments that they are responsible for User TESTUSER should only see Departments 100, 110, 120 and 130

21 Security Workbench Can be used to secure specific COA values from users

22 In the above screenshot we can see that the user TESTUSER has been assigned viewer privileges to the values 100, 110, 120, 130. This means that this user can view the report output for these values only.

23 While submi^ng the report you need to men1on the security type that you want to apply to this report. This is how you select the exact security models you want to submit your report with during the report submission.

24 Report Manager Security Leading Practice Depending on the number of Segment Values, you may need to update a profile op1on to get Report Manager Security to work correctly Compare the value for FND: View Object Max Size against the number of segment values Leading Prac1ce Set this to at least the number of values in your largest non-natural Account Segment (at the Report Manager applica1on level)

25 Report Manager Security Gotcha! When security doesn t seem to work for you.. Check ADI: Allow sysadmin to view all output Even though the profile says SYSADMIN, it affects any user with System Administrator responsibility.

26 Consumer Access How can Consumers get access to these reports? 1 solution is to give them Report Manager responsibility This is generally frowned upon This responsibility has access to Repository Maintenance Leading Practice solution is to create a new Consumer responsibility, and publish reports directly to the navigator.

27 Creation of Consumer Menu and Responsibility Create Consumer Menu Only needs 5 functions, none of which are visible to the user User Func6on Name Account Analysis and Drilldown FSG Drilldown: Launch Page FSG Drilldown: Select Content Set Rows FSG Drilldown: Effec1ve Range Selec1on Page FSG Drilldown: Balance Inquiry Page Func6on Name GL_INQ_SEARCH GL_INQ_FSG_DRL_LAUNCH GL_INQ_FSG_DRL_CONTENT GL_INQ_FSG_DRL_EFF_RNG GL_INQ_FSG_DRL_BAL_INQ

28 Creation of Consumer Menu and Responsibility

29 Creation of Consumer Menu and Responsibility Create Consumer Responsibility, using Consumer menu Don t forget to assign MO:Operating Unit and GL: Ledger Name profiles Additionally, add any MOAC profile settings Assign the Responsibility to a Single User (for setups)

30 Creation of Consumer Menu and Responsibility

31 Creation of Consumer Menu and Responsibility If you try to switch to this responsibility now, you ll get an error:

32 Publish a Financial Report Directly to the Consumer Responsibility (Step 1)

33 Publish a Financial Report Directly to the Consumer Responsibility (Step 2)

34 Publish a Financial Report Directly to the Consumer Responsibility (Step 3)

35 Publish a Financial Report Directly to the Consumer Responsibility (Step 4) This is the important slide!

36 Publish a Financial Report Directly to the Consumer Responsibility (Step 5)

37 Publish a Financial Report Directly to the Consumer Responsibility Don t look at the output yet!! Repeat this one time for each report you want to make available to this responsibility Once completed, bounce Apache (or use Functional Administrator to clear cache) Now switch responsibilities

38 Viewing Reports from Consumer responsibility

39 Using Consumer Responsibility After you ve run each report once (and bounced Apache), every time you re-run the report, it automatically shows up

40 Features in 12.1 Forward Viewing Output Icons (Rather than just lists) Logo ASachment in Excel is Supported New requests Report Manager FO Generator Program (FO Generator) This request is required for HTML output

41 Viewing Output Icons (Rather than just lists)

42 Collaborative SIG Session ID CS-Part I The Repor1ng Conundrum? How to Solve the Repor1ng Needs of a Mul1na1onal CS-Part II ADI and Report Manager how they help in providing a solu1on to a repor1ng need CS-Part III BI Publisher and APEX repor1ng capabili1es CS-Part IV Business Intelligence to the fore for Dashboards and Management repor1ng CS-Part V Hyperion the financial planning and budge1ng tool with repor1ng capabili1es CS-Part VI The External Repor1ng Eco- System which Completes the E-Business Suite Integra1on Session Date and Time Room Wed Apr 9, Thurs Apr 10, 8:30 AM Level 1 Marco Polo :00 AM 2:00 PM 8:30 AM Level 1 Marco Polo 805 9:45 AM 11:00 AM

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