Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud What s New in the March Update (17.03) February 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS REVISION HISTORY... 3 ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, MARCH UPDATE... 4 ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEW FEATURES... 4 Monthly Update Schedule... 4 New EPM Automate Utility Version... 4 Activity Report Now Includes Smart View Version Information... 4 Translated Help and Guides Now Available... 5 Account Member Property Exchange Rate Type... 5 Working with Metadata... 5 DEFECTS FIXED... 6 2
REVISION HISTORY This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top. Date What's Changed Notes 24 FEB 2017 Initial Document Creation 3
ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, MARCH UPDATE This guide outlines the announcements and fixed issues in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEW FEATURES MONTHLY UPDATE SCHEDULE We would like to inform you of the upcoming monthly update for your Oracle Cloud environments. We will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, March 3, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, March 17, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window. NEW EPM AUTOMATE UTILITY VERSION A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. In this version, replay command has been enhanced to support the replay of Financial Reporting report launch loads on a service instance to enable performance testing under heavy load to verify that user experience is acceptable when the service is under the specified load. You must install this version of the utility to use the new command. See these sections in Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud: Installation instructions: Installing the Utility Instructions to run commands: Command Reference ACTIVITY REPORT NOW INCLUDES SMART VIEW VERSION INFORMATION The Application Activity Report, which presents information on application usage, has been enhanced to include information on the versions of Oracle Smart View that are used to access the application. The report lists Oracle Smart View versions older than 11.1.2.620 as Unknown Version. This enhancement allows users, especially Service Administrators, to ensure that they are using the newest version of Oracle Smart View which incorporates new features and bug fixes. See Viewing Activity Reports in Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud for detailed information on the Application Activity Report. 4
TRANSLATED HELP AND GUIDES NOW AVAILABLE The on-line Help and guides are now translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. You can see the translated guides on the Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Help Center s Translated Books tab. Please note that the translated documentation covers all features up to December 9, 2016, except for Working with Smart View for Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, which covers features up to October 6, 2016. ACCOUNT MEMBER PROPERTY EXCHANGE RATE TYPE Users can now change the Exchange Rate property on a pre-seeded shared member, such as FCCS_Common Stock. Previously, the Exchange Rate property was read-only for pre-seeded members. WORKING WITH METADATA Considerations Be aware of the following considerations: The replace export option will replace all data for the combination of scenario, year, period, entity and data source member. Make sure that users with the Power User role have access to all data for the combination of these dimensions for which they are loading data. You should not make metadata changes that result in the following: o o Making a base member to whom a journal has been posted a parent member Deleting a member If there are journals or Supplemental Data posted to those members, these changes can cause problems when accessing Journals or importing existing journals. When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking Remove Only or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting Keep Only. If a Period member is left on the grid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities. 5
DEFECTS FIXED Defect Number Description 25407637 The Close Manager Reassignment Request window has been enlarged to display all fields correctly. 25407929 You no longer receive the JBO-25303 error when importing a task template to Close Manager. 25452628 In Smart View, you can now submit data from forms or ad hoc grids that contain Dynamic Time Series members. 25369203 In Financial Reporting, the MemberProperty text function now works when used with UDA in a text box. 25351303 In Financial Reporting, the Point of View is now longer misaligned when running a report. 25394079 When running a Financial Reporting book, all dimensions in the Point of View are now displayed correctly. 24789445 When a Financial Reporting report has related content selected and the report is put into a book, the Point of View is now correctly used if the book is run again. 25411844 Images are now correctly aligned in the HTML for Financial Reports. 25369203 The MemberProperty text function now works when used with UDA in a text box. 25300731 When renaming a form, you must give it a unique name. 24903650 Forms no longer display dimension member root aliases in place of formula labels on formula rows. 22934579/ 25102686 Imports using Migration now correctly set hierarchy types for dimensions. 6
Defect Number Description 20835099 Artifacts migration now complete without errors as a part of daily service maintenance. 25386762 The FX calculation in the Movement dimension is now processed correctly when currency overrides are used. 25481545 You are now able to use Migration to create a Data Management backup. 25410048/ 25312113/ 25431378/ 25591593 The service now correctly migrates artifacts to create application snapshots. --- 7
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