report manager in oracle ebs r12
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A deep dive into the Report Manager functionality of Oracle EBS R12TRANSCRIPT
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A Hitchhikers Guide toOracle Report Manager in R12
Prepared by:Prithis DasDynamique Solutions LLC
Session ID#: 13976
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Presenter’s background
■ Over 18 years in the Oracle EBS sphere■ Over 22 years of business process improvement experience■ Consulting experience with Big 5 and other major
organizations■ Oracle Certified Specialist in General Ledger■ Chartered Accountant and Management Accountant from
India■ Authored and presented papers on SLA, Web ADI, Reports
Manager at several OAUG and local events■ Currently on a major R12 upgrade■ Contact:
▪ Cell: 630.3649457
▪ Email: [email protected]
▪ Web: Dynamiquesolutionsllc.com
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Agenda
■ Objectives■ Case Study Company Background■ Reporting background■ Report Manager features■ What Report Manager does not do■ Setup Considerations■ Quick Tutorial■ Security in Oracle Report Manager■ Using Report Manager – Tips■ Using Report Manager – Tricks■ Traps■ Lessons learned
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■ Provide useful information for R12 implementation teams for implementation of Oracle General Ledger, Financial Statement Generator and Report Manager
■ Inform users about new R12 Report Manager features■ Help avoid potential pitfalls using actual experience from
implementing Report Manager
Objectives
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■ Auto Salvage Company■ New implementation of R12 ■ Started April 2007 with very early releases of R12■ General Ledger, Payables, Assets, Cash Management,
Advanced Global Intercompany System■ 120+ Legal Entities■ Six regional accounting centers■ Complex reporting requirements■ 400+ legacy reports using best-of-breed reporting tool
Case Study Company Background
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■ Complex reporting requirements■ 400+ legacy financial reports using dedicated reporting tool■ Typical Trial Balance took over 15 minutes to generate■ Legacy Reports in Excel, and included publishing features
such as fonts, bold and underlining■ Lack of security – Users were able to access all reports
across legal entities
Reporting Background
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■ Report Manager is an integral part of Oracle EBS■ Assumes implementation of Oracle General Ledger
incorporating Financial Statement Generator (FSG)■ Provides an online repository to store and access financial
reports■ Personalized look and feel on financial reports■ Reports can be submitted and accessed through Web
browser. Users can be given access to Report Manager only without the need to open up Java forms.
■ Incorporates security rules to restrict access to published content
Report Manager features
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What Report Manager does not do
■ You cannot create FSG components (Row Sets, Column Sets etc) in Report Manager. These will need to be created through standard FSG
■ Excel outputs from Report Manager will not incorporate Excel formulas
■ Excel templates do not save all formatting options■ Works well with FSG reports. However Standard reports in
Oracle will have formatting issues
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Setup Considerations
■ Patchset level – Metalink 726958.1 (15 Jan 2014)■ Check for latest before implementation
▪ Release 12.2 (R12.FRM.C patches)
▪ Release 12.1.3 (R12.FRM.B patches)
▪ Release 12.0 (R12.FRM.A)
▪ Release 11i (FRM.H)
■ Note 1077728.1 : Report Manager users must use Internet Explorer for full functionality
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Setup Considerations
■ Report Manager uses Self Service Workflow Applications■ Report Manager requires the BNE platform used by Web ADI■ Functional Dependencies
▪ FSGs should have been defined in GL
▪ Standard reports should be assigned to Request Group assigned to the Report Manager
■ Custom menu and responsibility for Report Manager■ Browser and Excel settings■ Seeded template vs Custom templates
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Custom menu and responsibility
■ Pre-defined menus for Report Manager are not complete▪ “FRM_SECURITY_MENU” menu is pre-defined but not
adequate
■ Need to define/assign additional functions to custom menu (or the GL_SUPERUSER” menu:▪ Financial Report Template Editor
▪ Financial Report Submission
▪ Standard Report Submission
▪ Variable Report Submission
▪ Repository Management
▪ Report Set Publish
▪ Request Set Publish
▪ Request View
▪ Security Workbench
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Custom menu and responsibility
■ To enable Drilldown you must also assign the following functions to the custom menu ▪ Account Analysis and Drilldown (Search Page)
▪ Account Analysis and Drilldown (Product Branding)
▪ FSG Drilldown: Launch Page
▪ FSG Drilldown: Select Content Set Rows
▪ FSG Drilldown: Effective Range Selection Page
▪ FSG Drilldown: Balance Inquiry Page
■ For each of them choose the Function Name value without "_G"
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Custom menu and responsibility
■ Create custom menu for Report Manager▪ System Administrator > Application > Menu
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Custom menu and responsibility
■ Add this menu as a sub-menu to the GL_SUPERUSER responsibility or a custom responsibility
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Browser and Excel Settings
■ Works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape▪ See Metalink 389422.1 for latest browser requirements
■ Internet Explorer Settings▪ Navigate to Tools -> Internet Options and choose the Security
tab
▪ Select Local Intranet and choose the Custom Level button.
▪ Set the following option to Prompt.— Initialize and script Active X controls not marked as safe
■ Excel Settings▪ Open Excel, Go to Tools -> Macro -> Security -> Trusted
Sources
▪ Check the "Trust access to Visual Basic Project“
■ Incorrect settings will lead to error
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Quick Tutorial
■ Create a Template■ Submit a single FSG report■ Monitor Request and View Output■ Submit a Request Set
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Quick Tutorial
■ Create a Custom Template▪ Select Financial Report Template Editor
▪ Select a Report, Select Excel Template Editor, Click on Create
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Quick Tutorial
■ Create a Template▪ Confirm ActiveX control interaction by clicking on Yes, if
prompted
Excel template gets created with FSG components
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Quick Tutorial
■ Create a Template▪ Personalize template with fonts, graphics etc, then upload to
Oracle
Use Oracle menu to upload modified template to Oracle
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Quick Tutorial
■ Create a Template▪ Name the template, select Drill option, Upload.
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Quick Tutorial
■ Create a Template▪ Name the template, select Drill option, Upload.
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Quick Tutorial
■ Run a Report▪ Select Financial Report Submission
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Quick Tutorial
■ Run a Report▪ Select the new template, add parameters, Submit.
Select your template
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Quick Tutorial
■ Run a Report▪ Monitor Requests, View Output
View Output
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Quick Tutorial
■ Run a Report▪ Publish Report in Excel
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Quick Tutorial
■ Financial Report drilldown▪ Double-click on an amount in the report to view the details of
transactions totaling the amount displayed
▪ Can update some of the drilldown parameters, if desired
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Quick Tutorial
■ Reports Repository▪ All reports submitted through Report Manager are stored in the
reports repository
▪ Allows an organization to:— Organize and view completed reports
— Update publishing and security options for completed reports
— Archive and delete reports
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Quick Tutorial
■ Reports Repository menu opens the Repository
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Security in Report Manager■ Report Manager offers 4 security options:
▪ No Security— Individual user access to reports is determined by assigned
responsibility
▪ Flexfield Value Security— Standard flexfield value security (GL Security Rules or Data Access
Sets) is attached to a responsibility and applied to publishing and viewing financial reports
▪ User to Value Security— Security can be defined in Oracle Report Manager to control access
to secured financial reports
▪ PL/SQL Based Security— Create and apply custom security suited to an organization’s specific
needs
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Using Report Manager – Tips
■ Create and Test your financial report on standard FSG, and then publish the report using Report Manager
■ Do not waste time over column heading formatting in Apps■ Use the Generic FSG template wherever possible. If you use
custom templates, each template is associated with a single report
■ Report Set considerations▪ Report Sets can only be submitted through standard FSG
submission
▪ Responsibility submitting Report Set must be the same that is publishing it
■ Use Repository Maintenance to avoid tablespace issues▪ Apply Patch first (Metalink 803014.1)
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Using Report Manager – Tricks
■ Use Report Manager templates directly from FSG submission▪ Users are familiar with the Request submission functionality
■ Schedule your month-end reports to publish automatically▪ Use standard scheduling functionality
■ Store Excel settings on custom Excel templates▪ Cell background color
▪ Cell / Text font
▪ Cell alignment
▪ Cell Border
▪ Cell Merge
▪ Underline
▪ Page Settings:— a. Orientation (Portrait / Landscape)
— b. Paper Size
— c. Width of Page
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Using Report Manager – Tricks (contd.)
■ Display the Description column in the middle of the report
Description column in the middle of a wide report
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Using Report Manager – Tricks (contd.)■ Display the Description column in the middle of the report
▪ Create a Custom Template
▪ Use the Menu (Oracle > FSG Template > Move Line Items Right)
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Using Report Manager – Tricks (contd.)■ Use Report Manager templates directly from FSG submission
Before submission, select a template, and set Format = EXCEL. View Output will open the output in Excel, using the template
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Using Report Manager – Tricks (contd.)
■ Use Report Manager templates directly from FSG submission▪ Use XML Publisher Responsibility
▪ Copy the “Generic FSG Template”, update the Data Definition to “FSGXML program”. Attach custom template file if required.
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Traps
■ Repository Maintenance could lead to disappearing menus▪ Patch 6884665 if on R 11i
▪ Patch 6884280 if on R 12 (Metalink 803014.1)
■ Can submit Report Set only from Java form▪ Need to update Output Option to XML for each report
■ Mix-up of Request Set submission vs Report Set submission menu items▪ “Report Set” on Java form, but “Request Set” in Report Manager
■ Printing XML file if Profile Option Number of Copies is set to 1▪ Metalink 748037.1 workaround is to attach dummy printer to
RGRARG
■ Significant impact on Database size due to XML outputs■ Does not use Definition Access Sets functionality■ Report Manager output ignores Display Sets
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Traps (contd.)
■ Repository Maintenance could lead to disappearing menus▪ Patch 6884665 if on R 11i
▪ Patch 6884280 if on R 12
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Traps (contd.)
■ Can submit Report Set only from Java form▪ You cannot submit a Report Set directly from Report Manager
▪ Also, need to update Output Option to XML for each report
■ You can, however, publish a Report Set from Report Manager
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Traps (contd.)
■ Mix-up of Request Set submission vs Report Set submission menu items in earlier releases of R12▪ The menu labeled “Request Set Publish” publishes Report Sets
▪ The menu labeled “Report Set Publish” publishes Request Sets
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Traps (contd.)
■ Printing XML file if Profile Option Number of Copies is set to 1▪ Metalink 748037.1 workaround is to attach dummy printer to
RGRARG
▪ However, workaround will lead to using Reprint for regular reports
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Lessons learned
■ Need to be on at least 12.0.4 or later for minimal issues■ Web interface can have a learning curve■ Use Report Manager selectively for upper management
reports. Operational reports are efficiently done through standard FSG submission with text output
■ Use Repository Maintenance frequently – move critical reports to network drives
■ Longer than usual turnaround time on SRs
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A Hitchhikers Guide toOracle Report Manager in R12
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WebsiteDynamiquesolutionsllc.com
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