Delivering Oracle Success

R12 In Depth: Focus on Report Manager

Cindy Harpring

RMOUG QEWAugust 19, 2011

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About DBAKOracle solution providerCo-founded in 2005Based in Englewood, CO2008 “Emerging Business of the Year” – South Metro Denver Chamber of CommerceMore than 140 implementations, upgrades, conversions, and support projects for 90+ clientsAverage 15 years of Oracle expertiseOracle Gold PartnerOEM “Specialized”

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Agenda

What is Oracle Report Manager?What does Oracle Report Manager Do?Configuration for Oracle Report ManagerFinancial Report Template EditorPublishing an FSG ReportReport RepositorySecurity OptionsThings to ConsiderQ & A

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Oracle Report Manager Is…Online report distribution system• Provides secure, centralized location• Produce and manage point-in-time reports

Users can be• Report producers = submit, publish, and set security for

reports• Report consumers = view and approve reports

Use templates to integrate reports displayed by Report Manager using your organization's individual style

It replaces and enhances the former Desktop ADI Request Center

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Oracle Report Manager Can…Enable report producers to submit and publish to a central repository:• Financial Statement Generator (FSG) reports• Ad Hoc FSG reports• Variable Format reports• Standard reports

Present reports in the repository to report consumers• Accessible by users through Web browser• Offers approval requirement before viewing reports• Permits report availability in a future timeframe• Allows viewing reports as spreadsheets, HTML or PDF files• Secures reports by content security models and through repository

security– User to Value– Custom– Flexfield segment

• Provides archive facility to maintain reports for future reference

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Oracle Report Manager Configuration…System Administrator responsibility

• Navigate: Application-Menu• Query User Menu: Report Manager Security Menu

Add the following prompts and functions to the menu:• Financial Report Submission• Financial Report Template Editor • Repository Management• Security Workbench• Standard Report Submission• Upload File• Variable Report Submission• Report Set Definition• Report Set Publish• Report Set Publishing Options• Request Set Publish• Request Set Publishing Options• Ad Hoc FSG Submission• Account Analysis and Drilldown Main Page• FSG Drilldown: Launch Page – no prompt needed• FSG Drilldown: Select Content Set Rows – no prompt needed• FSG Drilldown: Effective Range Selection Page – no prompt needed• FSG Drilldown: Balance Inquiry Page – no prompt needed

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Oracle Report Manager Configuration…

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Oracle Report Manager Configuration…Assign GL Concurrent Program Group to the Report Manager responsibility

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Financial Report Template Editor Setup…For Microsoft Excel 2007 and newer: • Choose the MS Office button • Choose Excel Options• In the Trust Center choose

‘Trust Center Settings’ button• Select macro settings

category• Select the ‘Trust access to the

VBA project object model’• Click ‘OK’ button

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Financial Report Template Editor Setup…• Select macro settings

category• Select the ‘Trust

access to the VBA project object model’

• Click ‘OK’ button

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Financial Report Template Editor Setup…For Microsoft Excel 2003 and earlier: • Click on Tools • Go to Macro• Go to and click on

Security• Select Medium in

Security Level tab• Click ‘OK’ button

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Create Report Templates…Create templates in ExcelModify templates in ExcelUpload templates to the Template Manager

At runtime when the template is selected, the report data is published in the format defined

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Create Report Templates…Navigate: Financial Report Template EditorEnter/select report name

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Create Report Templates…Choose to create a new template Select ‘Excel Template Editor’ from the Editor Selection listClick ‘Create’ button

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Create Report Templates…The Excel spreadsheet with default formatting is created and opened in Excel

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Create Report Templates…Accept the default layout or edit the template as desired:• Change row or column size• Change font, size, color and alignment• Update cell formatting• Format negative numbers• Change page margins• Select portrait or landscape orientation• Insert images such as logos

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Create Report Templates…

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Create Report Templates…When the spreadsheet is complete select• Add Ins – Oracle – Upload (Excel 2007 or higher• Oracle – Upload (earlier versions of Excel)

Enter template name and descriptionCheck ‘Enable Drill’ button to allow drilldown capabilityClick ‘Upload’ button

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Create Report Templates…

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Create Report Templates…Upload progress and confirmation is displayed

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Publishing a Report…Navigate: Financial Report SubmissionEnter/select report nameEnter/select periodSelect other options as neededClick ‘Next’ button

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Publishing a Report…

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Publishing a Report…Select the templateSelect the AutoArchive optionSelect Security optionClick ‘Next’ button

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Publishing a Report…

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Publishing a Report…Review/select storage locationClick ‘Next’ button

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Publishing a Report…Optionally select to create a menu item for the reportClick ‘Next’ button

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Publishing a Report…Review parametersClick ‘Submit’ button

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Publishing a Report…Concurrent request ID is displayedClick ‘Monitor Request’ button

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Publishing a Report…Click ‘Refresh’ button to show process completedClick ‘Output’ icon to view report with templateSelect ‘View Report Now’ linkSelect Output Type

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Publishing a Report…Report opens with template in selected Output format

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Financial Report Drilldown…Double-click on an amount in the report to view the details of transactions totaling the amount displayedCan update some of the drilldown parameters, if desired

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Financial Report Drilldown…

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Financial Report Drilldown…

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Report Repository…All reports submitted through Report Manager are stored in the reports repositoryAllows an organization to:• Organize and view completed reports• Update publishing and security options for completed

reports• Archive and delete reports

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Report Repository…Use the Repository Management menu item to access the workbench

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Security Options…Four Security Models:• None

– Individual user access to reports is determined by assigned responsibility(ies)

• 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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Security Options…Flexfield Value Security• The report is a financial report (FSG)• The report is submitted with a content set• Exactly one segment value in the content set has a display

type of PE (Page/Expand)• Choose the security in the report submission parameter

User to Value Security• Applied to FSGs that use a content set or standard reports

that contain a valid expansion value• Based on segment values for reports published in the

repository– View reports based on a segment value and framed by a

security model set for the specific user(s)

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Security Options…User to Value Security Setups• Select participating valuesets• Assign user privileges to values within the valuesets

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Security Options…Assign users to value or values to user

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Security Options…While submitting the report select the security type to apply

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Security Options…Error message received when accessing restricted value

Check assigned security through Security Workbench

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Things to Consider…Need an Oracle log-in to access reports, but uses the Oracle Applications Self Services Web ApplicationsRequires XML Publisher (XDO Engine) for publishing reports with logos and formattingFSG’s must be defined in the General LedgerStandard reports must be assigned to the request group assigned to the Report Manager responsibility(ies)Ensure the GL: Data Access Set profile option is set correctly for the Report Manager responsibility (pointed to the correct ledger or ledger set)

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Things to Consider…Templates are report-specific• Templates need to be defined for each report published

through Report Manager, including Standard reports• Can use the seeded “Generic FSG Template” with any

FSG report• Cannot modify the seeded “Generic FSG Template”

Standard report templates must be defined from the XML Publisher responsibilityRun reports with content sets only in the sequentially processing mode• XML Publisher does not support the parallel type

processing with content sets

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Things to Consider…Cannot use Report Manager to define or update FSG report components at this timeHelpful notes from My Oracle Support:• 436502.1 – Drilldown error resolution• 734015.1 – How to Publish FSG Reports• 1113366.1 – FAQ’s

Ensure Patch 6884280 (R12) is applied for Repository Maintenance prior to running the maintenance program

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Questions

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Contact

Cindy Harpring720.475.8600

charpring@dbaknow.com

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