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Publishing Financial Reports Using
R12 Oracle Report Manager
OracleReportManager
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Agenda
Report Manager Set Up
Report Template Editor
Security
Financial Report Submission
Repository Management
Account Drill Down
Report Set Publishing
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Report Manager Overview
Report Manager is your centralized FSG reporting tool
for submission, publishing, presentation and storage of
financial system generated reports
Replaces and enhances the former Desktop ADI
Request Center and ADI Report Publishing
Utilizes all FSG report definition (row sets, column sets,
content, etc)
Online centralized reporting system and repository
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Report Manager Configuration
Responsibility and Menus
Responsibility
Predefined Report Manager responsibility
Must define and assign additional menus
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Responsibility and Menus
Menus
Set Up the following Functions to the menu
Note: For each of the highlighted functions, please ensure you
choose the Function Name value without "_G
ReportManagerConfiguration
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ReportManagerConfiguration
Responsibility and Menus
Menus Functions to add
FSG Drilldown Launch Page
FSG Drilldown: Select Content Set Rows
FSG Drilldown: Effective Range Selection Page
FSG Drilldown: Balance Inquiry Page
Account Analysis and Drilldown
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Excel Settings
XP or 2003
Open Excel
2. Go to Tools -> Macro -> Security -> Trusted Sources
3. Check the "Trust access to Visual Basic Project" option
Excel 2007
Open Excel Select the Office Button
Click on Excel Options
ReportManagerConfiguration
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Excel Settings
Excel 2007 Continued
Click on Trust Center
Click on Trust Center Settings
Enable all macros and check Trust access to VBA project object
model
ReportManagerConfiguration
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Internet Explorer and Browser Settings
Navigate to Tools -> Internet Options and choose the Security tab.
1.

Select Local Intranet and choose the Custom Level button.
2.

Set the following option to Prompt.
3.

Initialize and script Active X controls not marked as safe
Navigate to Tools -> Internet Options and choose the Security tab
1.

Select the "Trusted sites
2.

Select the "Trusted sites"
3.

Select the "Sites" button. Under Security choose "Custom Level"

and
ensure that the Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins and Script ActiveX
controls marked for scripting are enabled
ReportManagerConfiguration
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Report Template Editor
What is it?
Create custom templates in Excel for FSG report
publishing
Comes seeded with two generic templates
Generic FSG Template

and Generic FSG Drill
Template
Allows the user to specify the report layout and basic
Excel features to enhance the report presentation
Capabilities to enable report drill down
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Navigate: Financial Report Template Editor
Report Template Editor
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Default Excel Report
Template
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Report Formatting Functions
Insertlogoandchangecolors
Modifycolumnandrowtext,

size,formatting
Changepagemargins

andorientation
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Sample Template
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Excel Reporting Editing Functions
Edit template functions within Excel
Cell Formatting
Page Layout
Page Break Preview
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Report Template Upload
UseOraclemenu

touploadmodified

template
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Report Template Upload
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Security
Four Types of Security:
N one
Users have no restrictions on what report content they can view
Flexfield

Security
Standard flexfield

security
User to Value Security
Assign segment values to users -

Distribute departmental reports
Custom
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User to Value Security
Utilize this functionality when running FSG reports with content

sets
Allows you to control what the content set value you want the
user to view
Example -

You want to distribute your Income Statement by
department to each department owner
Using the Security Workbench

create a value set
Security
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Assign users to value or values to user
Owner,Viewer

assignprivileges
Allcanonlyviewreportswithin

theirassignedvalues
Security
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Publishing a FSG Report
Navigate: Financial Report Submission
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Publishing Parameters
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Storage Location
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Presentation and Review
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View Requests (HTML)
Three Concurrent jobs
Financial Statement Generator
Spawns

Publish and Presentation Program
FO Generator
View
Output
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Published Report
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Sample Report
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Repository for all published FSG reports
Create folders to store reports
Allows users to view reports and Archive reports
Update Publishing parameters
Repository Management
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T
View Reports
Content Set and
User Value
Security controlled
Report
Output
options
Excel,
PDF and
HTML
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Ability to drill back to Oracle from a published report
Utilized the new R12 Account Analysis HTML look and
fell
Export account inquiry data to Excel
Example

Drill Down
Account Drill Down
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An Oracle Application browser window will open
Account Drill Down
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Clicking on the credit column to drill back to the detail balances
Account Drill Down
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View Transaction will drill back to the Applications
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Define a Report Set or a Request Set in Oracle E-

Business Suite
Running a Report Set and Publishing the Reports is a
two step process
Submit the report set
Publish the reports to the report repository
You must define the reporting publishing options for
each report, the first time you publish a report
Running and Publishing Report Sets
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Once the request complete, Navigate to Report Set
Publish menu option
Running and Publishing Report Sets
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Retrieve the Report Set Name
Click on the Update Publishing Parameters to enter the
publishing parameters
Running and Publishing Report Sets
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Once you have set up all the publishing parameter, select
all the reports to publish and the click on the publish
button
Running and Publishing Report Sets
Thank You

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