Delivering Oracle Success

R12 In Depth:
Focus on Report Manager
Cindy Harpring

RMOUG QEW
August 19, 2011
 About DBAK
Oracle solution provider
Co-founded in 2005
Based in Englewood, CO
2008 Emerging Business of the Year South
Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce
More than 140 implementations, upgrades,
conversions, and support projects for 90+ clients
Average 15 years of Oracle expertise
Oracle Gold Partner
OEM Specialized

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 Agenda
What is Oracle Report Manager?
What does Oracle Report Manager Do?
Configuration for Oracle Report Manager
Financial Report Template Editor
Publishing an FSG Report
Report Repository
Security Options
Things to Consider
Q&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 Excel
Modify templates in Excel
Upload 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 Editor
Enter/select report name

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 Create Report Templates
Choose to create a new template
Select Excel Template Editor from the Editor
Selection list
Click 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 description
Check Enable Drill button to allow drilldown
capability
Click 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 Submission
Enter/select report name
Enter/select period
Select other options as needed
Click Next button

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 Publishing a Report

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 Publishing a Report
Select the template
Select the AutoArchive option
Select Security option
Click Next button

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 Publishing a Report

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 Publishing a Report
Review/select storage location
Click Next button

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 Publishing a Report
Optionally select to create a menu item for the report
Click Next button

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 Publishing a Report
Review parameters
Click Submit button

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 Publishing a Report
Concurrent request ID is displayed
Click Monitor Request button

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 Publishing a Report
Click Refresh button to show process completed
Click Output icon to view report with template
Select View Report Now link
Select 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 displayed
Can 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 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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 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
organizations 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 Applications
Requires XML Publisher (XDO Engine) for publishing
reports with logos and formatting
FSGs must be defined in the General Ledger
Standard 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 responsibility
Run 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 time
Helpful notes from My Oracle Support:
436502.1 Drilldown error resolution
734015.1 How to Publish FSG Reports
1113366.1 FAQs
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 Harpring
720.475.8600
charpring@dbaknow.com

Presentation available at:

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