Financial Reporting in Oracle R12

FSGs and Report Manager

Presented by: Lee Briggs
March 21, 2013

Agenda
Introductions
Overview of Report Manager
Required Setups
Applications
PC Settings

Tutorial
Tricks of the Trade
Summary
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Lee Briggs | Director,

Financial Management Practice

Professional Summary
Coordinator of the Desktop Integrator Special Internet Group
(OAUG)
Director of the BizTech Financial Management Practice,
specializing in the design, implementation and project
management of Oracle Financials projects.
35+ Full Implementations of Oracle Financials (11.0.3 thru
R12.1.3)
Background in training, analysis and project management.
Multiple Presenter at Collaborate and OpenWorld
Qualification Summary
Oracle Certified Specialist in General Ledger
Oracle Certified Specialist in Accounts Payable
Masters Degree in Management Studies
Bachelors (with Honors) in Accounting and Finance
Prior Experience:
Project Experience:

Mobile: (215) 208-7909

Email: LBriggs@BizTech.com
Twitter: @BTLeeBriggs
Website: www.BizTech.com

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Overview of Report Manager

Integrated Reporting Module within Oracle
eBusiness Suite
Provides an online repository for Financial and
Standard Reports
Personalized look and feel to all reports
Accessed through a web browser, rather than
Java forms
Securitized by user
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Required Setups
Patch up!!
11.5.10 Patchset FRM.H
R12.0 Patchset FRM.A
R12.1 Patchset FRM.B

Browsers
Report Manager users MUST run Internet Explorer
for full functionality (Note 1077728.1)

Required Setups
Ensure Desktop Integrators (Web ADI in 11i)
are fully configured
Great Presentation from Collaborate 2011 which
details all configurations
Desktop Integrator You mean I can load data from a
spreadsheet straight into an interface?
Available at http://www.biztech.com/collaborate11oaug-session-presentations/

Internet Explorer Settings

Navigate to Tools -> Internet Options and choose the
Security tab
Select Local Intranet and choose the Custom Level
button.
Set the option Initialize and script Active X controls not
marked as safe to "Prompt" or "Enable".
Set File download to enabled.
Set Allow Status bar updates via script to Enable.
Set Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as
safe to prompt

Excel 2010 Settings

Click File -> Options

Click 'Trust Center' link in the 'Excel Options' window.
Click 'Trust Center Settings...' button.
In the 'Trust Center' window click 'Macro Settings' link from
the menu on the left.
Under 'Macro Settings' check 'Disable all macros with
notification'.
Under 'Developer Macro Settings' check 'Trust Access to the
VBA project object model'.
Click 'OK' button to close the 'Trust Center' window.
Click 'OK' button to return to the spreadsheet.
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Excel 2007 Settings

Click the Office Button (top-left button in the window)

Click the 'Excel Options' button.
Click 'Trust Center' link from the menu on the left.
Click 'Trust Center Settings...' button.
In the 'Trust Center' window click 'Macro Settings' link from
the menu on the left.
Under 'Macro Settings' check 'Disable all macros with
notification'.
Under 'Developer Macro Settings' check 'Trust Access to the
VBA project object model'.
Click 'OK' button to close the 'Trust Center' window.
Click 'OK' button to return to the spreadsheet.
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Excel 2003 Settings

On the Tools menu, point to Macro and then click Security.
In the Security dialog box, click the Trusted Sources tab.
Click to select the Trust access to Visual Basic Project check
box.

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Tutorial

Update GL Superuser Responsibility

Submit an FSG (with Generic Template)
View Output
Create an FSG Template

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Update GL Super User Responsibility

Report Manager Super User is a valid
responsibility
Doesnt have all drill-down permissions that may
be needed

General Ledger Super User responsibility

has the drilldown permissions, but no Report
Manager access
SOLUTION Add the RptMgr SuperUser
menu to GL_SUPERUSER menu (then log off
and on)
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Update GL Super User Responsibility

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Update GL Super User Responsibility

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Submit an FSG
Navigation
Report Manager > Financial Report Submission

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Submit an FSG
Step 1 Submission Parameters

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Submit an FSG
Step 2 Publishing Parameters

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Submit an FSG
Step 3 Storage Location

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Submit an FSG
Step 4 Presentation

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Submit an FSG
Step 5 Review

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Monitor Requests

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View Output in Report Manager

Navigation
Report Manager > Repository Management

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View Output in Report Manager

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View Output in Report Manager

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Create an FSG Template

Navigation
Report Manager > Financial Report Template Editor

Each FSG that you want to use in Report

Manager HAS to have its own template

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Create an FSG Template

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Create an FSG Template

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Basic Excel Formatting

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Moving Line Descriptions away

from the left

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Uploading Template

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Running the FSG

with the new Template
Almost same process as before
Picking the new template
Report Manager remembers the last folder you
saved the report

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Submit an FSG
Step 1 Submission Parameters

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Submit an FSG
Step 2 Publishing Parameters

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Submit an FSG
Step 3 Storage Location

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Submit an FSG
Step 4 Presentation

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Submit an FSG
Step 5 Review

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Sample Output

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Tricks of the Trade

Update the FSG definitions
Remove all underline formatting from the rowsets
FSG will insert a line (row) with - or _, which will
look messy
Remove that formatting, and let native Excel formatting
take care of it

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Tricks of the Trade

Only use Report Manager for Management
Reporting once numbers are final
Analysts should continue to submit FSGs through
General Ledger

Content Sets can work

Use Sequential Content Sets
Oracle Support is working on getting parallel
content sets working

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Tricks of the Trade

Avoid logos
Display nicely in PDF and HTML outputs
Lose proportions and colors in Excel format

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Tricks of the Trade

Decide on your Report
Repository structure
early
Ledger
Financial Reports (FSG)
Income Statement
Balance Sheet
Trend Analysis

Operations Reports
(Standard)
Module 1
Module 2

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Tricks of the Trade

Fed up with running the same report multiple
times for different segment values?
Report Managers Security Workbench allows
you to put security on Value Sets
Run the report once
Users with access to Company 100 will only be
able to see Company 100

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Summary
Overview of Report Manager
Required Setups
Applications
PC Settings

Tutorial
Tricks of the Trade

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Upcoming Presentations
Collaborate 2013
Financial Reporting in Oracle R12 - FSGs and
Report Manager (ADI SIG, April 7th, 2:30pm)
Exploring the Mystery that is AGIS (April 10th,
11am)

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Contact Information

Lee Briggs
Director, Financial
Management Practice
c. 215 208 7909
Twitter: @BTLeeBriggs

LBriggs@BizTech.com

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