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Introducing Oracle Fusion


Navigation
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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:


Navigate Oracle Fusion Applications.
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Explore dashboards.
Examine panels.
Review infolets and infotiles.

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Getting Started in Oracle Fusion Applications
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Completely open, service-enabled enterprise applications.
Designed with features for the best-in-class user-interface designs and workflows that
optimize usability and deliver business value.
All functionality revolves around the Oracle Fusion Applications Welcome Springboard, which
can be personalized.
Note: The Welcome Springboard view changes based on your roles and privileges.

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Simplified Navigation

Enhanced user interface features include: NEW


Welcome Springboard
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Infolets
Infotiles
Panels

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noneed it, is of the highest priority. Advantages include:
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Detailed list of all the work areas that you have access to using the improved navigator.
Logical, related tasks organized into groups and displayed in a pre-determined order set
by the application.
Ability to configure tasks to meet your business needs.
Access to work areas and dashboards by clicking on the icons on the Welcome
Springboard or from the Navigator entries.

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New Welcome Springboard

Quick glance at your work-related conversations and


announcements.
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Page control navigation located at the top of the pages to


access the Welcome Springboard and the infolet pages.
Navigator to access additional applications.

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Use the page control dots that appears at the top of the Welcome Springboard to switch
between that page and new infolet pages.
Use the icons on the Welcome Springboard to easily access relevant work areas and
dashboards. Alternatively, use the Navigator to access any additional applications.
Take advantage of the fact that no additional steps are required to enable the Welcome
Springboard.
Maintain your personalization and customization of the home page in earlier releases,
which is preserved on My Dashboard.

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Favorites and Recent Items
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to:
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on and Recent Items menu enables users to return to flows that have been
The Favorites
recentlynaccessed, usually within, but not limited to, a single session.

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User Interface

Global Area
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Panel
Tabs

Infotiles Area

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Oracle Fusion User Interface.
Global Area: Contains links to help you navigate user interfaces, personalized links and
tools, and the name of the user who is signed in.
Infotiles Area: Contains infotiles that give you a quick glance at key performance
indicators and that can be expanded for more details.
Section: Contains the transaction or form that requires creation, editing, or review.
Panel: Contains links to tasks, process, and reports and enables search on some
panels.
Panel Tabs: Opens several different panels including the Tasks, Search, and Report
panels.

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Dashboards

Oracle Fusion dashboards provide:


Information summaries: View of the big picture as well as
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prioritization.
Information monitoring: Quick action and further exploration.
Information containers: Multiple regions, dashboards, graphs,
and other objects.

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Role-based: Examples include General Accounting, Line Manager, and Collector
dashboards.
Business intelligence-driven: Examples include Balance Sheet and Sales Pipeline
dashboards.

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General Accounting Dashboard
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Accounting Dashboard is the main dashboard for Oracle Fusion General Ledger
Journals and Period Close.
The General Accounting Dashboard contains the following sections:
Account Monitor
Intercompany Transactions
Journals
Closing Status
Process Monitor
The General Accounting Dashboard contains the following functionality with direct links:
Journals
Period Close
Inquiry and Reporting
Planning and Budgeting

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Work Areas
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Navigate to: Accounting > Period Close
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A work area
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a grouping of similar tasks. The Period Close work area includes tasks for
accounting periods for Oracle Fusion General Ledger and subledgers.

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Panel

Click on the Tasks icons to open the Panel.


Use the Panel tabs to:
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Access features without leaving the current application.


Perform searches.
Tasks Panel Tab
Run reports.

Tasks
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perform actions such as search, run reports, and view integrated conversations in the
context of the current task.
Open the panel by clicking on one of the panel tabs. The panel is collapsed by default.
Use the slide-out panel to access features directly from any screen without leaving the
current application or navigating through different roles or hierarchies.
View the tasks available for your user role.

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Search Panel Overview

Use the Search Panel to perform local searches on the work area
you are currently using.
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Search Panel Tab

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Use the Search
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using. Click
For example, in the Billing work area, you can quickly search for a transaction by Transaction
Number, Transaction Date, or Bill-to Customer Account Number using the Search panel.

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Reports and Analytics Panel

Use the Reports and Analytics panel to run any reports and
analytics available to your user role.
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Reports and
Analytics
Report Panel Tab Panel

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Click on thenReports and Analytics panel tab to expand the panel and select the reports and
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Practice 2-1 Overview: Getting Started in Oracle Fusion
Applications
This practice covers the following topics:
Signing in to Oracle Fusion Applications.
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Exploring the following user interfaces:


Global Area including:
Accessibility
Help
Search
Personalize a
Setting and Actions menu h a s

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Signing out of Oracle Fusion Applications.
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Infolets versus Infotiles
NEW
Infolet
An interactive container in a simplified user interface that
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provides key information and user actions including:


Refreshing and running processes to update the data.
Drilling into the details behind the data.
Changing the displayed views, names, and information.
Infolets are combined on an Infolet Page that is accessed
using a page control dot on the Welcome Springboard. a
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Infolets Overview

Select the page control dot at the top of the Welcome


Springboard to view a specific infolet page.
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Use the dots to return to the Welcome Springboard.


Use the arrow in the lower corner of the infolet to change
views.
Click on the Actions menu in the top right corner of the infolet.
Page Control Dots

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nontofrom
Use infolets
way directly
view information from different sources at a glance in an efficient and timely
the Welcome Springboard. You have the right information instead of just
more data to sift through.
Mobile device support is available to take your work on the go, enabling you to close your
books quickly. You can spot trends and exceptions to gain insights about your financial
results in real-time.
Infolets are available for General Ledger, Intercompany, Budgetary Control, and Cash
Management.
Note: You can only view those infolets that you have permission to access.

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Infolet Repository

The Infolet Repository displays the infolets available for each


infolet dashboard.
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Infolet Repository Icon

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nonrepository displays the available set of infolets based on your access privileges.
The infolet
Click the Infolet Repository icon in the upper right hand corner of the page, and then
select or deselect the infolets you want to use and drag and drop infolets in the order
that you want them displayed.
Click the Actions menu in the upper right hand corner to view a list of actions that can be
performed for that infolet. The list varies by infolet. For example, actions include:
- View the last updated date on which the process ran.
- Run extracts.
- Refresh the view.
- Edit title and enable views.
- Hide the infolet.
Use infolets to aggregate key information for a specific area, for example, your sales
pipeline, employee turnover, or other business transactions.

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Subledger Infotiles Overview

Use infotiles to:


Obtain detailed information from a single page.
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Orient yourself in intense, repetitive, and focused tasks.

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Useoinfotiles

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Navigate among infotiles to have related details that are refreshed in the content area of
the page.
Glance to see what is going on and then click the Select Tile arrow to open and scan the
details.
Find infotiles on the Assets, Receivables, and Payables landing pages and the Billing or
the Expenses work areas.
Note: No additional steps are required to enable this feature.

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Practice 2-2 Overview: Infolets and Infotiles

This practice covers the following topics:


Navigating to the General Accounting infolets.
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Navigating to the Payables infotiles.


Note: Sign in with Casey.Brown and your assigned password to
perform this practice.

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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:


Navigate Oracle Fusion Applications.
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Explore dashboards.
Examine panels.
Review infolets and infotiles.

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