R12 Financial Statement Generator

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1 R12 Financial Statement Generator Session # S September 24, 2008 Presented by Holly French & Liz Konley DBA Knowledge, Inc.

2 Agenda R12 Financial Statement Generator Defining Financial Statements using Financial Statement Generator (FSGs) Define Row Formats Define Column Formats Define a Content Set Define a Report Report Manager Financial Report Submission Drill Down on Financial Reports Financial Report Template Editor Report Repository Management Known Issues

3 Defining Financial Statements using Financial Statement Generator (FSGs) Required Components for an operational Financial Statement Row Format Column Format Report Format Optional Components Content Sets Flexible and Reusable Separate components of row and column formats can be used in multitudes of combinations without having to recreate Optional Components can be used to create further variations on reporting

4 Defining Financial Report Components

5 Defining Row Sets

6 Defining Row Sets

7 Defining Row Sets Account Assignments NOTE: Use ranges to make the row sets flexible

8 Defining Row Sets Calculations

9 Defining Row Sets Calculations

10 Defining Column Sets

11 Defining Column Sets

12 Defining Column Sets Amount Types

13 Defining Column Sets Build Column Sets

14 Defining Column Sets Build Column Sets

15 Defining Content Sets

16 Defining Content Sets

17 Defining Content Sets

18 Defining a Report

19 Report Manager Release 12 Enhancements Report Manager comes preinstalled with Release 12 No more patching required Reports can be run by Ledger Reuse reports across all Ledgers Report sets do not launch a separate request for each report in the set Makes managing requests more efficient Does not cause a backlog for other requests Enabling Report Manager Privileges profile option is no longer a requirement Report Manager is a Self Service Application that can be published in xml Allows for easy sharing of data with other applications or Enterprises Expansion Value allows for ad hoc filtering of the FSG report

20 Report Manager Other Key Benefits Report Archiving through the Repository Allows you to upload any type of file and publish it to a report repository Contents of the repository can be distributed to the Oracle E-Business Suite home page Reports can be archived and deleted through Report Manager Security Workbench Allows the tightening down of security on FSGs Based on content sets Drilldown from FSGs directly back to originating transactions Templates are created using Excel All formatting available in Excel is available for templates Excel, PDF, HTML or XML publishing formats Ability to create a menu item for a published report Easy access to reports without waiting for them to be published again Too much of this will clutter your home page

21 Financial Report Submission

22 Report Submission Select a Template

23 Report Submission Select Repository

24 Report Submission Monitor Requests

25 Report Submission XML Output

26 Report Submission Report Output

27 Report Submission Drilling Down NOTE: Drill must be enabled on the Template

28 Report Submission Drill Down to Accounts

29 Report Submission Drill Down to Account Detail

30 Report Submission Drill Down to Transaction

31 Report Submission Drill Down to Transaction

32 Financial Report Template Editor

33 Financial Report Template Editor

34 Financial Report Template Editor Enabling Drill

35 Report Repository Management

36 Known Issues (as of this writing, Note on Metalink) Watermarks and background images are not supported in base R12 To use images in your financial report templates You must enable the Financial Report Template Editor to upload the images in your template to the Application server If "Out of Memory" errors occur during the publishing process Increase the JVM heap size A "Page Not Found" error occurs when trying to view report output using the PDF output type, when viewing report output migrated from earlier versions of Report Manager (legacy reports), or when viewing third party files Apply patch (RM PDF R12 Unable to Output to PDF from Report Manager) When publishing an FSG report set using Oracle Report Manager, only the first report in the report set is published When you publish a report set, select the Publish check box for each report name and then click the Publish button. If a report name is already selected, deselect that report and then select it again A fix is also available from Oracle Support Avoid using special characters in Template names Doing this may require a fix from Oracle Support