Report Manager and FSG Setup and Guid

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Report Manager

This article describes Report Manager functionality in Oracle R12 which allows users to primarily publishand store Financial Statements/reports that are written using Financial Statement Generator (FSGs). Notethat Report Manager is also present in later versions of Oracle 11i and some patching may be needed to

avail the functionality.

Oracle customers that are getting ready to upgrade from 11i to R12 may find this article useful, especially ifthey are currently using Application Desktop Integrator (Client ADI) to publish and present their FSGreports. It is important to note that Client ADI is no longer supported in R12. Report Manager hasreplaced Client ADI in R12 and does not require any client installation.

Posted on Dec. 12, 2013 by Neeraj Sharma

Report Manager acts as an online secure and convenient location to store and access point-in-timereports published or uploaded to a database.

Report Manager Set Up

Report Manager comes installed with some pre-defined menus. In order to use all the functionalities, youmay define a main menu that can be assigned to an appropriate GL responsibility or create a newresponsibility altogether.

The following Functions may be added to your menu:

1. Financial Report Template Editor

2. Financial Report Submission3. Standard Report Submission4. Repository Management5. FSG Drilldown Launch Page6. FSG Drilldown: Select Content Set Rows7. FSG Drilldown: Effective Range Selection Page8. FSG Drilldown: Balance Inquiry Page9. Account Analysis and Drilldown10. Report Set Publish11. Report Set Publishing Options12. Request Set Publish13. Request Set Publishing Options14. Security Workbench
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Navigation: System Administrator Responsibility > Application > Menu.

The following functionality is described in this document

Financial Report Template Editor Financial Report Submission Drilldown capabilities on FSGs

A) Financial Report Template Editor

This is used to create and maintain templates. A template is the report format/layout that is used by the

Rreport Manager to publish the reports. All the templates are report specific and templates need to bedefined for each and every FSG report.

However, Oracle delivers a seeded template called Generic FSG Template which can be used with anyFSG, irrespective of the number of rows and columns that the report has.

A template is customized by the user and then uploaded to the server using MS Excel. Thus, templatesdo not reside on the users local drive or network drive as was the case with Client ADI. Examples ofmodifications that can be made to templates are:

Addition of company logo

Addition/removal of report elements Moving the location of report elements on the page Modify row and column sizes Use standard Excel formatting such as font modification, underline, shading etc.
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You can create a new template by clicking on the Financial Report Template Editor

Select an existing FSG report, language and editor (MS Excel) and click on Create

The screenshot below shows the Template that has been created in MS Excel. Notice that the templatedisplays the respective rows and columns of the original FSG report.

To demonstrate, the following modifications have been made to the template as seen in the screenshotbelow.
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When you are done making the modification, you need to upload the template to the Oracle server.

The upload process can be submitted by clicking on Oracle Menu. This is either directly visible on the MSExcel menu or in later versions of MS Excel (2007 and later), the Oracle Menu is visible under the AddIns tab from the standard toolbar.

Upon clicking on the upload sub menu within MS Excel, provide the Template name ( which is generallythe FSG report name for easy referencing) and indicate whether you wish to overwrite the existingtemplate and whether you wish to utilize this template to drill down to the journal entry and subledgertransactions.

Once uploaded, the following confirmation message appears.


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The above message shows that the template has been successfully uploaded to the server.

You are now ready to utilize this template in publishing your FSG report.

B) Financial Report Submission

This is used to submit FSGs defined in your applications. Double click on Financial Report Submission tolaunch the form and provide the following parameters

-Report Name

-Content Set (optional)

-Period

-Currency

-Ledger (defaults in)

The screenshot below shows the Submission parameters page.


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You can select the override segment in the additional parameters field.

Users can also schedule the FSG to run at a pre- scheduled time or instantly. The default value is Nowi.e. instantly.

Click on Next.

The next screenshot shows the publishing parameters you need to provide, to publish your FSG. Chooseyour newly created template from the list of values if you are running the report for the first time with thetemplate. Going forward, subsequent submissions of the report will have the template automaticallydefaulted on this field.

Click on Next

The following screen shows the storage location in the repository. The report will be stored in the locationthat you specify. This is a location on the actual Oracle server, and not your local machine or networkdrive.

It is important to store your financial statements in an organized fashion for quick and easy retrieval. Youhave the ability to select an existing location or create a new location/sub location (using the green plussign being sure to click this button while on the section/grouping where you wish to add the new location)

In the future you can retrieve the rep ort from this location in your repository using the RepositoryManagement link from the Report Manager menu.


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Click Submit button and then click on monitor requests on the next page. This will take you to theRequest Center from where you can see the report processing status and also get the output.

When you submit any FSG report from Report Manager, there will be two requests that will be submitted.One is the (Financial Statement Generator) and the other one is (Publish and Presentation Program).

The first request is for generating the XML tags that will be processed by the second request to publish

the report output in a presentable format.

You would need to click on the output icon for (Publish and Presentation Program)

Optionally, if you accidentally closed the web form for the requests (above), you can also click on View >Requests > Find on the main Oracle Navigator page to look for your (Publish andPresentation Program) request.

Click on View Output and click on link that comes up and the following screen comes up.
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Validate that the correct timeframe is displayed and choose the appropriate Output Type to publish yourFSG report.

The screenshot below shows the report output when the Output Type of Excel was selected.


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Click OK and choose the Options button to choose from a bunch of pre-seeded templates.

Note that Oracle customers can also create their own .rtf templates and associate them to the Program Publish FSG Report using XML Publisher Administrator.

When utilizing the FSG Report Set Publish option, the same template can be utilized for more than onereport but it may need to be modified using Oracle BI Publisher technology to add adjust column widths,add company logo etc.

Monitor your requests and click on View Output.

The report output using FSGXML: Basic Template is shown below:


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C) Drilldown

The drilldown feature allows the user to drill into report values using the Account Analysis and Drilldownfeature on the FSG report.

Ensure that you are using a template that is drill enabled.

Performing an FSG Drilldown :

1. Your FSG HTML and PDF report types output will show links for each amount on the report. In MS Excel, simplydoubleclick on the cell that you wish to drill into. You cannot drill down on calculated amounts.

2. From the account balance, you can further drill into the journals, and subledger details where this is applicable.3. You can also take advantage of the Export functionality in Account Analysis and Drilldown to export the drilldown

information to Excel where you can easily perform additional computations and analysis.

4. You can see the various amounts that make up the total amount in the report.


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5. Clicking on the column value link will further take you to the detail balances page as shown below.

6. You may then click on a Debit or Credit link to see the transaction record. This is only available if the transaction

originated from a subledger e.g. AP, AR.


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7. Clicking on View Transaction button will take you to the forms. In case a forms session has not been started, it willask you for the responsibility you want to use for drilling to the appropriate sub-ledger. Upon selecting the correctsub-ledger, this will take you to the sub-ledger transaction form, from which the balance emanated.

You will get the forms from the Applications like on the next screenshot (AP Invoice showing an invoicedistribution

Tips and Tricks

1. Recommended Settings for Report Manager to work with MS Excel Open a blank MS Excel spreadsheet Click on File and choose Excel Options Click on Trust Center Click on Trust Center Settings Click on Macro Settings Choose Enable all macros Check the box Trust Access to the VBA project object model


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2. Recommended Browser Settings

Add your Oracle Application urls as Trusted Sites as follows:

Launch your PROD url using Internet Explorer

Click on Tools > Internet Options > Security tab Click on the Green check sign Click on the Sites button Click Add (you may need to uncheck Require server verification option)

References:

1. Oracle Report Manager- User Guide 2. Note 726774.1 11i-12 Report Manager Master Note 3. Note 1113366.1 Report Manager Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 4. Note:734015.1 Report Manager: Step by Step Setup Guide For Publishing FSGs 5. Note: 444308.1 How To Enable FSG Drilldown Functionality in Report Manager?
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