R12 Financial Statement Generator

Session # S300002
September 24, 2008
Presented by
Holly French & Liz Konley
DBA Knowledge, Inc.
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
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
Defining Financial Report Components
Defining Row Sets
Defining Row Sets
Defining Row Sets
Account Assignments
NOTE: Use ranges to make the row sets flexible
Defining Row Sets
Calculations
Defining Row Sets
Calculations
Defining Column Sets
Defining Column Sets
Defining Column Sets Amount Types
Defining Column Sets
Build Column Sets
Defining Column Sets
Build Column Sets
Defining Content Sets
Defining Content Sets
Defining Content Sets
Defining a Report
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
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
Financial Report Submission
Report Submission Select a Template
Report Submission Select Repository
Report Submission Monitor Requests
Report Submission XML Output
Report Submission Report Output
Report Submission Drilling Down
NOTE: Drill must be enabled on the Template
Report Submission Drill Down to Accounts
Report Submission Drill Down to Account Detail
Report Submission Drill Down to Transaction
Report Submission Drill Down to Transaction
Financial Report Template Editor
Financial Report Template Editor
Financial Report Template Editor Enabling Drill
Report Repository Management
Known Issues
(as of this writing, Note 404707.1 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 6145856 (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