Management Consulting Services
Oracle Report Manager
June 13, 2013
www.msstech.com
Agenda
 MSS Overview
 Oracle Report Manager Overview
 Templates
 Submitting Reports
 Repository Management
Why MSS?
 Oracle Gold Partner (EBS), Headquarters in Phoenix, Office
in Denver
 Enterprise Solutions Partner since 1995 (Oracle)
 Oracle Rocky Mtn. Partner of the Year 2009, 2010, 2011 and
2012
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Oracle EBS Custom Training
Oracle EBS Upgrade Services
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 We bring years of “business” and “industry” experience with
best practices
 Consultants with on average 10 years of Oracle Experience
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Customer Successes
ORACLE REPORT MANAGER
Oracle Report Manager Overview
 Oracle Report Manager is an online report distribution system
that provides a secure and centralized location to produce and
manage all Oracle Reports (FSG, Variable, and Standard).
 Oracle Report Manager allows for the use of data from any
existing Oracle report or FSG and reformat the data to a
different presentation style or delivery format (Excel, PDF,
HTML)
 Oracle Report Manager reports can be placed on the Oracle EBusiness Suite Home page or portal.
 Approve reports before making them available for general
viewing.
 Secure reports by utilizing values, custom, and flexfield
segment
 Archive reports for future reference that no longer need to be
displayed.
Reporting Tools
End User
Definable
Highly
Formatted
Reports
Content
Drill Down
Capability
Exports to
Excel
Supports Pie
Charts/Bar Charts
Supports
OLAP (Online
Analytical
Processing),
Cubes
Oracle
Report
Manager
Yes
No
All
Yes
Yes
No
No
Included
Oracle
Reports
No
Yes
All
No
Yes –
difficult
No
No
Included
Oracle
Discoverer
Yes
No
All
No
Yes
No
No
Included/Optional
Oracle BI
Publisher
No
Yes
All
No
No
Yes
No
Included/Optional
FSG
Reports
Yes
No
Financial
Only
No
Yes
No
No
Included
Oracle
Business
Intelligence
(OBIEE)
Yes
No
All
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Report
Name
Additional
Cost
TEMPLATES
Template Overview
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A template is the report format that is used by the report manager to publish
the reports. All templates are created in Excel
All the templates are report specific and templates need to be defined for
each and every report the user has.
Pre-seeded template called ‘Generic FSG Template’ can be used with any
report, however, cannot be modified
When creating a new template or editing an existing template you can make
the following changes:
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Add and remove report elements.
Change the location of report elements on the page.
Modify row and column sizes.
Use standard Excel font formatting such as bold. Default formatting is provided.
Insert text that remains static in the report.
Add images. Supported image files are png, gif, jpg, and bmp
Add background watermark images
Include hyperlinks
Add data values. Data values are report objects that link to XML elements of the report
output file and the values are obtained during the publishing process.
– Move columns
– Insert blank rows
Creating a Template
Creating a Template (Continued)
Created Template
Template Upload
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When your template is opened in Excel, you can edit it by clicking on the
Add-Ins tab and the Oracle menu command.
Once you have completed all of the changes to your template, you can
upload it back to Oracle.
The upload process can be submitted by clicking on Oracle Menu from the
standard toolbar. See above screenshot.
After clicking on the upload sub menu, a pop up will appear asking the
user to provide the following information:
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Template Name: This is user defined
Description: this can be a longer description of the template name.
Language: British English
Overwrite Existing Template: Check the box if you are overwriting an existing
template. If you chose this option, it will overwrite any existing templates with the
same name. If it is a new template, leave box unchecked.
– Enable Drilldown: this will enable drilldown from your FSG report for this template.
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Click on the Upload button
Uploading Template
SUBMITTING FINANCIAL REPORTS
Submitting Financial Reports
You have the following options for submitting and publishing
reports:
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Financial Report
– Submit any of the Financial Statement Generator (FSG) reports available
to your responsibility
 Ad Hoc Financial Report Submission
– Define the Financial Statement Generator report components at runtime, if
a predefined FSG report does not exist.
 Standard Report
– Submit any of the standard Oracle Applications reports available to your
responsibility. These reports require a template that must be setup using
Oracle XML Report manager. However, many of the standard reports
already have a defined XML template in R12.
 Variable Report
– Submit variable reports with attribute sets and publishing options defined
in Oracle Applications. These are the reports that begin with RXI in the
report name.
Submitting Financial Reports Report Categories
 There are four categories of reports
– Single Report: A complete report for a
specific time-period.
– Single Report Over Time: A single report
produced for different periods.
– Expanded Report: One report displayed in a
variety of ways depending upon an expansion
value.
– Expanded Report Over Time: An expanded
report available for different time periods.
Submitting Financial Reports –
Parameters
Enter the following Parameters
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Report Name: Select existing report from list of values
Period: Select the period for which you want to run your report
Currency: Defaults to USD
Flag Exceptions: Select this box if you want any exceptions to be identified
Content Set: Optional
Display Set: Optional
Row Order Set: Optional
Rounding Options: Defaults to Calculate then round
Additional Parameters
 Segment Override (optional)
Submitting Financial Reports –
Parameters
Submitting Financial Report –
Publishing Parameters
Submitting Financial Reports Storage Location
 Designate where to store the report in the
repository.
– Use Last –will default to the last place you stored the
report
• New – Allows you to select where you would like to store the
report
Submitting Financial Reports Presentation
 Determine which responsibility will have access to a report. Users will
access reports by selecting menu items under their responsibility.
 One or more reports can be stored under the same location in the
repository.
 When a menu item is created, it is associated with the repository
location, regardless of whether one or many reports are stored in that
location.
Publishing Parameters - Review
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Review all of your
parameters before
you submit the report.
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Click on the refresh
button until the report
has completed. Click
on view output to see
your report.
Submitting Financial Report –
Sample of Output
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If you select a
template that allows
drilldown you can
drilldown to the
details of a line item
on the report by
double clicking on
the amount.
REPOSITORY MANAGEMENT
Repository Management
 All reports submitted through the Report Manager
are stored in the Reports Repository.
 The Repository Management allows you to:
– Organize and view completed reports
– Update publishing and security options for completed
reports
– Archive and delete reports
 Repository Management shows you a
hierarchical grid structure that provides an easy
way of locating reports. You can only add reports
to the repository when the report is published.
Maintain Repository
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Use the Maintain Repository page to schedule the Maintain Repository
concurrent request. This request will process all reports that are marked for
archive or delete. In addition, it will remove menu items that no longer point to
active reports.
You can schedule the request to run immediately, or you can set up a recurring
schedule to ensure items are archived and purged on a regular basis.
Setup Considerations
 Patchset level –Metalink 820653.1 (9 Jul 2009)
 Check for latest before implementation
 For 11.5.10.2 apply FRM.H over and above FRM.G
 For R12 Report Manager is Auto-installed. Apply FRM.A
 Report Manager uses Self Service Workflow Applications
 Report Manager requires the BNE platform used by Web ADI
 Functional Dependencies
 FSGs should have been defined in GL
 For standard reports, they should be assigned to Request Group
assigned to the Report Manager
 Custom menu and responsibility for Report Manager
 Browser and Excel settings
Custom Menu and Responsibility
 Pre-defined menus for Report Manager are not complete
 “FRM_SECURITY_MENU” menu is pre-defined but not
adequate
 Need to define/assign additional functions to custom menu:
 Financial Report Template Editor
 Financial Report Submission
 Standard Report Submission
 Repository Management
 Alternatively, you may add these functions to the
 “GL_SUPERUSER” menu
Contact Information
 Brian Jung – MSS Consulting Services Director
bjung@msstech.com
602-387-2104