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Customer Connect
Financial Report Authoring
Using Financial Reporting
Studio Session 2 Advanced
Greg Roth
February 18, 2014

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Agenda
User POV vs. Prompts
Functions on Member Selection (including Advanced)
Actual vs. Budget
Formatting
Charts and Graphs
Drillthrough to GL
Appendix
Questions and Answers

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Appendix (Not covered in Session)

Related Contents (Drill from FR Report to FR Report)
Reference other Grids or DB connections
FR Report with different tree versions
Other (Folder Structure, Folder/Report Security, Change DB Connection,

Migrating Reports)
Other Resources (UPK Recordings)

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User POV in a Member Selector Function

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Prompt

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User POV is best practice vs. Prompts

User POV is best practice over Prompt
User POV works with functions (for member selector)
Individual users pick/update there own values at run time, it is interactive for that user and it

persists for that user (in the next session, etc)

Works best with parent members in hierarchy
User POV can be used for a dimension on Page, Row and Column
Each users preference to show Preview User Point of View pop-up before running report

(Workspace->File->Preferences->Financial Reporting)
Prompts:
Can have default values, but same for each user. Defaults can be changed, but have to

manually change them each time by each user

Cant be used with functions (you cant do Children of Prompt value)
Prompts can be used for dimensions not just on Page, but also row and columns

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Functions on Member Selection

FR has many different functions
Children of See previous slides
Others: Descendants of, Sibling of, Relative Member, Range from Relative

Member, etc
Can be used on row, column, page
A function can be used to reference Current User POV
Children of Current POV (see the previous slides)

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Functions on Member Selection: Examples

Relative Member
CY vs. PY (already shown in Beginners session)
Others: Current Period vs. Prior Period Last year (or quarter), Currency QTD vs.

Prior Year(or Quarter) QTD

Range from Relative Member (print screen example to follow)
Rolling Quarterly Income Statement
Rolling 12 Month Income Statement
Many others in member selection window->(Tab) Functions

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Advanced Functions on Member Selection

In Member Selection Window Select View (top right hand corner) - >
Union, AND, OR

Example:
Descendants of Sales Revenue Parent AND Level 0
Will return all lowest level members under the Sales Revenue Parent

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Advanced Functions on Member Selection

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Actual vs. Budget

Put Scenario dimension in Column

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Actual vs. Budget

Might also have to put Accounting Period, Amount Type and

Balance Amount dimension in column depending on report

requirements
Pre-requisite: Must define Scenario members first in value set called

Accounting Scenario. Then run Create Scenario Dimension

Members program from ESS.

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Formatting
Demo. Includes:
(shown in Session 1) Natural credits as negatives

(Revenues/Liability/Equity) vs. natural debits as positive

(Expenses/Assets)
Variance columns are different than regular datacell columns.
Example: Formatting an expense row/column/cell can be different than formatting

variance column of CY expenses minus PY expenses

Inherit Formatting
Conditional Formatting

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Charts and Graphs

Demo

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Charts and Graphs Recap and Helpful Hints

Formatting
For bar graphs, change default Bar width to 40 as a good place to start

with further sizing since default is normally too wide.

Datasets change colors if desired

If want Revenues (Liabilities/Equity) and Expenses (Assets) in same

graph, must have hidden row/column to multiple Revenues

(Liability/Equity) * -1. Use that hidden row/column in the graph

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Drillthrough to GL - Demo

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Drillthrough to GL - Demo

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Drillthrough to GL - Recap
From FR: Drillthrough to General Ledger
Option 1 (as shown in print screens in previous slide): Drillthrough to Inquire on

Detail Balances user interface -> Journal Lines - >Journals and Subledger
Transactions.
If results do not return, check that the Data Access Set is correct, change if

necessary and drillthrough again from FR report.

Option 2 (not shown): From FR, Drill to Account Inspector user interface (pivot) - >

Inquire on Detail Balances -> same path

Tip: Once FR report has run, if desiring to drillthrough to Inquire on Detail Balances, you may need to specify lower

parent levels in FRC/Workspace for query to return.

In FR report, try to expand on row/column or change User pov and Grid POV to lower levels
Alternative 1: From FR->Drill to Account Inspector, then pivot, expand, then to Detail Balances
Alternative 2: From FR->Export to Query Ready in Smart View->pivot, expand, change page dimensions-

>then drill to Inquire on Detail Balances

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Questions?

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Appendix:
Additional Content
Other Resources

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Related Content
Drill from FR Report to FR Report with Related Content links.
NOTE: This is different than Drillthrough to General Ledger Inquire on Detail

Balances user interface then to Journal line then to Subledger

First FR report passes dimension settings to second FR report (as long as the

dimension is in User POV on the second report).

Same for second report to third report, to as many as you want

Or Drill to any website (internet or intranet).

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Related Content (continued)

If there are Related Content links, be careful to have the folder

structure determined upfront because related content link is based on

full url path (which includes folder structure).
Otherwise, you have to manually re-do all links.
All environments should be consistent.

Also, there is a Related Content Utility (1 report at a time) to update the

from 1 env to another the server name portion of the url path (but not
the folder path that follows in the url link).

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Referencing other Grids or DB Connections

Option 1: Reference another grid with Formula:
Option 1 is best practice over Option 2.
Use a formula in row/column or cell on Grid1 to pull in row/column or cell from Grid 2 (grid 2 can

be hidden).
Grid 2 can be same or different cube with completely different dimensionality (chart of accounts,

accounting calendar, ADB, etc)

Using this approach, there are no considerations of mapping dimension to dimension, and other.

Option 2: Reference another DB connection within same Grid

Highlight a row/column or cell in Grid 1, and select to map to different database connection (with

same or different chart of accounts and other dimensionality)

However, there are mappings that will have to be considered throughout this, and can become

more work than Option 1, and more to maintain.

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Referencing other Grids

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FR Report by Different Tree Versions

Use different Fusion tree versions to analyze same data.
2012 balances using 2012 version and proposed 2013 version

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Saving FR Objects to Repository and Insert

Save FR Objects on Repository (Shared Folders) to be used for other

reports
Select Object (Grid, Text, Image, Chart) ->File->Save Object
Can link to Source Object.
Make 1 report the Source. Update only that 1 object.

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General Other Helpful Hints

Studio->Open Report->File->Page Setup->
Select Custom Workspace Size - when the Report pallet in Studio does

not have enough length or width

Select Fit to Page Options - for printing in pdf on a page.

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Folder Structure Best Practices

Decide folder structure early and keep consistent across all

environments.
Some functionalities (Related Contents) rely on a full url path (which
includes folder path)

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Folder and Report Security

Using roles/users, setup security on folders and reports.

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Changing Database Connection

From Workspace, this utility changes database connection 1 report at a time.
Try to ensure that database connection names folder structures are consistent across

environments so that when they are imported to target environment, you dont have to
manually change the db connection with this utility in Workspace

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Migrating and Backing Up Reports

Migrating Reports between environments (Test to Production, CRP1 to

CRP2, etc.)
For different environment you must use: Setup Manager Utility

(Configuration Package).
For different environment, do not use Workspace->File->Export/Import
Reason: Only the Setup Manager Utility ensures that FR member ids are

derived correctly across different environments

Migrating reports within same environment
Backup reports frequently (if same environment: From Workspace->File-

>Export/Import)

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Tip: When FR Studio is Not Responding

FR Studio looks like it is not responding
You think you have to Control + Alt + Delete to shut it down
Wait

The member selector window is open in the background

This happens when working in Studio, open member selector, and then

go check email (or any other application). Alt tab back to Studio and it
looks like it is not responding
Only way around this is to Alt Tab back to the Null window
FR Studio will start responding again and show the Member Selector
Window
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Other Resources: UPK Recordings (Viewlets)

This is 1 zip with detailed viewlets:
Similar material on FR studio
FR Books (from Workspace)
FR Batches (from Workspace)
All viewlets take about 20-25 minutes total

Unzip Financial Reporting and Analysis.zip file, find file called

play.exe and run

Contact Customer Connect forum for url location (tbd)

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Other Resources: FR Studio User Guide

Can be found in from this link to R7 Oracle documentation.
FR guides can be found in bottom left of the page

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Example: Range from Relative Member (Qtrly Income Statement)

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Example: Range from Relative Member (Qtrly Income Statement)

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Example: Range from Relative Member (Qtrly Income Statement)

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Example: Range from Relative Member (Qtrly Income Statement)

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