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FSG Tips and Tricks
By Melanie Cameron
About Melanie Cameron 14 years experience with EBS Worked on every release since 10.6, oldest
release was 9.x 20 years experience in Finance, including
banking, mortgage, manufacturing, SOX compliance and IPO’s 5 year member of the AZOAUG
Board of Directors A Funcno Techno consultant who Prefers knitting over palm pilots
About MSS Technologies, Inc
Established in 1989 Located in Phoenix and Denver Deliver business application solutions to the Mid
Market: - ERP, BI, Data Warehousing, Application
Development Services, Strategic IT Planning MSS Vision:
- “Innovate the way business management solutions are delivered and eliminate the word failure from the information systems vocabulary.”
Tip #1
If it works……..
Don’t change it
Anatomy of an FSG
Account Override Options
On Report – enter Segment Override Add a Content Set When running, add Segment Override or
Content Set On Column Set – Add Override Value
Remember, a segment must be included at the Lowest level to be Overridden at a Higher level!
Row Sets
Define Row Sets
Account Assignments
Calculations
Using Row Numbers:
Using Row Names:
Row Tips
Number your Lines 10, 20, 30- Leave Room for growth
Skip and Page Break – be consistent on Before and After
- Easier to create consistent looking reports Row Names in Calculates are easier to see
what the calculation is doing- WARNING: sometimes this leads to inaccurate
results when adding Rows that have Calculations in them
Row Tips
Use Display Zero to add proofing rows or columns to your report
- They display only when there is a problem – Assets does not equal Liabilities plus Owners Equity, or a zero balance account is not zero
Using ICM? If this is an audited Financial Statement, or one that is linked to your controls, you may want to use Ranges instead of Parent accounts
- ICM will not see all the Child accounts under a parent, only the Parent Account, which is not the account being audited nor the one that relates to the control
Column Sets
Define Column Sets
Budgets and Forecasts? Define Control Values on the Report and select them on
the Row and Column Sets to determine which budget numbers are used on the Report
What goes on a Column set vs Row set?
Column Set Company or Dept
assignments for column breakout
Column Calculations Format Options Level of Detail Control Values Offsets
Row Set Row Titles Account Assignments Row Calculations Format Options Level of Detail
Build Columns
Column Tips
Make the Number formats at least one over the largest current number
- Allows room for growth and formulas When creating columns, assign them all a width
of 10- Use the Build Columns, you can adjust the widths in
a graphical interface that gives a better visual image Clicking on Build Column Set will override any
previous column formats you had saved- Not bad or good – just something to be aware of
Content Sets
Content Set Tips
These are buggy! Sometimes they do not give you the results you expect – if it works, leave it alone
If a copied set gives different results, check the manual or a white paper, and only change the one that is wrong
Row Order
Row Order Tips
The Width on the row order sometimes needs to be 1 wider then the actual segment to display
ADI
Did you know you can define FSG’s in ADI?
ADI – Define Report
ADI – Define Report
ADI – Define Report
ADI – Define Report
Maintenance
Auto Copy- Will not copy over the
same name in the targetdatabase
Database Links- This requires the apps password – if you setup a
new user name and password, ensure it has the proper Write access
FSG’s running slow
Remove any disabled companies from Content Sets
Ensure all segments of the Accounting Key Flexfield are setup to be Indexed
Run Program> Optimizer- Gather Statistics- Re-indexes the Segments, or Indexes them if it was
just turned on Work with your DBA if this is the first time using this report
or turning on Indexing
Hierarchy of Data
Request overrides everything Report overrides Components Content Set overrides Column
and Row Sets
Row always overrides Column
Amount Type Offset Control Value Format Factor Display Zero Level of Detail
Column always overrides Row
Calculation – when check box is checked Activity (DR, CR or Net)
No Override Rules
Accounts – uses intersecting from Row and Column
Summary – must be same as Row and Column Currency – must assign same currency for
intersecting columns and row, or will display 0 Change Sign (and on Variance)– Defaults to
No, Yes anywhere will override
Running and Publishing Reports
Options:- Concurrent Request
Formatting limited
- ADI Runs as Excel or HTML Control questionable because it has 100% of Excel
functionality Allows drill downs on lines that are Parent Accounts or
Account Ranges for analysis purposes
- XML Publisher Limits analysis available with ADI
Concurrent Request
ADI
XML Publisher
Differences?
ADI – Can drill down XML – Can publish securely Concurrent Manager – Limited space and
formatting
What’s coming in R12?
FSG’s publish with Report Manager Users are working with Oracle to have
ADI like features available
Questions?
Contact Information
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FSG Tips and Tricks White Paper:
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and click on FSG White Paper