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FSG Tips and Tricks
By Melanie Cameron
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About Melanie Cameron 14 years experience with EBS
Worked on every release since 10.6, oldestrelease was 9.x
20 years experience in Finance, includingbanking, mortgage, manufacturing,
SOX compliance and IPOs
5 year member of the AZOAUG
Board of Directors A Funcno Techno consultant who
Prefers knitting over palm pilots
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About MSS Technologies, Inc
Established in 1989
Located in Phoenix and Denver
Deliver business application solutions to the MidMarket:
- ERP, BI, Data Warehousing, ApplicationDevelopment Services, Strategic IT Planning
MSS Vision:- Innovate the way business management solutionsare delivered and eliminate the word failure from theinformation systems vocabulary.
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Tip #1
If it works..
Dont change it
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Anatomy of an FSG
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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!
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Row Sets
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Define Row Sets
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Account Assignments
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Calculations
Using Row Numbers:
Using Row Names:
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Row Tips
Number your Lines 10, 20, 30- Leave Room for growth
Skip and Page Break be consistent on Beforeand 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 inaccurateresults when adding Rows that have Calculations inthem
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Row Tips
Use Display Zero to add proofing rows or columns toyour report
- They display only when there is a problem Assets does notequal Liabilities plus Owners Equity, or a zero balance accountis not zero
Using ICM? If this is an audited Financial Statement, orone 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 theParent Account, which is not the account being audited nor theone that relates to the control
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Column Sets
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Define Column Sets
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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
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What goes on a Column set vs
Row set?
Column Set
Company or Dept
assignments for columnbreakout
Column Calculations
Format Options
Level of Detail
Control Values
Offsets
Row Set
Row Titles
Account Assignments
Row Calculations
Format Options
Level of Detail
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Build Columns
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Column Tips
Make the Number formats at least one over thelargest 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 anyprevious column formats you had saved
- Not bad or good just something to be aware of
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Content Sets
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Content Set Tips
These are buggy! Sometimes they do notgive 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
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Row Order
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Row Order Tips
The Width on the row order sometimes
needs to be 1 wider then the actualsegment to display
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ADI
Did you know you can define FSGs in
ADI?
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ADIDefine Report
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ADIDefine Report
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ADIDefine Report
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ADIDefine Report
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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 theproper Write access
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FSGs running slow
Remove any disabled companies from ContentSets
Ensure all segments of the Accounting KeyFlexfield are setup to be Indexed
Run Program> Optimizer- Gather Statistics
- Re-indexes the Segments, or Indexes them if it wasjust turned onWork with your DBA if this is the first time using this report
or turning on Indexing
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Hierarchy of Data
Request overrides everything
Report overrides Components
Content Set overrides Column
and Row Sets
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Row always overrides Column
Amount Type
Offset
Control Value
Format
Factor
Display Zero
Level of Detail
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Column always overrides Row
Calculation when check box is checked
Activity (DR, CR or Net)
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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 toNo, Yes anywhere will override
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Running and Publishing Reports
Options:- Concurrent Request
Formatting limited- ADIRuns as Excel or HTML
Control questionable because it has 100% of Excelfunctionality
Allows drill downs on lines that are Parent Accounts orAccount Ranges for analysis purposes
- XML PublisherLimits analysis available with ADI
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Concurrent Request
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ADI
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XML Publisher
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Differences?
ADI Can drill down
XML Can publish securely
Concurrent Manager Limited space and
formatting
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Whats coming in R12?
FSGs publish with Report Manager
Users are working with Oracle to haveADI like features available
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Questions?
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Contact Information
To Download a copy of theFSG Tips and Tricks White Paper:
www.MSSTech.comand click on FSG White Paper
mailto:[email protected]://www.msstech.com/http://www.msstech.com/mailto:[email protected]