What is changing in EPM Cloud from Jan 2021 – Part 1

 

This blog will cover the important changes effective from Jan or later in 2021, I will share this again….

 

REDWOOD USER EXPERIENCE

As part of the new Redwood experience, we are introducing the Dynamic Tabs feature only within the Redwood theme in the 21.02 update. Dynamic Tabs will allow you to open tabs on the fly, both from a list view or from an existing navigation flow tab to perform related actions. Some use case examples: view drill through from a form in a new temporary tab; view a form in design mode; open Web ad hoc from a form or dashboard; open forms from right-click menus; open dimensions on the fly to view how members are calculated.

New Row and Column Suppression Behavior for EPM Cloud!!

I am sure you will love this exciting new feature released in Smartview  11.1.2.5.720

NewRow and Column Suppression Behaviour for EPM Cloud

This feature applies to these EPM Cloud services:

• Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud
• Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud

In web applications, your administrator can use the Smart View Suppression Behavior option to change suppression behavior when both the Smart View No Data/Missing and Zero suppression options for rows, or columns, or both are selected.

Quick Tip - Oracle Smart View disable for Outlook

Had an instance where one of the customers had installed the Oracle SmartView for accessing the Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud. After the installation, the Microsoft Outlook didn’t get started and was staying in the screen starting for a quite long time.

This was quite annoying, but luckily there is an easy solution to the issue. There is life saver option given in SmartView under Options -> Advanced.

With this option, Smart view will be disabled in Outlook and will not hamper the time to load the Outlook. Hope this helps.

Smart View Error and easy fix to that - PBC/EPC

We all might have seen this common error in Smart View in On-premise or in the Cloud instance (PBC, EPC etc...). It a very common error message which says there is no data for the selected combination of the POV. 

 What if you are sure that there is data in the application for the selected POV or it was working before for the same selected POV and the same sheet is throwing an error now. Ya, that is an embarrassment right??

We will be talking about the situation where it was working before and no changes is being made to the Excel sheet and the same Excel sheet is throwing the error message “Ad hoc grid can not be opened as there are no valid rows of data.”

  

It was reported as a bug and got fixed in 11.1.2.3.505, but I could still see this behavior in the latest version of the Smart View 11.1.2.5.720.

But the good news is the same old solution still works here with a little twist, all you have to do is

• If the Suppress rows are "Enabled" for "No Data/Missing" – disable the checkbox
• If the Suppress rows are "Disabled" for "No Data/Missing" – enable the checkbox

And you are all set, you will see the data coming with a refresh of the sheet, hope this was helpful today!!!!