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Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, September Update
Announcements and New Features
Beginning in this release, Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud provides files for you to create a sample application. The sample application enables you to understand the capabilities of FCCS and model your own applications effectively. The sample application is named FCCS and includes pre-loaded metadata, data, and related artifacts.
NOTE: You must define at least one Power User and one Service Administrator in Financial Consolidation and Close prior to creating a sample application. See Managing Users and Roles.
The service now supports direct URL links to forms and dashboards. You can use direct page links to create a URL that points to a specific form or dashboard. If users have appropriate access permissions, they can use the URL to go directly to the form or dashboard to view or update it within Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud. For more information, see Integrating with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.
Location Security
In this release, Location Security has been enabled under Security Settings. Location security optionally allows a Service Administrator to assign users to specific Data Management Locations through user groups with a view to securing data and mapping rules for a user or a group of users.
For more information, see Administering Data Management for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.
The top-level Data Management folder has been renamed to Home. Previously, this folder was named Inbox; it contained inbox and outbox subfolders. With the rename, the Home folder now contains two subfolders: inbox and outbox.
This change does not impact your automation scripts.
Data Load into Other Services
Data from Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud can now be loaded directly into Planning and Budgeting Cloud, Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Account Reconciliation Cloud. Additionally, you can load data from the Fusion GL Cloud into Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud and Account Reconciliation Cloud. In prior releases data load was supported only for Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud.
Text-Based Data Load
The text-based data load feature enables users to load text data, dates, and smart lists to applications that support these data types. Additionally, users can load data files that include multiple balance columns for a selected calendar period.
Considerations
Be aware of the following considerations when working with Data Management:
- After you create an application and use Migration to import an extract, the Data Integration link may not appear in the Navigator after enabling a data load. If you log out and log in again, it will appear.
- When you use Migration to import an application that has a cell attachment in the form, the attachment may not import successfully.
Considerations
Be aware of the following considerations when working with Metadata:
- After upgrading an existing application, review any properties for seeded accounts that you made changes to, which may be reset to their default values, and update them if needed. You may also need to lock the seeded members.
- Although in some cases you may be able to, do not make changes of any sort to member properties other than Alias or Exchange Rate Type to seeded accounts. If you have made any property changes to any seeded members other than alias, these changes will revert to the default changes.
- You should not make metadata changes that result in the following:
- Making a base member to whom a journal has been posted a parent member
- Deleting a member
- When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root "Period" member on the grid. Make sure the root "Period" member is removed by either clicking "Remove Only" or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting "Keep Only". If a Period member is left on the grid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.
If there are Journals or Supplemental Data posted to those members, these changes can cause problems when accessing Journals or importing existing journals.
Change of Behavior: Planning Admin Extension
When you import a dimension using the Planning Admin Extension in Smart View, a predefined set of dimension metadata member properties is now displayed in the grid, instead of displaying all member properties on the grid. Use the Member Selection dialog box to add other metadata member properties to the grid. For more information, see "Default Metadata Dimension Members" in Oracle Cloud Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.
Changes to User Interface and Navigation Paths
The Simplified User Interface in release 16.09 includes incremental improvements for navigation and usability.
Oracle Cloud REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
Service administrators can use two tools to integrate their environments with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud: A set of REST APIs and the EPM Automate Utility, a command line tool that is implemented on top of the REST APIs. For more information, see REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.
Integrating with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
Integration information is now documented in the new Oracle Cloud Integrating with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud guide. This guide describes how service administrators can integrate their environments with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.
This release includes online Help and guides (Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, and Administering Data Management for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud) translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
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