Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.

Date	What’s Changed	Notes
04 MAR 2016		Initial Document Creation

Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, March Update

Announcements and New Features

Upgraded Financial Report Chart Rendering Engine

Starting with this release, Financial Reporting uses an upgraded charting engine to improve report visualization. Because of the inherent differences between the old and new rendering engines, this upgrade has some impact on the rendered chart output and behavior. While Oracle has focused on maintaining the existing charting functionality, chart outputs from the upgraded engine may differ from those created using the old engine. See Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting Charting for detailed information.

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this release. This version provides bug fixes and enhanced access to command reference. You must install this release between now and May 6, 2016 to ensure compatibility. See Installing Clients for instructions.

New Sort Filters for Planning Process Management Approvals

Starting this release, new sort filters are available in the Approval Status, Sub-status, Current Owner, Location, and Total Value columns of the Process Status screen. The new filter in the Total Value column provides a search box that you can use to search and list multiple values for approval/promotion.

New Planning Job Type to Clear Database

Starting this release, you can create a Planning job—Clear Database—that clears data from a database. While creating a Clear Database job, you select a plan type and a desired action, which are then scheduled like other Planning jobs.

New Financial Reporting Web Studio

This release includes Financial Reporting Web Studio, a web-based report authoring solution. Similar in look and feel to the Windows-based Financial Reporting Studio, the Financial Reporting Web Studio incorporates usability improvements and report design paradigms. This release includes most of the functionality currently available in the Windows Financial Reporting Studio.

The existing Windows Financial Reporting Studio will still be available. Because the report definitions remain the same, you can edit existing reports using the Windows or web version of the Financial Reporting Studio. See Designing with Financial Reporting Studio for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud for detailed information.

Financial Reporting Web Studio Limitations and Workarounds

• Only Service Administrators can save new report designs using this release of the Financial Reporting Web Studio.
• HTML Preview from the Windows Studio Designer does not work in this release. Use the Web Studio Designer, Simplified Interface, or Workspace to preview reports instead.
• Reports with bar charts support solid bar border style only. All other bar border styles are ignored.
• Point values may not be displayed in the HTML preview of a chart that contains a large image. To display the point value, resize the image, the bar width, or decrease font sizes.
• Previously selected data range may not appear as selected in the Chart Properties screen.
• In Financial Reporting charts, bar shape options such as Triangle bar, Diamond Bar, and Cylinder Bar that were available in the previous release as combo chart format options are not supported. Bar is the only bar shape option available in this release.
• In reports containing combo charts, clicking the Refresh button may cause the Primary and secondary axis labels to be hidden even if you selected the settings to display these labels in the report.
• Grid depth and smooth font options are not available in Financial Reporting charts in this release.
• Reports with pie charts support solid bar border style only. All other bar border styles are ignored.
• Proper min, max, and step tic values on the yaxis and y2axis do not always display correctly. The min label is not always present. Also, the step by value doesn't always increment from the min value (or decrements from the max value).
• Financial Reporting Web Studio does not display hidden system level folders such as Administration, Broadcast Messages, Crystal Ball Workbooks and System. Additionally, folders that users mark as hidden (new and existing folders marked as hidden by changing their properties) are not displayed after the next refresh operation.
  To display hidden folders in Financial Reporting Web Studio, open the Properties screen for the folders, then deselect (uncheck) the hidden check box, and then perform a refresh operation.

Defects Fixed

Defect Number	Description
22706538	On signing out of a Simplified Interface session, you are now redirected to the sign in screen of the Simplified Interface.
22679909/ 22385030	The importmetadata EPM Automate command now works as documented.
22535579	In Smart View, you no longer receive the threshold error when zooming in on the bottom level after enabling the Suppress Missing Rows option on a suppressed grid that does not exceed threshold limit.
22620527	Properties added by selecting Apply Context from the master form are now available even after opening the attachment in PDF format.
22512967	You no longer receive the Requested JSON parse failed error while opening some Planning forms in the Simplified Interface.
22498572	You can now use a color of your choice in Financial Reporting to format cells with no data. Cells with no data do not inherit the color designated for displaying negative values.
22393146	In localized versions of the service, Financial Reporting renders HTML reports correctly even if the report POV contains member names with special characters.
22240080/ 21150015	Performance improvements have been made to in Financial reporting Studio to speed up the loading of the Member dialog box.
22010998	Financial Reporting reports are now accessible from the Simplified Interface of the service.
21614806	Financial Reporting batch output exported as single web page (MHTML) no longer repeats member selections in all the reports in the book.
20882303	Formula rows in Planning web and in Smart View now display identical descriptions when dimension alias are selected in the Form Layout.
19629978	Smart View now displays shared members in the Member Selector.