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To use the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition-related features in Smart View, you must have Oracle BI EE release 11.1.1.7.1 or any patches to the 11.1.1.7.1 release.

Starting with Smart View 11.1.2.5.510, the Oracle BI EE per-user extension installer is included with the Smart View client installation.

The extension is installed the first time the user starts Office if the Oracle BI EE extension is not already installed and it is not disabled.

21888550 -- If you have installed Smart View 11.1.2.5.510 or later, and you want to go to a pre-11.1.2.5.510 version, you must first perform these steps to remove the Oracle BI EE extension installation:

To use the multiple connection and View Designer features described below, obtain the Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.7.140527 patch. Go to My Oracle Support, Patches & Updates tab, and search by “Product or Family.” In the Product field, select Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition; in the Release field, select OBI EE 11.1.1.7.140527.

21260884 -- The Excel process remained active even after a VB script stopped running.

21463288 -- Excel closed abruptly when VBA code contained a large number of retrieves.

21917209 -- The HypGetSheetOption and HypSetSheetOption functions were not working for Member Name Display options.

21920082, 21928686, 22091686 -- The cursor was not visible in the Password field in Excel.

21974318 -- If a worksheet used Excel filtering, when an ad hoc query or refresh is performed, the formatting changed. Subsequent refreshes failed with a “Member out of place” error.

22029092 -- Smart View attempted to open the log file location even when the logging option was disabled.

22093305 -- Export in query-ready format generated Essbase Error 1020032.

20221501 -- A Smart View session timeout message was displayed even in cases where a valid SSO token was available.

21888981 -- Refresh inserts the letter “C” after the caret symbol in the alias name causing subsequent refresh operations to fail since the member name is not recognized.

21889045 -- In the Document Contents pane, the Modify Connection operation did not work on corrupted worksheets.

22158054 -- Using the HypSetAliasTable function resulted in a grid copied over existing grid.

22250386 -- Submit Data (with refresh) worked incorrectly in some cases where Excel formulas were used.

22373021 -- Using Smart View 11.1.2.5.400 or later to open a multiple-grid workbook created prior to 11.1.2.3.xxx resulted in an “operation failed” error.

21220218 -- Business Rules launched in Smart View do not honor the limits applied. Instead all the descendents are shown.

21693216 -- In Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, refreshing a form after changing a member in the drop-down POV occasionally takes a long time.

21793724 -- In Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, data is not refreshed when a formula is used for member name.

21827175 -- In Smart Forms containing a formula then opened in ad hoc mode, the formulas were shifted down one row. Additionally, the formulas would shift down one row on each subsequent refresh.

22125713 -- For multiple grid sheets, named ranges needed to be deleted using the Name Manager in Excel in order to reuse the cells in these ranges.

14233719 -- If you are upgrading to this release from a Smart View PSE release, Oracle recommends that you first uninstall the PSE release and then install this release.

17662148 -- On 64-bit operating systems, the Smart View silent install does not complete successfully for non-admin users.

22347894 -- Sometimes, after uninstalling Smart View and subsequently launching Excel, Excel may still try to find the Smart View HsTbar.xla file.

Workaround:

11934177, 12569072, 18057207 -- Smart View does not support Excel’s Transition navigation keys option. Due to a Microsoft limitation, many of the Microsoft APIs that Smart View depends on for both Smart View and Excel functionality do not work when the Transition navigation keys option is enabled. For more information on this issue, see “Transition Navigation Keys Not Supported” in the Oracle Smart View for Office Installation and Configuration Guide, “Tips and Troubleshooting” chapter.

13987451 -- When working with larger workbooks, or performing an operation that results in a large data set, a “not enough resources” error may occur.

Workarounds:

14456134 -- Various issues may arise when the Excel option, Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), is selected. For example, there are problems launching Excel, launching Excel files from outside of Excel, and using the Export in Query Ready Mode option from a browser to export balances from Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting.

Workaround: Click the Microsoft Office Button (upper left corner of Excel), and then click Excel Options. In the Advanced category, scroll down to the General options, and then clear the Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchance (DDE) check box. Restart Excel.

16554169 -- On computers where Smart View is installed, an error occurs when updating links in PowerPoint that were copied from Excel to PowerPoint.

16835531 -- Smart View does not support number formatting of Function Grids imported from Smart Slices.

17164523 -- The selected POV members are reverted to dimension members after deleting some columns and refreshing the spreadsheet.

Workaround: Click the POV button to hide the POV toolbar. Then ensure that you do not delete the column that contains the Page members.

17215221 -- On Microsoft Surface Pro tablets, in the Task List pane, the text does not does display correctly in the Action Panel and in Task Details. Items in these areas are squeezed together vertically, causing the fonts to be cut off at the bottom of each item.

18115776 -- When extensions are enabled in Smart View, cascading a report with a large number of members can cause Excel to stop responding.

Workaround: From the Smart View Options dialog box, Extensions page, disable any extensions that are installed. Restart Excel and repeat the cascade operation.

20364435 -- After pasting dynamic data points in Word, then clicking the Manage POV button and changing the POV member selection for one or more dimensions, the selections are not retained upon clicking Close.

20866653 -- Launching Smart View from a web browser does not work unless Excel is already open.

20958232 -- In Oracle Hyperion Planning and Financial Management forms, after copying a cell, only a single paste is allowed. Pasting into subsequent cells is not supported.

Workaround: After pasting the cell once, you must copy the cell again in order to paste it into another cell.

21355132, 21691927 -- Copying a Smart List or Text List cell and pasting it over three or more cells causes Excel stop responding.

21607945 -- An invalid row height or column width error can occur when performing a Refresh All on certain workbooks.

21803394 -- Microsoft Word suspends or terminates unexpectedly after inserting several reporting objects in succession.

21810748 -- In Excel, copying a sheet containing a POV or slider to another sheet in the workbook results in an error.

21820253 -- In some cases, in workbooks with multiple sheets where each sheet contains a different query or template, if you drag the POV toolbar to the top of a sheet and dock it, you may see two POV toolbars on that sheet. This can occur on any number of sheets where the POV toolbar has been docked.

Workaround: Click the X in the right corner of one of the POV toolbars to close it, or refresh the sheet.

21844115 -- In the Japanese version of Smart View, in some of the Diagnostics dialog boxes, the Browse button was overlapping other dialog elements.

21850033 -- In PowerPoint, you can duplicate a slide containing a POV or slider, but importing the metadata results in an error.

21866540 -- To use the new Import Metadata in PowerPoint feature, you must select a single slide to begin the import process. An error message is displayed if you attempt to invoke the import metadata functionality when either no slide is selected or multiple slides are selected.

22280411 -- There are compatibility issues between Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management andSmart View, causing Smart View to terminate unexpectedly on right-clicks.

14275486 -- When Disclosure Management doclets are combined into master documents, table autofit formatting may be lost.

18347708 -- Disclosure Management 11.1.2.4.0.78 will always trigger the autodeployment process. To work around this issue, update the version number for Disclosure Management in the Smart View UpdateList.xml file:

From: version="11.1.2.4.078"

To: version="11.1.2.4.0.78"

For information on modifying the UpdateList.xml file, see the Oracle Smart View for Office User's Guide, “Administering Extension Installations and Updates” topics.

18076474 -- Formulas are not retained on the worksheet after performing an Undo and then a Redo.

11841013 -- You may not be able to change members in a Smart List.

12890030 -- If you change alias tables, members that you drag from the POV toolbar to the grid may be lost.

12913962 -- When you associate a connection to an ad hoc worksheet using Set Active Connection, members may disappear from the worksheet when you refresh.

Workaround: Instead of associating a connection, perform direct ad hoc analysis on the worksheet.

13854982 -- When filtering on attributes at the Generation 3 level in an attribute dimension, Smart View only displays members up to the Generation 2 level.

14470264 -- The HsGetVariable function does not support non-ASCII variable values.

16607593 -- When executing an MDX query with a calculated member (WITH MEMBER...) in Excel, the calculated values appear for a very short time in the sheet column and then are converted to a comment column. All calculated values are lost either automatically or by performing a Refresh.

This occurs whether you are using the Execute MDX command in the Essbase ribbon, or the VBA function, HypMDXExecute.

18480728 -- In multiple-grid sheets, submitting data values '0 and &nd does not work properly when the #No Data/Missing Label is set to '0 or &nd.

19134780 -- Connection information for multiple-grid sheets cannot be updated using VBA.

19181853, 19335608 -- Excel memory use increases with each Refresh operation on function-only worksheets and certain ad hoc reports.

19190415 -- When the POV toolbar is displayed, an error is returned upon refresh.

19930163 -- In the following environment: Windows 8.1, 32-bit with Office 2013, 32-bit, while performing ad hoc operations, Excel may become unresponsive to right-clicks within the sheet; for example, when attempting to pivot using drag-and-drop.

22159359 -- Starting with Smart View 11.1.2.5.520, when connected to duplicate member databases, the member name only should display by default in the POV. However, for workbooks saved in Smart View 11.1.2.5.510 and earlier, the qualified member name displays in the POV.

Workaround: To change the display of member names in the POV, open the Member Selection dialog box from the POV, then click OK.

22168018 -- Starting with Smart View 11.1.2.5.520, when connected to duplicate member databases, the member name only should display by default in the Query Designer POV. However, even though the Member Name Only option is selected (in the Options dialog box, Member Options tab), the fully qualified member name is displayed in the Query Designer POV.

Workaround: To change the display of member names in the Query Designer POV, open the Member Selection dialog box from the Query Designer POV, then click OK.

16898574 -- Some style preferences set on forms from within Financial Management are not honored on forms in Smart View.

17632970 -- In Smart View 11.1.2.1.103, after submitting a cell that has pipe character(|) and caret(^), the submitting removes all pipe characters and adds “c” after any caret.

Workaround: Do not create cell text with a caret or pipe character.

17591100 -- Member search does not work on forms that contain the Add Member button.

18252228 -- In Financial Management ad hoc grids, when connecting by performing a refresh, the Smart Slice and Cascade commands are grayed out in the HFM Ad Hoc ribbon.

18512314 -- When using Find Next in the Member Selection dialog box, the first member that matches the search criteria is located, but clicking Find Next again does not locate any other relevant members.

18861859 -- In Financial Management forms, Member Selection dialog box, the selections available in the View and Filters options are not consistent with the selections available for the same form in the Financial Management web application.

19062362 -- When ad hoc analysis is performed on a Smart Slice, the last cube view context is sent to the provider server for all sheets in the workbook. When trying to create a function on the next sheet, the Member Selection dialog box will show only the members in the Smart Slice .

Workaround: In the next sheet, perform ad hoc analysis on the application to reset the cube view context before launching the Function Builder.

19827684 -- When working with Financial Management ad hoc, and copying and pasting cells from Excel to Word, formatting is not retained even though the Use Excel Formatting option is selected.

20726025 -- In Windows 8x versions, if the Member Name Display option is set to “Member Name and Description,” you may get an “Invalid members” error when trying to save a journal. This can be the result of the size of the Excel window onscreen.

Workaround: Try unfreezing panes in Excel using the View, then Freeze Panes, and then Unfreeze Panes command. Also, you may reduce the display size to 75% or 50% before opening or creating the journal.

21158205, 21438712 -- In Entity Details, the View, Rows functionality is not available in Smart View.

When working correctly, this functionality would be accessed from the drop-down menu when you click View, then Rows in the Entity Details dialog box (as described in “Selecting Rows for the Report” in the Oracle Smart View for Office User's Guide.

You can use select and view rows from the Financial Management web interface. This functionality will be fully supported in a later version of Financial Management.

21847984 -- In Oracle Journals, when the Region and Language settings are set to a European language such as Swedish, values are truncated and do not display correctly. When set to English, the values are truncated but can be expanded to display correctly. Values display correctly when the Region and Language settings are set to an Asian language, such as Japanese.

14600458 -- When exporting a Financial Reporting report from Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Workspace to Smart View, the user POV for the report is not retained. The user POV defaults to the user POV used most recently in Smart View.

14643318 -- An “Invalid Pointer” error results during login when the data source connection has timed out and you attempt to refresh a previously-saved report that contains a function grid.

Workaround: Close the workbook and Excel. Then, restart Excel, open the workbook, and perform the refresh.

19827684 -- Formatting is not retained when copying and pasting cells from Excel to Word.

22330209 -- On Windows 10 with Office 2016 64-bit, you cannot launch Financial Reporting reports when Internet Explorer is running in protected mode.

Workaround:

14345387 -- Smart View does not support direct insert of stepped and curved line charts. When inserting a stepped or curved line chart, Smart View will substitute the closest match, a default line chart. This is expected behavior.

14355587 -- Selection lists specified for prompts in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers (radio button lists and check box lists) are converted to list controls in Smart View. This is expected behavior.

14563557 -- Checking or clearing the “Use unified scale” option in BI Answers requires that you use the “Replace View” option when refreshing in Smart View. This is expected behavior.

For information on setting refresh preferences, see “Specifying Preferences for Refreshing Views” in the “Smart View and Oracle BI EE” chapter of the Oracle Smart View for Office User's Guide.

14580332 -- Time zone preferences set in Oracle BI EE account preferences are not exposed in Smart View.

14600296 -- In the Prompt Selector, there is a limit of 256 items that can be displayed in drop-down list controls or option lists.

Workaround: Increase the value of the setting in Prompts/MaxDropDownValues in instance.config in BI Answers.

14737958, 14750088 -- In View Designer, you cannot create a view with a column of numeric type on the Page or Section edges.

15840478 -- Pie charts are not refreshed after adding a filter in BI Answers if the filter added is on a dimension that defines the number of pies that display.

Workaround: If there is a change in a filter column that is also defined as a number-of-pies dimension, then you should change the refresh option on the chart view to Replace View, and then perform another refresh. This ensures a correct refresh, updating the number of pies and the chart titles that correctly reflect the new data.

See “Specifying Preferences for Refreshing Views ” in the Oracle Smart View for Office User's Guide for instructions.

15840538 -- Pie charts are not refreshed after removing a filter in BI Answers if the filter removed is on a dimension that defines the number of pies that display.

Workaround: See the workaround specified for bug 15840478.

15886617 -- The precision of digits that Smart View can display in Excel is limited to the precision of digits allowed by Excel.

For example, the following is an 18-digit number formatted with two decimal places:

123456789123456789.12

Because of Excel's 15-digit precision limitation, the digits after the 15th digit are changed to zeroes in Excel and the number would be displayed as follows:

123456789123456000.00

15969695 -- On Office 2007, a memory error occurs when inserting a chart into PowerPoint.

Workaround: Install Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3.

16373849 -- When inserting multiple objects from a compound view into PowerPoint and selecting the “one object per slide” option, an Excel instance is opened for each object and then minimized in the Windows Taskbar. However, when the insert operation is complete, the Excel instances are not automatically closed. This can clutter the Taskbar when inserting a large number of objects.

Workaround: To minimize the number of Excel instances shown in the Taskbar, click the Office button (in the upper left corner of Excel), select Excel Options, and then select the Advanced tab. In Display options, clear the Show all windows in the Taskbar check box.

16055532 -- When pivot tables that contain embedded pivot charts are inserted into Smart View, the embedded pivot charts are not imported.

Workarounds: You can either use Excel to create a pivot chart based on an inserted Excel pivot table or use BI Answers to create a new chart view and insert that view using Smart View.

In both workarounds, the pivot chart is rendered.

16285804 -- If a prompt is defined on double columns, and the prompt operator selected is * Prompt User, the following operators do not work at runtime:

Workaround: Do not use the * Prompt User operator. Instead, define the operator explicitly at design time, using one of the operators listed above. The operators will then work.

16520355 -- In Word and PowerPoint, there can be some overlapping of tables and charts when inserting a compound view or when a compound view is either inserted from the catalog or copied and pasted. This is especially true when any of the objects in the compound view are particularly large.

19717930 -- Clicking OK in the View Designer after the session is timed out returns an object reference error.

19724894 -- An exception occurs when trying to insert a compound view after a session timeout.

20669893 -- A date prompt that was created with user input set to text and the default value set to SQL that shows the current date results in the current_date SQL being shown in the prompt and not the actual current date.

21795612 -- In environments where the Oracle BI EE server locale and the Smart View client locale are different, the names of Oracle BI EE artifacts in Smart View—such as views, titles, tables, and graphics—display in the language of the Oracle BI EE server locale instead of the Smart View client locale.

21977076 -- Note the following behaviors involving connection to the Oracle BI EE server:

6533549, 6549255 -- If a member cell contains a formula that calculates the value for a summary time period, that cell should be locked, but instead, Smart View may mark it as dirty if the data for the member is modified.

14834659 -- When substitution variables are used, the last column (the right-most column) on Oracle Hyperion Web Analysis forms is dropped or hidden when the form is opened in Smart View.

16721734 -- In specifying a Replacement option as #NumericZero (Options dialog box, Data Options tab), and then spreading data for Time Periods, the parent data could not be deleted.

Workaround: Ensure that the Replacement option, Submit zero, is selected when #NumericZero is also selected.

16898574 -- Some style preferences set on forms from within Planning are not honored on forms in Smart View.

17926504 -- Ad hoc analysis started from a saved Planning grid will inherit the formatting options saved as part of the grid.

To use Smart View Cell Styles or the Use Excel Formatting option for an ad hoc grid generated from a saved grid, complete the following steps:

18421689 -- In Smart View, the display order of business rules attached to a form differs from the display order in Planning.

19016350 -- Smart Forms do not support constants (integers or numbers) in calculated cells.

Workaround: Use a formula format, such as ="Text" or =10 for grid labels consisting of constants.

19439940 -- When using the FVSCHEDULE function in Smart Forms, use cell references to existing data, rather than arrays of data.

For example, use:

=FVSCHEDULE(C10,B15:B17)

Do not use:

=FVSCHEDULE(C10,{0.09,0.11,0.1})

19685022 -- Number formatting is not retained when copying data points from Excel to Word or PowerPoint.

19843672 -- In Oracle Hyperion Planning forms, when working with user variables, selecting a substitution variable as a value of a user variable is not supported.

20794274 -- Locking the Year Total cell and copying the distributed period values on months with alternative hierarchy results in an incorrect distribution.

20938289 -- When two forms are on two separate worksheets, the rule variable on one form changed to the default after refreshing the page dimension on the other form, causing the business rule to invoke an incorrect value for a runtime prompt variable.

21345664 -- In Smart View, the currency symbol in a cell is displayed differently from the Planning web interface when the Planning option, “Allow multiple currencies per entity,” is set to true.

21567487 -- Indentation of dimensions in a Planning form is displayed incorrectly.

6575786 -- Refresh and Refresh All do not work if two pages of a Oracle Hyperion Web Analysis report are imported sequentially.

Workaround: Use All Pages to import multiple pages of a report.

6908330 -- Oracle Hyperion Reporting and Analysis documents are not displayed in Import Workspace Document Folder Tree if EPM Workspace is under WebSeal and configured for a context path (http://<server>:<port>/<context path>/workspace) other than the default (http://<server>:<port>/workspace).

7674839 -- When you import a Financial Reporting report into Smart View and refresh, the worksheet becomes solid black, except for the cells imported from Financial Reporting.

Workaround: From the Excel Tools menu, select Options. On the Color tab, click Reset and then OK.

9160243 -- These issues exist with dashboards imported as images from Smart View into Excel, Word, and PowerPoint:

Workaround: In some cases, you may be able to resize the graphic to make it more usable. However, because of Microsoft Office limitations, any excess background space will always be present.

13875551 -- When you export an Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting report from Internet Explorer into Smart View, the Smart View ribbon disappears in Excel.

Workaround: Open Excel before exporting from Internet Explorer.