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Application Guide for Oracle Self-Service E-Billing (Business Edition) > Cost and Budget Management Reports >
Service Budget Report
The user can use this use case to view budgeted amounts against actual charges incurred over a period of time. This is a sum of all charges, including taxes and rounding, if any, for all groups below the current selected hierarchy position. Table 63 lists and describes the use case functions.
Table 63. Service Budget Report
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Service Budget Report |
Primary Users |
Manager and administrator only |
Business Rule |
If there are more than 20 groups in the result set, the chart does not display. |
Standard Features |
- Printer-friendly view
- Download CSV or XML
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Configuration Points |
Report Threshold Value for Batch Mode. Determines the number of result set lines above which a report must process in batch mode instead of as an online download. You can set values for each type of download file:
- CSV. The maximum number of output lines.
- XML. A percentage of the CSV threshold value (Default is 20%).
For example, if the CSV report threshold is set to 3,000 result set lines, then an XML threshold value set at 20% must process in batch mode when it has 600 or more result set lines. |
Triggers |
- Cost Management
- Budget Report
- Available in both Billing and Business Hierarchy contexts.
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Chart |
Chart displays the Contract period budget for each Contract:
- X Axis: Contract Number.
- Y axis: Current Period Actual Charges and Current Period Budget.
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Main Path for Using Service Budget Report
The following path describes the Service Budget Report use case:
- The user selects the Cost Management tab.
- Oracle Self-Service E-Billing displays the Budget Reports, Budget Management, Cost Reallocation and Re-Bill subtabs.
- The user selects the Budget Reports tab.
- The user selects Service Budget Report.
- Oracle Self-Service E-Billing determines query parameters based on report context or defaults and returns:
Alternate Paths
Alternate paths can occur in this use case. The user modifies the query parameters
1 The user changes any of the query parameters on the Report tab or his or her hierarchy position and selects Display to execute report
- Oracle Self-Service E-Billing regenerates the report for the scope of selected reporting period and current hierarchy position.
Drill-down, The user selects the link for a group
Oracle Self-Service E-Billing recursively invokes the same report for the selected group, or if there are no more groups under the selected group, invokes the Subscription Call Details use case for the selected subscriber.
Exceptions
None.
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