Ribbons

Note:

Smart View is designed to work optimally with the ribbon structure of Microsoft Office 2007 or later, but you can use Smart View with Office 2003 to connect to most data sources through the Smart View menu (with the exception of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition). The organization of items on the Office 2003 menu is analogous to that of the ribbon structure.

You access Smart View functionality in Office applications through ribbon commands. The Smart View ribbon, which contains commands for common Smart View operations and for Reporting and Analysis operations, is always present. When you connect to a data source (other than Reporting and Analysis or Financial Close Management), the corresponding data source ribbon is also displayed. Each of these ribbons displays only the commands supported for that data source and mode.

For Planning, Financial Management, and Hyperion Enterprise, when you enter ad hoc analysis (see Ad Hoc Analysis), the data source ribbon is replaced by its ad hoc version. The ribbons are as follows: