XBRL in Financial Reporting

In This Section:

XBRL Terms

Setting Up Financial Reporting for XBRL

Using XBRL Management

Managing XBRL Context

Assigning XBRL Line Items to Rows

Using XBRL Facts in Text Objects and Text Cells

Using XBRL Footnotes in Text Objects and Text Cells

Exporting the Instance Document

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) functionality in Financial Reporting enables you to create XBRL instance documents. The designer can take a report, attach XBRL metadata, then export the report as an instance document. XBRL Instance documents can be created using Financial Management, Planning, SAP BW, or Oracle Essbase data sources.

XBRL is an XML-based (eXtensible Markup Language) framework that provides the business community with a standards-based method to prepare, publish in a variety of formats, reliably extract, and automatically exchange financial statements.

For additional information relating to XBRL, see the XBRL International website (http://www.xbrl.org).

Note:

The functionality in this release supports the XBRL 2.1 specifications. Therefore, when a report is opened using a XBRL 2.0 schema, the unsupported metadata must be removed. If you choose this option, you must map line items that point to the 2.1 schema, create context and units as required in the new release. If you do not wish to remove the metadata, you can close the report.