Creating and Saving the Manifest File

Office 365 uses the Oracle Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser) manifest file to provide users with access to Smart View on a Mac or in a browser.

To create a manifest file:

1. Create a folder on your local drive for storing manifest files.
2. Log in to your cloud environment; for example:
   • If you are an Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud service administrator for Planning, log in to your Planning environment.
   • If you are an Oracle Essbase administrator, log in to your Essbase environment.
3. Once logged in, go to the Create Manifest File page, CreateManifest.html, by manually changing the business process URL as follows:

   For EPM Cloud environments:

   https://serviceURL/HyperionPlanning/CreateManifest.html

   For Essbase environments:

   https://serviceURL/essbase/sv/CreateManifest.html

   Note:

   If your browser language is set to one of the 27 non-English languages supported by the Smart View user interface, then the Create Manifest File page is displayed in that localized language. See Specifying Localized Versions of Smart View (Mac and Browser) for more information.

   See Figure 3-1 in About the Manifest File for an example of the Create Manifest File page.

4. Enter the required URLs in Domain URL, and then click the Add button, .

   Add application login domain URLs in the following scenarios:

   • Your environment uses more than one application login domain

     In this example, three domain URLs appear in the App Domains list: the default login URL (<domainURL_default>) appears at the top of the list; the additional login URLs (<domainURL_2> and <domainURL_3>) are listed under the default login URL:

     
     
     
   • You're in an OCI environment using Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS)

     In this scenario, add the IDCS URL as a domain URL using the following syntax:

     https://idcs-<instanceID>.identity.oraclecloud.com

     In the following example, three domain URLs appear in the App Domains list: the default login URL (<domainURL_default>) appears at the top of the list; the additional login URL (<domainURL_2>, and the IDCS URL (idcs-<instanceID>) are listed under the default login URL:

     
     
     

   The URLs are added to the App Domains list.

   By default, the domain URL from which you accessed the Create Manifest File page is already added to App Domains.

   Note:

   For more information on multiple login domains, see Working with Multiple Login Domains.

   Tip:

   For the correct domain URL syntax, log in to the appropriate cloud service, copy the URL, paste the URL into the Domain URL field, and then click Add.

   You must add all login domains used in your environment. Any time a domain (URL) is accessed that is not defined within the manifest file after sideloading or deploying the Smart View add-in, Excel launches this URL in the browser and loading fails. This is an indication to add that domain to the manifest, regenerate the manifest file, and sideload or redeploy.

5. Customize your manifest file in the following ways to fit your requirements.

   • Rename the Smart View ribbon tab name, described in Changing the Smart View Ribbon Tab Name

   • Add commands to the right-click menu, described in Adding Commands to the Right-Click Menu

   • Select additional languages, described in Specifying Localized Versions of Smart View (Mac and Browser)

   • Enable support for functions, described in Enabling Functions Support and Functions Builder

   • Enable extensions in Smart View, described in Enabling Extensions in Smart View (Mac and Browser)

   Additionally, see these topics if you require:

   • Generate a unique ID for the manifest file for use in a multiple manifest scenario, described in Working with Multiple Manifest Files

   • Reuse an existing manifest file, described in Reusing a Previously-Saved Manifest File

6. Review and finalize your changes to the manifest, and then click Create Manifest.

   At the prompt, enter a name for the manifest file and choose a location to save it.

   Note:

   Do not include spaces in the manifest file name.

   By default, the manifest file is saved to the location you’ve specified as the download location for your browser; typically, the Downloads folder.

7. Move the manifest file you just created from Downloads to the folder you created earlier for storing manifest files.
8. Continue with Sideloading and Logging In to test before deploying; then complete the deployment process with Deploying the Manifest File to Office 365 Users.