Extensions

Extensions lists the extensions that are currently installed on your computer, and provides options for installing, updating, and removing extensions.

From Excel, Word, or PowerPoint, complete these tasks in the Extensions tab:

• Working with Extension Alerts

• Initially Checking for Available Extensions

• Installing Extensions

• Updating Extensions

• Enabling Logging for Extension Installations

• Overriding the Default URL for the Extension Download

• Enabling and Disabling Extensions

• Adjusting Display when Working with Extensions

• Uninstalling Extensions

For the tasks noted above, see the chapter, Smart View Extensions.

In this topic, see the following for more information on extensions:

• About the Extensions Tab of the Options Dialog
• Provider and Per-User Extensions
• Video

About the Extensions Tab of the Options Dialog

Extension options are global options—set from Excel, Word, or PowerPoint—which apply to the entire current document, including any new worksheets added to the current workbook, new slides added to the current presentation, or new pages added to the current document, and to all Microsoft Office documents that are created henceforth, including Excel workbooks and worksheets, PowerPoint presentations and slides, and Word documents. Changes to global option settings become the default for all existing and new Microsoft Office documents.

The first time users open the Extensions tab of the Options dialog box, it contains a list of the extensions that are currently installed to leverage Oracle Smart View for Office functionality for other Oracle products. See Supported Smart View Extensions for a complete list of supported extensions. Other extensions that can be downloaded and installed are made visible using the Check for Updates, New Installs, and Uninstalls link on the dialog box.

Note:

• You can enable and disable extensions, and install, update, and uninstall extensions from Excel, PowerPoint, or Word.
• It is not necessary to use Apply to All Worksheets or Save as Default Options with the Extensions options.
• In some Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud products, you can download and install certain extensions from the browser. See Downloading and Installing Clients in Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users for more information.

Provider and Per-User Extensions

• Provider Extensions
• Per-user Extensions

Provider Extensions

Provider extensions are dependent on, or integrated with, EPM Cloud components. Examples are the EPM Books extension and the Planning Admin Extension.

Smart View supports extensions for the providers described in Supported Smart View Extensions.

Note:

The Smart Query extension is packaged with Smart View and gets installed automatically when installing Smart View.

The Oracle BI EE extension and Oracle Journals extension are packaged with Smart View. You can use the extension update procedures in this chapter to install them.

Narrative Reporting, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Journals, Smart Query, Reconciliation Compliance, and EPM Books are documented in this guide. Other extensions are documented in the applicable Oracle product guide.

Per-user Extensions

Per-user extensions are not dependent on Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System server components. Per-user extensions may be extensions created in-house by your Smart View administrator or extensions that the administrator has obtained from Oracle or another organization.

All installed extensions, whether packaged with Smart View or not, should be enabled automatically when you start Smart View. See Enabling and Disabling Extensions.

Per-user extensions are not documented in this guide.

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