Launching the EPM Books Panel

You can launch the EPM Books panel whenever you connect to an Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud business process that contains books.

Before you launch the EPM Books panel, ensure that the EPM Books extension is enabled through the manifest file. For more information, see Enabling Extensions in Smart View (Mac and Browser) in Deploying and Administering Oracle Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser).

To launch the EPM Books panel:

  1. Connect to the data provider that contains books.
  2. In the Smart View Home panel, click the Actions menu and then click EPM Books.

    Figure 11-4 Launch EPM Books Panel


    Shows the option to launch EPM Books from the Context menu
    The EPM Books panel is displayed as shown in the following example.

    Figure 11-5 Example of EPM Books Panel


    Shows an example of the EPM Books panel which displays the available books in the top half of the panel, and the Jobs Console in bottom half, where jobs and their status are listed. When jobs are complete, you can open books from the Jobs Console.
    You can click Refresh button on the EPM Books panel to refresh the list of available books.
    You're now ready to begin using the Books functionality available in Oracle Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser).