2 Welcome to Working with Oracle Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser)

This guide explains Oracle Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser) features and options including concepts, processes, and examples.

Where to find Smart View (Mac and Browser) documentation

The Smart View (Mac and Browser) documentation is available on the Oracle Help Center on the Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) page in the Books tab for your Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management business process.

  • To read this guide online in a browser, click the guide name link.
  • To download a PDF file of this guide, click the PDF icon PDF file icon next to the guide name. You can also download it from the online version by clicking Download PDF icon in the left panel next to the Table of Contents.

How to find information in this guide

To find information:

  • From the online help, in the left panel of the browser window, use the Table of Contents to navigate to topics, or click the Search icon and enter a search term in the text box.
  • From the PDF, navigate to topics from the table of contents, or use your reader's search functionality.
  • See the Finding Information section in this guide's appendix for information on accessibility and troubleshooting resources.

About this guide

This guide covers features and tasks related to multiple data sources that are supported in Smart View (Mac and Browser). It may happen that some topics apply to all data sources and some apply only to specific data sources. The following document conventions are used to indicate the applicability of a topic to a data source.

  • If a topic is applicable to a specific data provider only, then the provider name is mentioned at the start of the topic in the Applies to: section. For example:
    • If a topic is applicable only for Planning: Applies to: Planning
    • If a topic is applicable only for Essbase: Applies to: Oracle Essbase
    • If a topic is applicable only for Cloud EPM data sources, and not for Essbase: Applies to: Cloud EPM data source providers
  • If a topic applies to all supported data providers listed in the Supported Data Source Providers topic, then the Applies to: section is not added to the topic.