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

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

Where to find information

The Smart View (Mac and Browser) documentation is available on the Oracle Help Center in the Books tab for your cloud business process:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/epm-cloud/index.html

In the Books tab, locate the User section and select the Working with Oracle Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser) HTML or PDF link.

How to find information

To find information:

  • From the online help, in the left frame 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.

Documentation convention

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 documentation convention 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 EPM Cloud data sources, and not for Essbase: Applies to: EPM Cloud 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.