1. Working with Oracle Smart View for Office
  2. Ad Hoc Analysis
  3. Starting Ad Hoc Analysis

Starting Ad Hoc Analysis

Connect to a provider and select Ad Hoc Analysis to display the Ad Hoc ribbon for that provider and enable the ad hoc functionality.

Data source types: Oracle Essbase, Planning, Planning Modules, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Tax Reporting, Narrative Reporting, Profitability and Cost Management

Note:

When you start ad hoc analysis with Oracle Essbase, Profitability and Cost Management, or Narrative Reporting, the alias table named "Default" is selected by default.

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To start ad hoc analysis:

  1. From Recently Used, Shared Connections, or Private Connections on the Smart View Panel, select one of the following:

    • Smart Slice

    • Form

    • Cube or model

    Note:

    You can also start ad hoc analysis from a supported web application or business process. For instructions, see Opening Forms and Ad Hoc Grids from Web Applications (Web Launch).

  2. From the Action Panel, select Ad hoc analysis.

    Alternatively, right-click the object in the Smart View Panel and select Ad hoc analysis.

    An ad hoc grid is placed on the sheet and the data provider ribbon is displayed.

    Tip:

    If an error appears similar to "Ad hoc grid cannot be opened as there are no valid rows of data," then, as a best practice, you should clear the suppression options in the Data Options tab of the Smart View Options dialog box. Ensure that all Suppress Rows and Suppress Columns options are cleared.

    • Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud: Ensure that the Suppress missing blocks option is cleared.

    • EPM Cloud Administrators: You can enable a form option, Remove Form Suppressions in Ad Hoc, that allows Oracle Smart View for Office users to perform ad hoc on forms that have row and column suppression options selected in the form definition. See the administration documentation for your EPM Cloud business process for more information.

  3. Use the ribbon buttons to perform ad hoc analysis on the current worksheet.

If you are familiar with the dimensions and members of your database, you can use free-form mode by entering dimension and member names directly into cell to design and create an ad hoc grid. See Free-Form Mode.