Specifying Application Settings
You can control many aspects of the application and the system, such as:
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How to display thousands, decimals, and negative numbers in forms
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Approvals actions to be taken when you're out of the office
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Actions about which you want to be notified
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Display the full names of users rather than user IDs
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Administrators specify defaults for the current application. However, users can override these application defaults by setting preferences to control many aspects of the application, such as their profile photo and how numbers display in the application.
To set user preferences, see "Setting Your Preferences" in Working with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.
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Click Application, and then click Settings.
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Specify defaults for the current application. For descriptions of the settings, see the Application Settings table below.
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Specify system settings. For descriptions of the settings, see the System Settings table below.
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Click Save.
Table 6-1 Application Settings
Application Setting | Description |
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Alias Setting | For option descriptions, see Specifying a Default Alias Table, and Setting Member and Alias Display Options. |
Number Formatting |
For option descriptions, see Specifying Number Formatting Preferences. |
Approvals |
Select whether to display aliases, show the approval units that are not started, and show approval units as aliases in approvals notifications. |
Notifications |
Enable notifications for task lists, approvals, and job console
You can specify task notification types and frequency from User Preferences under Tools. See "Setting Up Email for Notifications" in Working with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud. |
Digital Assistant Settings |
If you have implemented the Oracle EPM Digital Assistant, specify configuration settings for the assistant. Note: These settings are part of a larger configuration process to enable you to work with the Digital Assistant. You must complete the configuration steps before using the Digital Assistant. See Configuring Applications in Getting Started with the Digital Assistant for Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management.
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Smart View Add-on |
Select the Google Sheets check box to enable support for Smart View in Google Sheets. When selected, users can connect to their applications from Google Sheets and use Smart View features to view and analyze data in Google Sheets. |
Oracle Guided Learning Settings |
If you have implemented Oracle Guided Learning, specify configuration settings. Note: These settings are part of a larger configuration process to enable you to work with Oracle Guided Learning. You must complete the configuration steps before using Oracle Guided Learning. See Integrating EPM Cloud with Oracle Guided Learning.
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Page |
Set defaults for indenting members on a page and setting the number of items on the page drop-down. Note that the Number of Items on the Page Drop-down option lets you shorten the member list so that the Search box can be more easily seen. If the list is shortened to 10 members, for example, then you won't need to scroll to see the Search box. |
Other Options |
Set these other configuration options:
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Table 6-2 System Settings
System Setting | Description |
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Display Users’ Full Names |
When selected, the system displays the user's full name (for example, Max Hennings). When cleared, the system displays the user's ID (for example, MHennings). |
Include Shared Members in Cube Refresh |
When selected, shared members will inherit the security access assigned to the base member. When cleared, shared members will inherit the highest security access based on a combination of the access assigned to the base member and parent of shared member. |
Default Ancestor Access | Select an option to specify the default user access to ancestor members in ad
hoc grids and the Member Selector:
See Accessing Ancestor Members in Ad Hoc Grids in Working with Oracle Smart View for Office for more information on working with the Default Ancestor Access setting. |
Email Character Set |
Select UTF-8 or Regional Setting. |
Business Rules Notification |
If set to Yes, notifies users or groups when rules (which are enabled for notification in Calculation Manager) are completed or encounter errors. In Notify These Users, select the users or groups to notify. You execute/launch these rules in Calculation Manager. You cannot enable email notifications for Consolidation and Translation rules, since they are system rules. |
Allow Drill Down on Shared Members in Ad Hoc | |
Drill to All Levels in Base |
Allows ad hoc grid users to drill down (or zoom in) from shared members to all levels within the base hierarchy. This check box option applies to Standard-mode applications only. The Drill to All Levels in Base check box appears when Allow Drill Down on Shared Members in Ad Hoc is set to Yes. A shared member is often a parent member in its base hierarchy. With the Drill to All Levels in Base check box enabled, users can drill down from the shared member to the base hierarchy using the zoom options, All Levels or Bottom Level. When the Drill to All Levels in Base check box is disabled, the user may zoom in to the various levels of the base hierarchy one level at a time using the Next Level zoom option. Multi-cell zoom-in on shared members is not supported. |
Minimize Approval Process Emails |
Reduces the number of emails a user receives when using Approvals. The default is No. If Yes is selected, only one email notification (for the approved parent entity) is sent to the new owner of the planning unit. Separate email notifications aren’t sent for every child entity in the planning unit hierarchy. If No is selected, owners that are set at parent nodes will receive emails for the selected node as well as an email for each child node. |
Enable Use of the Application for |
Determines whether users can access the application in administration mode, such as during backups. When you select Administrators, if any non-administrative users are logged on to the application, they are forced off the system and will not be able to log on. To restore access to an application for all users, select All users. |
Assign Application Owner |
Assigns ownership of the application to another Service Administrator. For more information about application ownership, see Assigning Application Owners. |
Enable the Display of Substitution Variables |
Set how substitution variables display in the Member Selection dialog box when users respond to runtime prompts in business rules. Display All displays all substitution variables. Display None displays no substitution variables. Enable Filtering displays only substitution variables that are valid for the runtime prompt. |
Suppression Mode |
Choose a suppression behavior for ad hoc grids in the web and in Smart View for cases where rows and columns contain missing data or zeroes.
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Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior |
All new and recreated applications are automatically set to Standard. For existing and migrated applications, choose to enable enhanced ad hoc features and behaviors in Smart View:
For a complete description of the enhanced ad hoc features available in Standard mode, see Smart View Behavior Options in EPM Cloud in Working with Oracle Smart View for Office. |
Use All Alias Tables on Refresh | Specify whether alias names entered into ad
hoc grids are evaluated using the currently selected alias table or against all
alias tables
If the system cannot identify the input as a valid member name or alias, the input will be displayed as a comment. |
Export EPM Cloud Smart List textual data during daily maintenance for incremental data import |
Choose whether to perform a complete export during the daily maintenance process or to create an application backup:
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Link Accounts by Default |
For block storage (input) cubes, select whether to XREF linked account members by default:
Note that |
Attribute Dimension Reorder Threshold |
Enter a threshold value between 0 and 500 (500 is the default value). For attribute dimensions, when the number of members under a given parent exceeds the specified threshold value, then the members will be reordered at the end of a metadata load instead of during the load. Depending on the specific shape of the attribute dimension, adjusting this number can sometimes have an impact on performance. In general, this setting can be ignored unless attribute dimension load times degrade beyond acceptable levels. |
Set Reporting Options |
If you're using the next-generation Reports reporting solution, Oracle recommends you use this setting to upload any TrueType fonts that your company uses to produce reports. To upload TrueType fonts, click Report Settings, click Manage Fonts, click , and then select the font files to upload. See "Working with the Reports Solution" in Working with Financial Consolidation and Close. |