Default Values Automatically Set for Dynamic and Context-Sensitive User Variables in Forms 2.0, Smart View Client, and Dashboards

For Forms 2.0, Smart View client, and dashboards, the default values for dynamic and context-sensitive user variables are now automatically set.

Applies to:  Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Planning, Tax Reporting

Currently, Oracle supports three types of user variables in forms:

  • Standard
  • Dynamic
  • Context-sensitive

Forms are prevented from opening if they include one or more standard user variables with undefined member values. If you're prevented from opening a form because it includes missing member values, you must define values for the user variables that were set up by your administrator.

For Forms 2.0, Smart View client, and dashboards, the system now automatically sets default values for dynamic and context-sensitive user variables based on the highest level of the users access the first time the form is opened. Users won't need to select values for dynamic and context-sensitive user variables before working in a form. Users can then change the values, if needed, after opening the form. Standard user variables, if undefined, will still need user intervention to define missing values in preferences. 

Business Benefit: Automatically setting default values for dynamic and context-sensitive user variables in Forms 2.0, Smart View client, and dashboards allows the form to be opened for the first time, in cases where user variables have not been prepopulated. Subsequent cases of opening the form will honor the most recently used values for the dimension members.

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