Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Feature	Notes
30 NOV 2017	Defects Fixed	Updated document. Added description for defects: 27166420, 27131061, 27089704, 27084538, 27072449, 27064039, 27039861, 27024619, 26993444, 26991539, 26989186, 26981647, 26976566, 26975070, 26942741, 26929766, 26812667, and 26645082. Also removed description of 26645082.
22 NOV 2017		Created initial document.

Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, December Update

This document outlines the announcements and fixed issues in the upcoming Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud updates.

Announcements and New Features

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Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 14:00 UTC-7 (2:00pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 1, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, December 15, 2017, also starting at 14:00 UTC-7. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on December 1, 2017.

Standard Interface (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace Interface) Support Removed

As notified through earlier Cloud Readiness documents, starting with this update, the Standard Interface, which is also known as the Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace, is no longer supported. Issues reported for the Standard Interface will no longer be addressed. This change affects only Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service customers who activated their subscriptions on or before July 31, 2016. All these customers are expected to have a transition plan for their users to use the Simplified Interface.

Tree View Set as the Default for Reports and Task Lists

To more easily navigate a multilevel folder structure, the Tree View (versus the Flat view) is now the default in reports and task lists.

Loading Metadata in Data Management

Data Management now supports the loading of metadata from a flat file. This feature allows customers to build a metadata load file in any format, from any source, and load the metadata to an EPM Cloud environment. Using this approach, users can set property defaults during the load or mapping process. In this monthly update, only regular, custom, and Smart List dimensions are supported for metadata loads, and the feature is supported for the following services only:

• Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Financial Consolidation and Closing Cloud
• Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud

For detailed information, see "Integrating Metadata" in Administering Data Management for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

New Custom Functions in Calculation Manager

Five new custom functions have been added to Calculation Manager. Each of these functions correspond to an existing function in that the existing functions return only positive numbers, and the new functions can return either a positive number or a negative number, depending on the calculated result. The new functions (and the existing function to which they correspond) are:

Existing Function	New Function
@CalcMgrDateDiff	@CalcMgrDiffDate
@CalcMgrYearsBetween	@CalcMgrYearsDiff
@CalcMgrMonthsBetween	@CalcMgrMonthsDiff
@CalcMgrDaysBetween	@CalcMgrDaysDiff
@CalcMgrWeeksBetween	@CalcMgrWeeksDiff

See "Date/Time Functions" in Designing With Calculation Manager for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for a detailed description of each of these functions.

New Design-Time Prompt Function in Calculation Manager

A new @Length design-time prompt is now available in Calculation Manager. @Length returns the length of the text.

For detailed information, see "@Length" in "About Design-Time Prompt Functions" in Designing With Calculation Manager for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

New Oracle Smart View for Office Version

Oracle Smart View for Office 11.1.2.5.720 will be available by early December. This version includes new features such as:

• Support for using a connection string with HypUIConnect, instead of a friendly name. Friendly names are still supported
• Enhanced extension update workflow, allowing you to select a server or service from which to check for updated extension downloads
• Cascading from multiple dimensions in a single operation
• Ability to run business rules templates
• Support for additional data types with HsGetValue: Smart Lists, text, and date
• Option to suppress display of the floating toolbar on forms
• Option to automatically resize column width and row height on cells in forms and ad hoc grids

This release also fixes a number of defects.

The Smart View 11.1.2.5.720 Readme, available on the Help Center at the time of release, contains a complete list of features and defects addressed in this version. You must install this version to ensure compatibility with the December 2017 update features and to access the new functionalities. See "Downloading and Installing Clients" in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users for instructions.

New EPM Getting Started Guides

Starting with this update, Service Administrator and end user “getting started” information for all EPM Cloud Services is available from these new guides:

• Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators
• Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users

Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators contains information on the tasks that Service Administrators can perform with EPM Cloud Services. This guide, which provides common administrative information for all EPM Cloud services, is now your primary source for tasks related to EPM Cloud administration, including managing users and roles, setting up single sign-on, and backing up and restoring environments. This guide replaces these guides:

• Using Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Getting Started with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud
• Getting Started with Account Reconciliation Cloud for Administrators
• Getting Started with Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud for Administrators
• Getting Started with Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud
• Getting Started for Administrators for Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud

Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users introduces end users to Oracle EPM Cloud and provides information that enables them to quickly become proficient. This guide replaces these guides:

• Getting Started with Account Reconciliation Cloud for Users
• Getting Started with Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud for Users
• Getting Started for Users for Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud

Links in the Cloud Help Center and Oracle Learning Library have been modified to direct users to these guides. Please change your personal bookmarks and shortcuts so that they point to these new guides.

Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Only

Create and Edit Account Groups in Strategic Modeling

You can now create and edit Account Groups in Strategic Modeling on the Web. In the Account View, from the Actions menu, click Account Groups.

For detailed information, see "Working with Account Groups" in Working with Planning for Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Refresh Project Dates for Projects Business Process

A new Refresh Project Dates menu option is now available on the Project Details form to refresh project dates in the Projects business process of Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud. Refresh project dates to enable input cells of Direct Expense/Revenue forms when:

• Projects are imported
• Projects dates change

Removal of Support

Classic Dimension Editor

With the February 2018 (18.02) update, the Dimensions link in the Navigator will link to the Simplified Dimension Editor. Effective February 2018 (February 2, 2018 for test and February 16, 2018 for production environments), the Simplified Dimension Editor will be the only interface available to edit and manage dimensions.

For detailed information on using the Simplified Dimension Editor, See Editing Dimensions in the Simplified Dimension Editor in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client

Oracle is committed to providing a simple and intuitive user experience. To achieve this, Financial Reporting Web Studio, available since March 2016, will become the only environment for designing and building reports.

Oracle is providing additional time for users to transition from Financial Reporting Desktop Studio to Financial Reporting Web Studio. Tentative plans call for functional parity between Financial Reporting Web Studio and Financial Reporting Desktop Studio in early 2018, at which time, support for the Desktop Studio will transition to the Web Studio and distribution of the Desktop Studio will cease. This transition is currently planned for the 18.04 update (April 6, 2018 for test and April 20, 2018 for production environments).

Oracle recommends that you transition to using Financial Reporting Web Studio at the earliest opportunity. Please send questions and concerns to Oracle using the Provide Feedback option in the service.

Defects Fixed

Check this list again for the latest information when the update is applied to your test environment.

Defect Number	Description
27166420	Backups performed since applying the last update are no longer taking hours to complete.
27131061	The Planning and Forecast Preparation configuration task now correctly sets the end month.
27089704	You no longer receive an error when loading some models in the Strategic Modeling Smart View extension.
27084538	Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud business processes now successfully upgrade their content.
27072449	When you change or move the deal period from one time period to another, you no longer receive an error when the Period ID does not match the Period Label.
27064039	In Calculation Manager, changes to the Amount Units Rates template are now saved and the script is correctly displayed in the rule.
27024619/ 26993444	When you create a new model from an existing model, the new model now correctly retains the updated currency and units you specified during model creation, rather than using the currency and units from the existing model.
27045036	The HTML preview of a Financial Reporting report with multiple grids now displays correctly.
27039861	When performing a "Delete Application" from the Smart View Panel, Data Management artifacts are now properly deleted, just as in the web interface.
27009032	The data load rule is now correctly executed even if UTF8 formatted mapping file contains Byte Order Marks (BOM) characters.
27049959	In the Capital business process of Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, amortization is now correctly calculated when you transfer an intangible asset from one entity to another.
26998018	In the Task List Report, the number of tasks by user and the total number of tasks are now correct.
26995802	In Financial Reporting Web Studio, selecting an account using the member selection now works correctly.
26991539	When adding artifacts to a card in the Navigation Flow interface, artifact names are no longer truncated in the first column of the listing.
26989186	Errors when running business rules after taking the latest patch are now fixed.
26988727	In the Capital business process of Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, cash flow and fund flow are now calculating correctly for assets with a purchase date of December.
26981647/ 26975070	Smart Push now runs successfully if the same member appears twice.
26980840	The Job Console now displays the correct label for the day the job was completed; for example, Yesterday.
26978967	After changing project dates, valid periods now show up in the direct expense entry and direct revenue entry forms when you run the Refresh Project Dates rule.
26976566	The annotations for approvals are no longer showing HTML code in the line feed.
26975317	When you export multiple reports from Financial Reporting Web Studio into Excel, and then view the reports in HTML, an error no longer occurs and the reports display correctly.
26956760	For the Financials business process in Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, importing an application snapshot no longer fails when Asset Detail is defined as a custom dimension.
26942741	Tasks assigned to groups are now visible in the Task List Report.
26942717	After a service update, the Vendor dimension is no longer incorrectly enabled for a cube when that dimension was created and enabled for Financials, renamed, and the renamed dimension was used in Projects, Workforce, and Capital.
26940771	In forms containing a large number of attribute dimensions, a scroll bar is now available inside Attribute Dimension to enable you to drag and drop dimensions into rows or columns.
26929766	When you click Save on a form, the busy icon indicator now displays correctly.
26827049	In the Projects business process in Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, calculations are now correct when the fiscal year is not the calendar year.
26812667	When the same period is used for YTD and QTD in dynamic time series members in the same Smart View query, data is now retrieved if the Suppress Rows option, No data/Missing, is enabled.
26780292	In Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, importing an application snapshot now succeeds when a provided member is referenced in a custom member formula for the Period dimension
26759004	You can now add labels to charts in Financial Reporting Web Studio.
26719130	The problem with security when running a report from the Explore Repository in Financial Reporting Web Studio has been fixed. (Previously, if you had "Apply Application Security to FR POV and Prompt" set to "true", you were still able to see the entire hierarchy.)
26478186	Custom fonts uploaded using Financial Reporting Web Studio are now stored correctly.
25985928	Dynamic ranges on graphs now work the same in both Financial Reporting Web Studio and Financial Reporting Studio desktop client. (Previously, reports set to vary the y-axis range based on the data set resulted in graphs with too wide or too narrow of a data range.)
26179898	In the Workforce Planning business process, when the Plan Start is the Current Fiscal Year, the Process Loaded Data rule now copies the new rate from CurMnth to all future periods in Yearrange. (Previously, Process Loaded Data copied the new rate only to CurMnth, leaving future period rates at their previous load values.) Set the values of the substitution variables &CurYr and &CurMnth to the year and month where new rate is being loaded before running the rule.

Considerations

USING FIREFOX ESR 52.4.2 WITH SMART VIEW

Mozilla Firefox has phased out support for XUL-based add-ons such as Smart View. Only add-ons and extensions built with new web extension technology will work in newer versions of Firefox. Therefore, Smart View 11.1.2.5.710 and newer only supports Firefox versions up to ESR 52.4.1. If you want to continue using Firefox with Smart View 11.1.2.5.710 and newer, do not upgrade your Firefox browser.

If your Firefox browser is set to automatically install updates, Oracle recommends changing the setting to “Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them.” See the Firefox help for instructions on changing this setting.