Something I often forget about is the ability to customize the display of information in the NR library. When you go into the library, you'll see a default set of columns with helpful information - name, file type, and last accessed date and time: Did you know you can customize this view? And it will … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Customizing Your Library View
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Narrative Reporting Series: How to Group Conditions
I've known a few customers who have put a crazy amount of conditions into either the conditional formatting or conditional suppression features of Reports. No judgment. If there's a way to reduce the number of Reports you have to build and maintain by using conditions (while keeping the user experience positive) then I'm all for … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Series: How to Group Conditions
Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: When Zoom Doesn’t Work
I've seen this happen a million times, so I'm finally posting a quick tip about it. It happens to a lot of end users. Sometimes it happens to developers. Some Administrators have even weighed in on this issue. Regardless, it happens to all of us. Don't be embarrassed. What are we talking about? When you … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: When Zoom Doesn’t Work
Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: How to Enable GenAI for Reports
Interested in GenAI for Narrative Reporting Reports? At this point, nearly every eligible customer should be able to turn this feature on if they so wish. Last time I checked, some government customers were not able to use this (due to certifications that Oracle did not have yet) but I believe this is changing. Note … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: How to Enable GenAI for Reports
Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Hide-and-Seek. Finding Reports Objects You Can’t See
Sometimes when you're deep into Reports development, you lose sight of some Reports objects. Either they're too small, they're on another page, they've slipped behind another object and you've overlooked the ugly red error warning at the top, or, like socks in my dryer, they've disappeared into a black hole. Who knows? So...how do you … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Hide-and-Seek. Finding Reports Objects You Can’t See
Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: How to Set Up Banded Rows in Your Report Data Grids
"Banded" rows means to apply shaded color to alternate rows in a table or grid, usually to make it easier to read the data. This is a common Excel practice. And guess what? You can do this easily in Narrative Reporting Reports. Here's what a normal report looks like in Reports before you turn on … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: How to Set Up Banded Rows in Your Report Data Grids
Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Creating Butterfly Reports
Although it's been awhile since I've seen a customer do this, Narrative Reporting Reports has had the ability to create "butterfly" reports. These are reports where the row headers aren't to the left (or right) of the report, but somewhere in the middle. Here's an example of how a butterfly report might look (Oracle's Report … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Creating Butterfly Reports
Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Setting a default member in POV dimensions
Ever choose to use a prompt instead of a POV because you can set a default member in prompts? What if I told you it was possible to replicate similar functionality in the POV? I'll use the good 'ole Sample library of reports. Let's pick a straight-forward one, Sample Report 1. Here is what it … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Setting a default member in POV dimensions
Helllooooo again, Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting world!
Hey everybody! I'm baaaaaaack. Yes, it's been a minute...or two...or three. LOL. But, as promised from my Kscope25 blog post, I intend to get back into blogging. I have a few things to say about the Narrative Reporting product suite and I can't wait to share my tips & tricks and learnings with you! There … Continue reading Helllooooo again, Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting world!
ODTUG Kscope25: The Last Dance
Welcome to the first day of summer! Although, if you were at Kscope this year you would’ve already felt it with the highs in the 90s down here in Dallas-Ft. worth. It was a sizzling event and a nice do over from the last one in Grapevine back in 2022. Monday I was disappointed to … Continue reading ODTUG Kscope25: The Last Dance
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