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    • Set Up and Manage Accounts
    • Balance Inquiries
    • Finding Account Documentation in KFS
    • Financial Processing e-doc Attachment Guidelines
    • Accounts Payable e-docs
    • Capital Assets e-docs
    • Financial Processing e-docs
      • Advance Deposit (AD)
      • Distribution of Income and Expense (DI)
      • Disbursement Voucher (DV)
        • Disbursement Voucher Payees
        • DV Payment Reason Codes
        • Standard Operating Procedure
      • General Ledger Transfer (GLT)
      • Internal Billing (IB)
      • Procurement Card Document (PCDO)
      • Pre-Encumbrance (PE)
      • Transfer of Funds (TF)
    • Labor Distribution e-docs
    • Purchasing e-docs
      • e-SHOP
      • Purchase Order (PO)
      • Purchase Order Amendment (POA)
      • Line-Item Receiving (RCVL)
      • Requisition (REQS)
      • Vendor (PVEN)
  • KDW/Reporting
    • Dashboard Guides and Tutorials
    • Answers Overview
  • FAQ
  • Glossary
  • Acronyms

Answers Overview

Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) Answers is the tool used to build an ad hoc query and associated views of the data, such as tables, pivots or charts. It is the equivalent of using a Brio/Hyperion Model to build an ad hoc query or report. Together, the query and one or more views are referred to as an Analysis or an Answers request. The query is built from a set of tables and columns displayed in a Windows-like directory referred to as a presentation catalog, for a specific Subject Area, which is essentially the underlying Data Model for a certain Business Process.

  • Creating OAS (OBIEE) Agents
  • KDW Repository Variables (XLSX, 11 KB)
  • Repository Variables Tutorial (Video, 13:35 min.)
  • OAS Answers Training
  • Request OAS Answers Access

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