20220303 FINAH Start UAT Release Notes

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Last updated: Mar 04, 2022
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Hello FINAH Developers - The below fields are now available for you in UAT.  If you find an issue, please email busintel@ucsd.edu right away with the subject line “FINAH UAT due March 9” so we can address it prior to the Thursday, March 10, 2022 release to Production.

Keep up with our future enhancements here: FINAH Bugs and Enhancements In Progress

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New View: FINAH-PPM-TransactionDetail-View

BIA, in conjunction with the BFS BI and Financial Reporting team, is excited to release the FINAH-PPM-TransactionDetail-View.  This new view is a combination of elements from FINAH-ContractRevenue-View and FINAH-ProjectCosts-View in support of the 'Faculty & Research Panorama'.  The FINAH-PPM-TransactionDetail-View will allow report developers to display revenue and costs, aka expenditures, in the same report. 

Check out our FINAH Quick Start Guide summary page on Collab for details on how Oracle PPM data is organized in FINAH.

Test Your Requested Enhancements

Items marked with an asterisk (*) are report breaking enhancements if you have these fields in your report and you have not take the appropriate remediation steps.


Customer Service Reminder

Data in UAT is not ready to be shared with end customers, is not considered completely validated and can change suddenly.  For optimal customer satisfaction, do not connect your production solutions to packages / data sources that are in UAT.  If you choose to share UAT items with end customer, be explicit that the data and report is in UAT and can change suddenly or be broken by UAT changes.

Follow our Enhancement Testing Steps

Use this UAT time to adjust your reports as needed prior to the Production release where your customers will be able to see any issues these enhancements cause. 
  • Cognos: Use the packages in Cognos DEV > Financial Activity Hub > Financial Activity Hub Packages UAT to build your report and select Hana QA.  Do not select Hana Prod as the report will fail.  Using Hana QA will allow you to see the below enhancements with Oracle Production data. 
  • Tableau: Sign into Tableau on your Tableau desktop tool and open your report.  Add a new data source with the same name and -QA at the end of the title.  Using this data source will allow you to see the below enhancements with Oracle Production data.
  • Hana QA:  FINAH data in Hana QA is production Oracle data loaded daily, just like in Hana PROD.

If you find an issue, please include in your email to busintel@ucsd.edu the following:

  • What browser are you using?
  • What environment are you using?  Cognos DEV, QA or PROD?  Or Tableau?
  • What data source / package are you using?
  • What results were you expecting?