WEB ADI USER GUIDE

Getting Started:

1. The first step is to review and ensure you meet the following system
requirements:

• One of the following operating systems must be installed on the client PC:
_ Windows ME
_ Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or later
_ Windows 2000
_ Windows XP

• Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater must be installed on your machine.

• You must have one of the following versions of Excel:

_ 2000
_ 2003
_ XP

For Web ADI to work with Excel XP, you must:

1. Open Excel
2. Go to Tools > Macro > Security > Trusted Sources
3. Check the "Trust access to Visual Basic Project" option

• Make sure your browser security settings will allow a spreadsheet to be

created on your desktop.
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Go to Tools > Internet Options and choose the Security tab.
3. Select Local Intranet and choose the Custom Level button.
4. Set the following option to Prompt:
“Initialize and script Active X controls not marked as safe”

2. If you meet the above requirements, double click on the attached template
and select "enable macros"

3. Enter your batch name where indicated on the attached template.

4. Select "save as" and save the template to a directory of your choice. Choose
file type “Template”.

You are now ready to use Web ADI.

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Entering Journals
When you are ready to enter a journal, go to the directory where you just saved
the template and double click on the template. Click the “Enable Macros” box.

A window similar to the following should appear.

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You can now enter your journal. See Appendix A for journal header field
requirements.

Ensure that the entry balances and that detailed line descriptions are provided.
You are able to include up to 240 characters in your journal and line descriptions.

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Uploading Journals
When you are ready to upload your journal, choose the drop down menu called
“Oracle” on the toolbar and select “Upload”. The following box should appear.

Enter your user name and password and click the “Login” box.

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A box similar to the one below should appear. Choose “UofG Field Users” and
click the “Select” box.

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The following box should appear with the “Ready” message.

Click the “Upload” box.

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A box indicating any upload messages will then appear. If the upload is
successful, the box will look similar to the one below. Take note of the “Journal
Import Request ID” number that appears in this box. Click the “Close” button and
you are done.

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If the entry is not successfully uploaded, this will be indicated in the “Upload
Messages” box. If you then close this box, there should be a message in the
“Messages” column of the spreadsheet beside the line (or lines) that are causing
the upload problem (see below). This message should give some indication as
to the nature of the problem. You can then correct the problem and attempt to
upload the journal entry again.

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Adding an Oracle Attachment

Journal entries must include enough detail to provide an audit trail to source
documentation. If additional information beyond the journal and line descriptions
is needed to support the entry, the Oracle attachment feature allows you to
include additional text via a text box and/or electronic files containing supporting
documentation.

After the entry has been uploaded, log in to Oracle using the “UofG Journal
Attachment User” responsibility and select “UofG Journal Attachments” in the
right hand column. The screen that appears in Oracle, shown below, lists all of
your unposted journal entries. Attachments can only be added to unposted
entries.

The “Batch Status” column will contain the word “Yes” if something is currently
attached to this entry and “No” if there is not.

Select the entry you want to add an attachment to and click on the “Attachments”
button or the paperclip icon in the toolbar.

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The initial “Attachments” screen that opens is shown below:

For all attachments:

The “Seq” field is automatically filled in.

Enter “Journal” in the “Category” field. (Or type “j” then press “Tab” key)

Enter a description of the attachment in the “Description” field.

See the appropriate section below to continue with attaching a text box or
electronic file.

Multiple attachments may be added to a single entry. Each different attachment

will have a different “Seq” number, ie 10, 20, 30, etc.

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ATTACHING A TEXT BOX

Enter “Text” in the “Data Type” field. (Or type “t” then press “Tab” key)

This will cause the large text box in the lower part of the form to turn yellow
indicating that it may be edited or modified, as illustrated below.

There is ample room (4000 characters) to provide as much detailed information

as necessary to support the entry.

This is a text box and doesn’t allow formatting. If formatting is important, the
information should be saved in an electronic file and attached as a file. (See next
section for instructions on how to attach an electronic file.)

Be sure to save when finished.

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ATTCHING AN ELECTRONIC FILE

If supporting documentation is available in an electronic file, for example a

spreadsheet showing relevant calculations or a scan of an invoice showing
authorization, such a file can be attached to a journal entry as follows.

Enter “File” in the “Data Type” field. (Or type “f” then press “Tab” key)

A web browser, as shown above, will pop up prompting the user to upload the
desired file by either specifying the path and filename or browsing for and
selecting it, and then clicking on the “OK” button.

File types that can be added include .doc (MS Word), .xls (MS Excel), .pdf
(Adobe) and .jpg (pictures).

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When the file is finished uploading, the following “File Upload completed
successfully” message will appear.

Close the web browser, return to Oracle and click on YES to indicate the file
upload is complete as per the instructions in the web browser.

Be sure to save when finished.

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OPENING / MODIFYING ATTACHMENTS

An attached file can be opened and viewed by clicking on the “Open Document”
Button in the Attachments form. Note that pop-up blockers may affect this and
must be disabled or modified to include the Oracle address as a trusted site.

Once a text box or file attachment has been added and saved, it cannot be
modified by field users. If a modification is necessary, the Controller’s Office will
need to be contacted and they will make the necessary changes.

Additional attachments can be added any time before the entry is posted.

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Other Information:

• Adding Rows to Spreadsheet:

You can add more rows to the coding section of your spreadsheet by unprotecting the sheet.
Go to Tools/Protection/Unprotect Sheet and insert more rows. Remember to protect the
worksheet again. Please do not add rows anywhere else on the spreadsheet as this may
prevent you from uploading. Adding columns anywhere on your spreadsheet may also
prevent you from uploading

• Modifying Width of a Column

You can modify the width of a column in your spreadsheet, for example you can increase the
width of the line description column. First, unprotect the sheet as above by going to
Tools/Protection/Unprotect Sheet, and then hi-light the column you wish to change by clicking
on the letter at the top of the column. Right click and choose “Column Width”, or go to
Format/Column/Width and type in the width that you would like. Remember to protect the
worksheet again when finished.

• Multiple Templates or Spreadsheets

Many of you have saved several different templates or spreadsheets that you use again and
again. To facilitate this you can copy the rows from the coding section of your old templates
or spreadsheets and paste them into the Web ADI template and save it using a different file
name.

• Multiple Journal Entries

If you are entering and uploading more than one journal entry in a single session, you should
only need to sign on when uploading your first entry. To enable this to happen simply keep
the spreadsheet from your first entry open until you have entered and uploaded all your
journals. Once you close all your spreadsheets from a session your system connection also
closes. If you wish to enter another journal after this you will be asked to login again.

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List of Values:
You can access a list of values by double clicking anywhere within the coding
portion of your spreadsheet. Alternatively, if your cursor is in the coding portion
of your template then you can select “List of Values” (LOV) from the “Oracle”
drop down menu in your toolbar. Either way, a box similar to the one below will
appear. If you are not already signed on to WEB ADI, then you will be prompted
to sign on at this point

You can click the “LOV” box beside any of the Accounting Flexfield segments to
access a search feature.

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You can search by account code value or description. To search by value,

select “Value” from the drop down menu beside “Search Criteria” and input the
first one or more digits of the account code you are searching for. Then click
“Go”

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A box listing all valid codes beginning with the digit or digits you entered will
appear. Under the “Select” column, click the button beside the value you wish to
select. Now click the “Select” button at the bottom, right of the box.

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Alternatively, to search by description, select “Description” from the drop down

menu beside “Search Criteria” and input the first one or more characters of the
account code description you are searching for. Then click “Go”. You can also
search for any word or portion of a word in the account code description by
placing a % symbol before and after the string of characters you are searching
for and then clicking “Go”. For example, %Supplies%.

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A box listing all valid codes meeting your search criteria will appear. Under the
“Select” column, click the button beside the value you wish to select. Now click
the “Select” button at the bottom, right of the box.

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Whether you have searched by value or description, once you have

selected the account code you want, the account code value will be
placed in the following box. If the account code combination appearing in
this box is the one you want then click the “Select” button.

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Another box will appear confirming that the accounting flexfield you have
selected is valid. At this point simply click “Select”.

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The account code combination will then be placed in the coding section of
your spreadsheet on the line where your cursor was located when you first
selected the list of values feature.

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Another feature within the list of values is the ability to leave one or more
fields blank within the accounting flexfield box and then clicking the
“Combinations” button.

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The list of values will then return a list of valid account code combinations
meeting your search criteria.

Be careful when using this feature. If you leave too many blanks in your search
criteria, the system could take some time (perhaps 5 minutes or more) before it
returns an extensive list of account code combinations.

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Appendix A
Journal Header Fields

• Category: Mandatory Field - must use "UofG_Allocation".

• Source: Mandatory Field - must always be "Spreadsheet".

• Currency: Mandatory Field - must always be "CAD".

• Accounting Date: Mandatory Field - will generally be today’s date.

Journals may be dated for future periods, although

they will not be processed until the future period. No
journals may be backdated to previous periods. Date
format should be MM/DD/YY

• Group ID: Optional Field - must be a numeric value. Use this

field if you or your department wish to number your
journal entries with your own numbering system.
Oracle General Ledger will append this number onto
the end of the Batch Name assigned to the journal
entry above.

• Batch Name: Mandatory Field - unit name and number (parent

value) as well as First Initial and Last Name of the
person entering the journal entry.

• Journal Name: Mandatory Field - first Initial and Last Name of

person authorizing the journal entry.

• Journal Description: Mandatory Field - up to 250 characters. This field

should be used to enter a clear, relevant description
of the purpose of the journal entry. Entries with
incomplete descriptions will be rejected.

• Journal Reference: Optional Field - use this field to list individuals that
you have distributed copies to. Copies should not be
distributed until they have been approved and
processed in Oracle General Ledger.

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