1. Darian Hanson, Microsoft
Management Reporter
Darian Hanson, Microsoft

2. What’s coming and new with CU15 Other notable Features prior to CU15
Management Reporter
What’s coming and new with CU15
Https feature, XPS print feature, Search on Web Viewer
Other notable Features prior to CU15
Data Validation, Company Integrations, Notifications
Top Issues to Support
Account setup common issues, Currency Translation, Performance, Data Integrity, Installation prep and recommendations

3. Critical Update 15
Here’s a summary of the new Management Reporter CU15 features:
·         Improved responsiveness in the Web Viewer
·         A search bar has been added to search through the current level of the report. In-browser search functions may not always return all results because of the performance changes to improve responsiveness
·         Printing in the Web Viewer through XPS download
·         PowerShell module to enable reset of data mart
·         Add Turkish (tr-tr) localization
·         Additional fixes for product defects

4. Feature to rebuild your Data Mart
Uses Powershell to do this process
Allows one to keep transaction detail of previous generated reports
Steps to why a rebuild may be needed and how to set this up are listed on the MR Blog site: cial_reporting/2016/06/28/resetting-the- management-reporter-data-mart/

5. Post CU15 Features & Enhancements
Hot Fix 1 – Released 5/13
Fixed issue with Ranges used on report and a SQL Change tracking issue
Hot Fix 2 – Released 6/1
MR AX only – for a Regulatory feature for Brazil
Hot Fix 3 – Released 7/11
MR GP only - Fixed several issues with Performance with Analytical Accounting, Integration with GP2016 Data Validation and Dexterity Components

6. Post CU15 Features & Enhancements
More to Come!
Https Integration for Management Reporter – Planning October time frame
One it is posted, it will be on the MR Blog site:

7. Highlights from Previous Updates
Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2013
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Highlights from Previous Updates
CU11 – December 2014
Currency Translation fixes for Microsoft Dynamics GP
Improved performance for integration and report generation
Ability to drill into a Total row from within the Web Viewer
Companies can be enabled or disabled for reporting within Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015
CU12 – April 2015
Added the ability to use BASE+1:12 in the column definition
Ability to exclude NP rows from exporting to Excel by disabling the export of formulas
Ability to export NP rows at the Account and Transaction detail levels
Additional fixes for exporting to Excel where you would receive an operand error when exporting with formulas enabled
CU13 – July 2015
Removed Licensing – All ERP’s get an unlimited licenses model.
Several reporting display updates
CU14 – November 2015
Change Period and re-generate report from Web Viewer
Many XPS export updates
CU10 – September 2014
Account category no longer displays in drilldown
Included row total formulas when downloading to Excel
Select companies to be included in data mart (Dynamics GP 2010 and 2013)
Choose to include AA data in the data mart (Dynamics GP 2010 and 2013)
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8. Data Validation

9. Data Validation

10. Data Validation Financial Reports from Management Reporter do not match the General Ledger Trial Balance Reports in Microsoft Dynamics GP  

11. Notifications

12. Blog article to setup notifications: https://blogs. msdn. microsoft

13. Company Integration (Disable\Enable AA)

14. Company Integration (Disable/Enable AA)

15. Several Web Viewer Enhancements

16. Several Web Viewer Enhancements

17. Several Web Viewer Enhancements

18. Top Issues to Support Full Account structure/Account Categories Currency Translation Data Validation Performance – Report Generation & Integration Step to do prior to installing MR2012

19. Full Account structure/Account Categories
Management Reporter is a Dimension Based Reporting Solution, so setting up your chart of account to align to this is important.
Make sure your main segment is specified correctly in GP. (Tool | Setup | Company | Account Format)
Make sure all accounts that have the same main segment are assigned to the same account category
**If not setup this way there will be conflicting results between main account and full account in GP. Some example are: full accounts in incorrect Categories, translations not working as expected

20. Currency Translation
Since Management Reporter is a Dimension Based Reporting Solution, it is important to be consistent in assigning Current, Average, or Historical to the main segment.
This is assigned to your accounts in (Cards | Financial | Account Currencies)
To quickly update this for all accounts assigned to a main segment (Card |Financial | Currency Account Update)
**Typically, Balance Sheet accounts are set to Current, Profit & Loss accounts are set to Average, and things like Retained Earnings, Property, Plant, and Equipment are set to Historical.

21. Currency Translation
Also, there is some confusion on how Current, Average, and Historical work. The following Blog articles are a great reference guide to go deeper into each of these translation types:
Current:
Average:
Historical:

22. Data Mart Data Issues
Misconception: When running a report the Data Mart data is bad, so just rebuild it. **This really should be a last step and not the first.
Make sure to utilize the Data Validation functionality previously mentioned. If there are data issues here, your account balances will be off.
If the Data Validation is giving no errors, start simple, and create a test report.
Create a row definition with the account that has the incorrect balance
Create a column with the period the balance is off at. (If main report is off on a YTD balance, create all 12 periods to find out what period has the incorrect balance
Create a Report Definition to include the test row and column.
Generate the test report to validate the data for that account. If it is correct here, it is most likely a formatting issue on your main report. If incorrect, this maybe an issue where one has to look into the transaction in the GP tables to find what is wrong with the transaction. Best to find the journal entry that is off for this account.

23. Performance Problems
The 2 areas where we see Performance cases come in from are:
Integration
Report Generation

24. Integration Performance Problems
Items causing performance issues with the integration:
1. System Specification are too low.
2. SQL Statistics out of date on GP company and system database sp_updatestats can be ran on databases to correct this.
3. Data Issues
-- Important to clean up data issues that the Data Validation gives.
4. On an old release of Management Reporter – Post CU10 has been improving.

25. Report Generation Performance
Items causing performance issues with Report Generation:
System Specifications not met on previous slide.
Report setup (Try the following to narrow down where the cause is)
If the report uses a tree, try it without the tree
Setup a test row with 1 account, run report with that test row
Setup a test column with just a DESC, FD Periodic, FD YTD column, run report with that column.
Avoid using wildcards unless needed.
If your have a range of just 2 accounts put Acct1+Acct2.
If you need to subtract an account from a range. Use a range on both side of the account you need to subtract. Instead of doing 1* , do 1100: :1999

26. What to do in GP prior to installing MR2012?

27. Currency Setup Verify ISO codes
System-wide setting, and only has to be completed once
Microsoft Dynamics GP | Tools | Setup | System | Currency
Verify currency access to company:
Microsoft Dynamics GP | Tools | Setup | System | Multicurrency Access
Verify Functional Currency for each company:
Microsoft Dynamics GP | Tools | Setup | Financial | Multicurrency
Run Checklinks for MultiCurrency for each company if prompted

28. Dimension Names & User Defined
Segment Names
Dynamics GP select Tools -> Setup -> Company -> Account Format
AA Dimensions
Dynamics GP select Cards -> Financial -> Analytical Accounting -> Transaction Dimension
Click the lookup button
Must be unique and cannot be the same as a GP segment name
User Defined Fields
Dynamics GP select Tools -> Setup -> Financial -> General Ledger
User Defined fields must be unique non blank values
User Defined field values are case sensitive between companies

29. Account Master – Account Combinations
Missing data for a particular account or account combination and possible error with Dimension Values Task
Segment Value length in GL40200 Larger than defined in SY00300
Segment Value in GL40200 not defined in GL00100
Segment Number in GL40200 not defined in SY00300
Common Cause: Incorrect import to Account Master
Resolution: CheckLinks on Account Master

30. Submitting a Service Request
Management Reporter Version (Help > About)
Error messages
Configuration Console logs (Data Mart Integration, Deployment, Service)
Event Viewer on MR Server
At what point did the issue start

31. Questions?

32. Speaker contact info
Darian Hanson Microsoft