Creating Physical Inventory Worksheets

Process

  • Login to Oracle
  • Click the responsibility ‘RIT FA Physical Inventory User’ on the navigator screen
    • If not automatically sent to Oracle viewer, click on ‘Download FA Physical Inventory Data Interface’
  • ‘Select Viewer’ – choose your version of Excel from the drop down menu
  • Leave ‘Reporting’ box unchecked
  • Click ‘Next’ to content parameters page

Physical Inventory ADI

Content Parameters:

  • Mapping - select ‘RIT FA Physical Inventory Mapping’ from dropdown menu
  • Parent Department:
    • You must use a capital letter ‘F’ when entering parent department
    • Leave blank to obtain all parent departments assigned to DIR or DIR2 (based on Oracle user who is using system) or enter one parent department
    • If you have more than one parent department, and field is left blank, all inventory items will be combined on one Excel worksheet
    • Tip: If you are assigned more than one parent department and you prefer to give individual department groups their own Excel file to work from, enter each parent department separately
  • Click 'Continue'
  • Document Creation Review screen will appearPhysical Inventory Mapping

Document Creation Overview:

  • Verify information is correct
  • Click ‘create document’ once information is verifiedCreate Document

Create Document:

  • A prompt will appear to open the Excel file
  • Choose ‘open’ and enable editing and content macros in the Excel fileSteps to enable editing.

Processing message in Oracle once macros are enabled.

Macros Enabled

 

Processing message in Oracle download complete.

Macros Complete

 

The Excel ADI template file will be similar to below:

Excell ADI Template

Options to Format Worksheets

Unprotect worksheet to allow Excel formatting options, ie: text color, cell shading, column width, and bold:

  • Click on ‘Review’ tab on top tool bar
  • Click on ‘Unprotect Sheet’ icon
  • Edit formatting as desired