Blitz Report™ Training

Practice in your EBS

Short exercises with the reports, uploads and guide sections to use. Tick them off as you go.

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   Run your first report into Excel

   Run GL Account Analysis for the last period from the EBS forms and open the output in Excel.

   • ReportGL Account Analysis
   • GuideRunning reports
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   Save a layout template with a pivot table

   Hide the columns you do not need, add a pivot table and save it as your template for the next run.

   • GuideLayout templates
   • GuidePivot tables
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   Upload journals from Excel

   Open the GL Journal Upload, enter a few lines in Excel and upload them: each row shows its status and message.

   • UploadGL Journal Upload
   • GuideUploading data
   • LibraryAll uploads
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   Build a financial statement with drilldown

   Run a financial statement in Excel and drill down from a balance to the journals behind it.

   • ReportGL Financial Statement and Drilldown
   • GuideBlitz FSG
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   Ask AI to analyse your AP invoice holds

   With the Excel add-in skills, let Claude or Microsoft 365 Copilot run the AP Invoice on Hold report, categorise and age the holds.

   • AI skillAP Invoice Holds Analysis
   • ReportAP Invoice on Hold
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   Create a report from your SQL

   Paste a proven SQL script, add two parameters and assign the report to a responsibility.

   • GuideYour first report
   • ReportBlitz Report SQL Validation
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   Add a dependent list of values

   Make a parameter list depend on another parameter, for example subinventories of the chosen organization.

   • GuideLists of values
   • GuideDependent parameters
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   Import a BI Publisher report

   Import one of your BI Publisher reports and compare the Blitz Report output with the original.

   • GuideBI Publisher import
   • AI skillReport Tester
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   Build your own upload

   Create an upload from an API or interface table, starting from the example upload.

   • GuideCreating uploads
   • UploadBlitz Upload Example (Interface Table)
   • AI skillUpload Builder
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    Let Claude Code build and tune a report

    Install the development skills, then ask Claude Code to create a report, test it against the standard report and tune its SQL.

    • AI skillBlitz Report Developer
    • AI skillReport Performance Tuning
    • GuideInstall the development skills
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    Install and run the first report

    Install Blitz Report on a test environment and run the first report: typically less than an hour.

    • GuideInstallation
    • GuideTroubleshooting
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    Set up access roles and check licenses

    Set the Blitz Report Access profile option for your users and review the active license users.

    • GuideAccess profile option
    • ReportBlitz Report License Users
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    Find your most expensive SQL with AWR

    Run DBA AWR SQL Performance Summary for the last week and see the package and code line behind each statement.

    • ReportDBA AWR SQL Performance Summary
    • ToolkitDatabase health and AWR tuning
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    Schedule a concurrent request alert

    Schedule FND Concurrent Requests to email errored requests every morning.

    • ReportFND Concurrent Requests
    • GuideScheduling a report
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    Compare two environments with AI

    Run the same report against test and production and let the Instance Diff skill show the differences.

    • AI skillInstance Diff
    • ReportBlitz Report Comparison between environments