Impact of SLA on Drilldown in General Ledger

Drilldown functionality enables users to navigate from a Journal in General Ledger to the
Subledger Journal Entry in SLA and from there to the transaction which has resulted into that
journal.
To enable Journal drilldown from General Ledger, the "Import Journal References" option should
be enabled for the Source.
This can be checked under General Ledger Responsibility:
Setup -> Journal -> Sources -> Define.
Only when this is enabled, the reference data is populated by SLA engine.
The Drilldown in Release 12 is different from the prior releases of the Application. R12
drilldown is Web based and not in the Forms. The following screenshots show the Drilldown
functionality in Release 12:
Navigation to perform Drilldown is the same as in Release 11i:

Journals -> Enter -> Review Journal

Select the journal line and click on Lines Drilldown.

Drilldown can also be performed from:

Tools -> Drilldown

As mentioned above, Drilldown opens the Web Page instead of Form.

The SLA Page for Drilldown shows the following:

GL Journal Line information

Subledger Journal Line information

There are two Options available on this SLA page:

View Transaction

View Journal Entry

View Transaction will take us to the Subledger Transaction form. E.g for the current journal line,
since the Source was Payables, it opens Invoice Workbench.

View Journal Entry will take to the Subledger Journal Entry details

View Journal Entry has three parts to it.

1. Transaction Information
2. Additional Information (this is hidden by default)
3. Line Details
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Apart from this there are some extra details shown at the top of the page, which is the header
level information for the Subledger Transaction.
Some of the important fields in header part of the Subledger Transaction Journal are:

Ledger Name

Journal Entry Status

Balance Type

GL Date

This is the 'Transaction Information' section of Subledger Journal Entry page.

The fields here will change based on the transaction and the subledger in which the transaction
was entered.
Since the example transaction is entered in Payables, it is showing the details of the invoice and
the supplier.

This is the 'Additional Information' section of Subledger Transaction Entry page.

This section shows the details of

Event

General Ledger

Sequences

Application Accounting Definition

Note that Event and Application Accounting Definition are important from SLA side. However,
from GL perspective the relevant details are Period, Transfer to GL Date and Transfer to GL
status.

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This is the last section, 'Lines' of the Subledger Journal Entry page.
The important details in this section are:

Code Combination

Currency

Entered Debits and Credits

Accounted Debits and Credits

Select the link 'Show' for any of the lines to view additional details for the transaction line

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This page gives various details for transaction line from the sub-ledgers side.
Thus the Drilldown from General Ledger, takes us to the Subledger Journal Entry which shows
the details of the Subledger journal. From here we can further drilldown to the Subledger
Transaction.
Profile Options related to Drilldown:

SLA: Enable Subledger Transaction Security in GL

This profile option controls whether the drilldown to SLA will enforce the transaction
security of the application owning the Transaction. For example, if one drills down to
Payables, he will only be able to see Journals for transactions belonging to operating units to
which he has access (based on your MO: Security Profile.) Thus drilldown can be restricted
to the Operating Units to which the responsibility has access. In case the GL responsibility
does not have access to a particular Operating Unit, the Drilldown will not show any data.

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