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Differences Between Report Painter and Report Writer

Former Member
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Hi,

Anyone knows the differences between report painter and report writer?

Thanks,

CW

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Former Member
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Hello CW Teo,

Report Writer is a tool for creating reports that meet specific business and reporting requirements.

Report Writer enables you to report on data from multiple applications. Using functions such as sets, variables, formulas, cells and key figures, you can create complex reports that meet specific reporting requirements.

When working with Report Writer, you can use certain functions that are not supported by Report Painter. These functions include:

Multidimensional column structures

User-defined definition of inactive row and column combinations

Enhanced functions for using cells in column formulas.

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Report Painter: The Report Painter is similar to the Report Writer, but is simpler to use. Most of the functions in the Report Writer are also available in the Report Painter. The Report Painter is based on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) principle.The main components of report painter are characterestics and basic key figure.

Characteristics must be defined in your report, either as data selection criteria, report rows, or report columns. To improve processing time, you should specify all characteristics in general data selection that are not needed in the report rows or columns.

The process flow for report writer/report painter is almost same and is as following.

Create Set->select library->define report->Check report->Assign report to report group->Generate report->Execute report.

Hope I had been able to help you. please assign points.

Rgds

Manish

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Hi Manish,

We know that they are mainly used in the FICO modules.

Any possiblities to use the report painter/writer on the logistics modules?

Thanks,

CW

Former Member
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Hello CW Teo,

Yes report writer can be used in logistics also. One of the way which I am aware of is described below.

Flexible analyses allow you to can tailor the way in which key figures are combined and aggregated. This means that it is possible to both provide administrators with detailed information and management with aggregated information.

Flexible analyses enable easy access to the Report Writer, a user-friendly tool with which you can create reports for various analyses. The Report Writer is integrated in other SAP applications, such as Extended General Ledger and Cost Center Accounting.

Evaluation structures form the interface to the Report Writer. Evaluation structures consist of characteristics and key figures and are easy to constuct. An evaluation structure with the same name exists for each information structure in the standard system.Even the self-defined information structures created in Customizing can be evaluated via the flexible analyses.

Evaluations:You can create an evaluation on the basis of the evaluation structure.

To define an evaluation, all you need to do is select the characteristics and key figures you require (pick-up technique).One of the especially useful features here is that you have the option of tailoring the layout of your report to suit your particular requirements. You can also define extra key figures for the reports, which are derived from existing key figures by means of calculation formulas. You can thereby multiply the key figures or divide one key figure by another.

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In addition to the above you can also edit a report in logistics module with the help of a report writer. below mentioned is the process for it.

It is now possible to edit your report data using the Report Writer. You can also change the layout of the report. The most important functions of the layout design are summarized below.

Summation levels:In the report screen, you can use the menu sequence View ->Summation level to specify the number of summation used to calculate total values. All totals that do not lie within the specified interval will be hidden. A summation level corresponds to a hierarchical level (for example, material level). Summation level 1 is the lowest hierarchical level. Summation level 2 is the next level up, and so on. The individual values are on the summation level 0.

The summation levels can be specified both universally (for the entire report) or locally (for specific blocks of rows). In this case, the local settings overwrite global values.

Report views:If a report is displayed on the screen, the Report Writer will then set page breaks so that exactly one page fits into the current window. This view will be defined as the standard view. As the Report Writer always processes exactly one page, you can only use the page keys and page icons to page up and down; the scroll bars cannot be used.

The page view can be determined via Settings-> Page view. The page breaks in the page view correspond to those defined in the report layout.

Hide and show rows:The function Edit->Hide rows exclude certain preselected areas of your report from the display. You can undo this command with Edit ® Show rows.

Expanding and collapsing report rows:View-> Hierarchy->Collapse allows you to hide the report rows of the sub-trees that are located underneath. View->Hierarchy ->Expand allows you to undo this command level by level.

If you want to display all the report rows that were hidden by collapsing the hierarchy or restricting the summation levels, select, View->Hierarchy-> Expand all.

View->Collapse all allows you to reduced every row block to the highest summation level.

Texts and Annotations:You can create an annotation for your report.

Select: Extras->Annotation.

You branch into the text editor of the Report Writer.

Via the menu sequence Settings->Texts, you can create and format a title page, the last page, as well as headers and footers using word processing functions.

For example, you can store variables in the header for the author of the report, the date of the selection or the name of the person who last changed the report.

Layout parameters:Using the menu sequence Settings->Layout you can specify the page format, display form, rows and columns of the report according to your needs and you can determine the settings for the graphics function. You can make these layout settings with Report->Save settings.

Hope I had been able to help you to some extent. please assign points as reward.

Rgds

Manish

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