Report Painter: Creating and Using a Report Model 

The Report Painter is a tool to create a report. Many user-defined reports have common elements such as standard columns or rows. With the Report Painter, you can define new reports even more quickly by using the model feature.

This scenario demonstrates how you define a report model and then use it during report creation in the Report Painter.

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Process Chain

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Creating the Model

Defining the Column to Display Actual Costs

Defining the Column to Display Planned Costs

Defining the Column to Display the Absolute Variance

Defining the Column to Display the Variance as a Percentage

Creating the Report

Defining the Rows

Exploding the Rows

Defining the Columns Referencing a Model

Defining Additional Selection Criteria

Checking and Saving the Report

Assigning the Report to a Report Group

Adding the Report to the Report Tree

Executing the Report from the Report Tree