Creating a Standard Layout (SAP Library

Creating a Standard Layout

Use

When you first define a report, the default standard layout assigned to the report is always SAP. SAP appears in the Standard layout field at the top of each report parameters screen. This standard layout is shipped with your SAP R/3 System.

When you define a standard layout, you can assign parameters to format groups for certain fields. For parameters that are assigned format groups, you can define up to six different versions of the parameter. Each row and column in a report can use a unique format group. For more information, see Setting Format Groups in Sets.

Procedure

Choose Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Special Purpose Ledger ® Tools ® Report Painter ® Report Writer ® Standard layout ® Create. The Create Standard Layout: Initial Screen appears.

Enter the following information:

– The name of the standard layout you want to create

– The name of the existing standard layout you want to copy

Choose Continue.

The Create Standard Layout screen appears.

Enter the following information:

– Description of the standard layout

– Authorization group for the standard layout. This authorization group is defined in the user's profile.

Suppose you define an authorization group called AUTH. If you assign this authorization group to a standard layout, only users with this authorization group can change, display, and/or delete this standard layout for their reports.

Using the tab pages you can make the changes to the layout that you require. The following table gives you an overview of the different possibilities that you have for defining the standard layout parameters. Each function is assigned to the respective tab page index.

Defining the Standard Layout Parameters

Function	Tab page index
Setting the column headings	Column headings
Defining area for the totals output	Rows
Setting width and position of lead column	Lead column
Defining detail level for row totals	Rows
Setting number of decimal places	Representation
Defining unit	Representation
Setting colors	Graphics
Using form printout	Rows
Setting graphic type	Graphics
Defining content of lead column	Lead column
Defining content of column headings	Column headings
Allowing changes to layout parameters during execution of the report	Page/control
Output of zero values	Representation
Suppressing zero columns	Columns
Printing or hiding zero rows	Rows
Indenting lead column	Lead column
Repeating lead column	Lead column
Setting page format	Page/control
Printing selection log at end of report	Page/control
Setting scaling	Representation
Setting column break character underline	Column headings
Defining column layout	Columns
Setting column break character	Columns
Assigning a language	Language dependent
Using standard colors	Page/control
Suppressing duplicated totals	Rows
Marking totals	Rows
Defining position of totals items	Columns
Defining text type for the row text description in the lead column	Lead column
Displaying undeterminable values	Representation
Setting +/- sign	Representation
Defining +/- sign editing	Rows

For more information on the layout parameters, see Parameters for the Standard Layout.

You can use the following additional functions from the Create Standard Layout screen:

Additional Functions

Function	Choose
Display directory of existing standard layouts	Utilities ® Catalog...
Export standard layout to an external file (see Exporting Report Writer Objects)	Utilities ® Transport ® Export
Import standard layout from an external file (see Importing Report Writer Objects)	Utilities ® Transport ® Import

To save the standard layout header, choose Standard layout ® Save.