When you create a drilldown report, you first need to choose the aspect whose data you wish to analyze. Each report has a unique name and a short description. A report can be created as either a basic report or a form report. The report with a form gives you the chance to freely configure the layout using a form, which the basic report does not. When you create a form report, you enter the name of the pre-defined form which contains the report layout.

In a report, we differentiate between two types of list. In a drilldown list, several objects (characteristic values), for example, divisions, are contained in the rows and a selection of key figures (for example, revenue and contribution margin 1) are contained in the columns. In a detail list, a single object (for example, the combination of customer X in sales area 1) is broken down into all its component key figures. The rows of the list are filled with the key figures and the columns may contain, for example, the planned and actual values for the object.

The following examples illustrate how you work with a basic report and a form report: