Report
Editing 
Purpose
See Report Management.
Reports without references to a specification do not appear in report management, but are handled as released reports after the assignment of a generation variant to the report template and appear directly in the report information system.
Prerequisites
· You have the appropriate authority to edit reports in report management:
A user with authorization for the rating PUBLIC can only display entries that originated from generation variants rated as PUBLIC only.
· You have installed the current version of Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI).
· To generate reports from report templates, so far you have done the following:
...
a.
You have edited the
identifiers and value assignments including usage and active indicator in
specification management (see 
Specification
Editing).
b.
You have created the
report template (see Document Template
Editing).
c.
You have defined the
layout of the report template and released it (see Document Template
Layout Editing).
d.
You have created a
generation variant, entered the usage for it, and assigned the appropriate
report template to it (see Generation Variant
Editing).
·
To display inbound reports,
you have installed on your front end an application that can output the format
of the inbound reports.
· To generate a worklist, you have edited the Worklist section in Customizing for Product Safety.
Process Flow
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1.
In the hit list for
specifications, you can generate a test report from a report
template that contains specification symbols to test the layout
and print the report as required. The report template must have the status
Released or In
work.
Report
templates are linked to the usage via generation
variants.
2.
You first create a report
for a specification, a generation variant, and a language by creating a report
request manually in specification management.
The SAP system replaces the symbols that relate to specification data or
phrases. The parameters that relate to other data in the SAP system are
determined at the time the final report is
generated.
3. You can use the SAP system to generate a worklist for reports in which changes have been made subsequently to phrase or specification data. The SAP system automatically subsequently generates all reports affected and sets the reports to the initial status you defined in the generation variant header.
The system places manually created report requests in the worklist automatically.
You can monitor generation with the WWI monitor.
4. In report management, the reports are displayed in the report tree. The worklist is edited depending on the status of a report.
When
generated, the report has the initial status you defined in the generation
variant header. You use the initial status and the generation variant
indicators to determine if a report:
¡ Must be generated manually as it was created manually
¡ Must pass through different control points in release
¡ Must be taken into account in versioning
¡ Is to be set to status Historical automatically if a new report is generated subsequently and released
5. You can use the following additional functions in report management:
¡ From the report tree, you can display reports as Microsoft Word documents. The SAP system determines default values for report symbols of type Parameter. You can overwrite these values.
¡ The assignment of specifications enables you to assign several specifications to one report (n:m relationship between specification and report).
¡ You can compare the currently released report with the previous version.
Result
Starting from the report information system, you can ship and export released reports.
See also:
Search and Data Output in the Report Information System