Report Painter

Use

Report Painter allows you to create reports using data from SAP application components, which you can adapt to meet your individual requirements.

Many of your reporting requirements can already be met by using the standard reports provided by various SAP application components. If these SAP standard reports do not meet your reporting needs, Report Painter enables you to define your specific reports quickly and easily.

Report Painter fulfills a function similar to Report Writer , but is easier to use. Most of the functions found in Report Writer have been built into Report Painter; however, you do not need to be familiar with all Report Writer concepts (such as Sets ) in order to use Report Painter.

When executing a Report Painter report, it is displayed by the system in Report Writer format. You thus have access to the same functions as for Report Writer reports defined in the same way, and can combine Report Painter and Report Writer reports together in a report group.

Report Painter uses a graphical report structure, which forms the basis for your report definition and displays the rows and columns as they appear in the final report output.

To facilitate report definition, you can use many of the standard reporting objects provided by SAP (such as libraries, row/column models, and standard layouts) in your own specific reports. When you define a Report Painter report you can use groups (sets). You can also enter characteristic values directly.

Advantages of Report Painter include:

  • Flexible and simple report definition

  • Report definition without using sets

  • Direct layout control: The rows and columns are displayed in the report definition as they appear in the final report output, making test runs unnecessary.

Note Note

If you are working with transfer prices (multiple value approaches), you define a column in the report using the Valuation characteristic and enter a variable for this column. A ready-for-input field appears in the selection screen for the valuation (legal valuation, group valuation, profit center valuation) if you have activated the updating of parallel valuations in at least one controlling area of the current client. If you do not use the update of multiple valuations, the system does not display the valuation on the selection screen.

For more information on multiple valuation approaches/transfer prices, see Multiple Valuation Approaches and also the SAP Library under Start of the navigation path EC Enterprise Controlling Next navigation step EC Profit Center Accounting Next navigation step Transfer Prices Next navigation step . End of the navigation path

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For comprehensive information on the Report Painter, see the SAP Library , under Start of the navigation path Financial Accounting Next navigation step Special Purpose Ledger Next navigation step Report Painter Reports End of the navigation path