Report Tree

Use

Reports are displayed in report management in a hierarchical tree structure. As standard, you can choose the following report applications as views:

  • Material master

  • Specification master

You can define other report applications in the IMG activity Specify Report Applications in Customizing for Product Safety.

Note Note

You can select reports with a specification reference in report management or the report information system.

You can only open reports without a reference to a specification, for example, accident reports, in the report information system.

End of the note.

See also:

Report Editing

Search and Data Output in the Report Information System

Features

Specification View

The data is arranged as follows:

  • Specification key for which the report was generated and identifiers

  • Generation variant with validity area

  • Report with version, language, status, and remark

You can display each report or display additional information for it (for example, on the status log or report size).

Material View

If you start directly in the material view, you will only be shown reports to which a material is assigned via the material-specification assignment. The material is displayed as the top branch in the material view:

  • If a specification is used in several materials, the reports for this specification are displayed in the report tree for each material.

  • If a material is assigned to two or more specifications, all assigned specifications and reports are arranged beneath the material.

Activities

Changing Views

Using the Toggle view ( ) function you can toggle between the views in the report tree.

The prerequisite for displaying an additional branch in the called view is that the report template contains symbols for the report application to which the view is assigned.

Assigning a Specific Object Key

If you toggle between the views, it is possible that you may choose a view in which the SAP System cannot find an assignment between a report and the object that belongs to this view.

If symbols for the report application of the object are created on the report template, however, the SAP System displays the text DEFAULT KEY as the object key. If you choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Change default key End of the navigation path you can assign a specific object key to the object. For this, the object key must have been created in the SAP System.

If no symbols are created on the report template for the object's report application, the branch with the text DEFAULT KEY is not displayed.