Transporting Report Writer Objects

Use

You can copy the Customizing settings for the following to a transport request using the function Transport request :

  • Standard layouts

  • Libraries

  • Reports

  • Report Writer report groups

  • Report group variants

  • Key figures

  • Report Painter models

Procedure

  1. From one of the Report Writer screens, choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Transport Next navigation step Transport request End of the navigation path . The Transport: Report Writer screen appears :

  2. Select the object for which you want to include the Customizing settings in the transport request and choose Execute .

  3. The Report Writer: Include <Object Name> in Transport Request screen appears. Enter the selection criteria as required.

  4. In the group box Further details , depending on the object you selected, you can select at least one and at the most three of the following settings.

  • If you want to execute the request for all the selected objects directly, select the Without selection list indicator. This makes particularly good sense for batch processing. If you do not select this indicator the system displays a list of all the selected objects and you can choose the object you want to transport.

  • Indicator that determines if all dependent objects are transported.

Example Example

If you transport a report and select the With dependent objects indicator, the system includes the report and all the objects defined for the report (sets, variables, formulas, libraries and standard layouts) in the transport request.

End of the example.

  • For report groups, you can specify whether you also want to transport the variants.

The following table shows the dependent objects that are transported for a specific Report Writer object.

If the Report Writer object is a

Then the following dependent objects are transported

Libraries

Default selection sets (except CO groups)

Reports

Sets (except CO groups), key figures, libraries, standard layouts

Report group

Reports, sets (except CO groups), key figures, libraries, standard layouts

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path Program Next navigation step Execute End of the navigation path .

If you did not select Without selection list , a selection screen of Report Writer objects appears:

  1. Select the Report Writer objects that you want to transport.

  2. Choose Execute .

The objects are included in your chosen Customizing request.