Adding Reports to a Report Group

Prerequisites

You have reached step 5 of the procedure creating a report group or you want to add an additional report to a report group. On the Create Report Group screen you have already chosen Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Reports End of the navigation path and are on the screen Create Report Group: Reports .

Procedure

  1. In the Report field, enter the name of the report that you want to add to the report group. You can enter more than one report.

The Report Writer processes the reports in the same order that you list them. To optimize processing time, the reports that you include in a report group should have the same characteristics and use the same data.

  1. To save the report group, choose Start of the navigation path Report group Next navigation step Save End of the navigation path .

You can use the following additional processing functions on the Create Report Group: Reports screen:

Function

Choose

Add additional reports to report group

Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step New entries End of the navigation path

Insert report between two other reports

Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Insert row End of the navigation path

Delete report from report group

Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Delete row End of the navigation path

Enter header information for the report group

Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Header End of the navigation path

Enter text for the selection screens

Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Texts End of the navigation path

Define report group documentation. See Defining Report Documentation

Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Documentation End of the navigation path

Display where a report defined for the report group is used

Start of the navigation path Extras Next navigation step Report usage... End of the navigation path

Change definition of report assigned to report group

Start of the navigation path Extras Next navigation step Report definition End of the navigation path

For utilities, see Report Writer Utilities

Utilities

Result

You have added a report to a report group and can now continue with step 6 of the procedure for creating a report group .