Calling Up Reports via the Report/Report Interface

Use

The report/report interface allows you to interactively start report groups, ABAP programs, report portfolio reports, drilldown reports, and transactions while displaying the report output.

Prerequisites

If receiver reports have been defined for the report’s report group or library , you can call up these reports using the Call up report function.

Procedure

You can generally access the receiver report from the sender report by selecting a cell and then double clicking this or choosing .

Note Note

When you call the receiver report, the characteristics' restrictions that gave rise to the value in the sender report are passed on to the receiver report.

If, for example, a value is characterized in the sender report by the characteristics year , cost element , period , and value type , these characteristics are passed on to the receiver report.

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There are four different ways of calling up a report using the report/report interface, whereby the starting position is the deciding factor for the receiver report:

  • If you want to call up a receiver report with the restrictions that are valid for a certain value in a cell, position the cursor on a value in the report and double click it or choose .

The receiver report is called up with the selection criteria that gave rise to this particular value.

If there is only one receiver report, this is displayed immediately; otherwise a list appears from which you can select a report that is then displayed.

  • If you want to call up a receiver report with selection criteria that are valid for a certain row , position the cursor on the row text in the lead column and choose . The receiver report is called up with the selection criteria that are valid for the whole row.

  • If you want to call up a receiver report with selection criteria that are valid for a certain column , position the cursor on the column heading and choose . The receiver report is called up with the selection criteria that are valid for the whole column.

  • If you want to call up a receiver report with selection criteria that are valid for a certain area , select two cells with . The entire rectangular area between these two cells is selected.

Example Example

In the following example the cells have been given coordinates for easier identification. Cells B2 and D4 have been selected and thus the entire rectangular area between them is selected as well.

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A1

B1

C1

D1

E1

A2

B2

C2

D2

E2

A3

B3

C3

D3

E3

A4

B4

C4

D4

E4

A5

B5

C5

D5

E5

Note Note

You can display or change the receiver reports that you want to call up from the report output using Start of the navigation path Settings Next navigation step Report/report interface... Next navigation step . To change receiver reports in this way, you must first select End of the navigation path Change allowd dur exctn (under Start of the navigation path Settings Next navigation step Report layout End of the navigation path , tab page Page/control , group box Control data ).

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For more information on defining reports for the report/report interface, see Defining Reports for the Report/Report Interface .