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Use

You use this function to print query views, snapshots, or dashboards. When printing dashboards, the system prints all the query views and snapshots they contain.

Features

The printouts contain the following information:

  • Header information:

    • User name

    • Date of the print

    • Time of the print

    • Query ID

    • Query view ID

    • Query view name

    • Query view description

  • Query view input parameter

    • Table of query input parameters

  • Query view result:

    • Table (Optional)

    • Business Graphic (Optional)

The following print forms are available:

  • /BCV/QVIEWS_PRINTING_PORTRAIT: Creates printouts in letter format and portrait orientation

  • /BCV/QVIEWS_PRINTING_LANDSCAPE: Creates printouts in letter format and landscape orientation

You can display and change the forms using transaction SFP. You can also create new forms.

Activities

Printing

To print a query view, snapshot, or dashboard, open it from the side panel or BCV cockpit and choose Start of the navigation path Functions Next navigation step Print End of the navigation path.

Printing Parameters

To set up printing parameters, open the query view, snapshot, or dashboard from the side panel, and choose Start of the navigation path Functions Next navigation step Print Options End of the navigation path.

You can also set up default printing parameters for the print forms in Customizing, under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications Next navigation step Business Context Viewer Next navigation step Maintenance Next navigation step Define Printing Parameters End of the navigation path. In the same activity, you can register your own print forms.