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Functional Overview

Reports are technical objects in SAP ERP and BI system, which generates the necessary information as output in a well formatted manner. SAP Gateway service for Reporting Management provides a single point of access to SAP ERP and SAP BI reports. You will have access to a list of reports, which have been selected by the administrator and which have been assigned to your user role. You can either execute the report immediately or define a scheduling frequency based on which the report is delivered.

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP ERP on SAP Help Portal at:http://help.sap.com/erp.

Note

SAP Gateway services are supported for the following SAP releases:

  • SAP ERP 6.0

  • SAP BI 7.0 and 3.5

Prerequisite

SAP Gateway system must be configured as mentioned in Settings for Reporting Management on SAP Gateway before using the Reporting Management services.

Entities in SAP Gateway for Reporting Management

There are three main entities in Reporting Management:

  • ReportCollection — ReportCollection is for Reports. Report includes all the information about a report on the SAP system like the report name, description, parameters, parameter details and their fixed values maintained by the administrator.

  • ReportSettingCollection — ReportSettingCollection is for Report Settings. Report Settings are personalized reports, which you can create from a Report whenever you want to schedule a report for execution on the SAP system.

  • ReportResultCollection — This represents the result of execution of a report on the Reporting Management system. You can create a subscription.

Service and Metadata Documents

You can connect to SAP Reporting Management system using SAP Gateway services. The links to access the service document and metadata document is given in the table below.

Service Document

http://<hostname>:<port>/sap/opu/sdata/iwcnt/reporting/?$format=xml&sap-client=<client number>

Metadata Document

http://<hostname>:<port>/sap/opu/sdata/iwcnt/reporting/$metadata?$format=xml&sap-client=<client number>
Note

Contact your system administrator for host name, port and client number.

ReportCollection

ReportCollection is the collection for Reports. Report includes all the information about a report on the SAP system like the report name, description, parameters, parameter details and their fixed values maintained by the administrator.

Note

You can run a Report but you cannot create, update or delete it.

ReportCollection has the following collections listed in the table below:

Collections

Description

ContextGroupCollection

This collection provides information about context groups and context variables, which can be used as parameter values for a Report.

DeliveryFormatCollection

This collection provides information about all the allowed delivery formats for a report like PDF, ZIP.

EventCollection

This collection provides information about the system time points and data change events (that have been configured by the administrator) for a Report.

ParameterCollection

This collection provides information about the parameters and their default values (that have been configured by the administrator) for a Report.

RelatedReportCollection

This collection provides the related reports (that have been configured by the administrator) for a Report.
ReportSettingCollection

ReportSettingCollection is the collection for Report Setting. Report Settings are personalized reports, which you can create from a Report whenever you want to schedule a report for execution on the SAP system.

F4 value help is available for the following fields:

  • ReportType

  • ReportCategory

  • PeriodType