You can use report sections that you create in a report in other reports as well. For example, you can insert a page header that you designed in one report in other reports. To do so, you must edit the XML of the report in which an existing report section is to be integrated.
Note the following when editing the XML:
Note that if you use the ABAP program RS_REPORT_MAINTAIN, the following important information is not saved:
This information is only saved if the Report Designer is used to edit the report.
You therefore can only use the ABAP program RS_REPORT_MAINTAIN if you created a report initial with the Report Designer.
To make sure that the above-mentioned information is not stored incompletely, with the ABAP program you can only edit the XML areas of the report that do not contain any BI fields. A report that was edited incorrectly otherwise could not be loaded into the Report Designer.
The following example describes how to create two simple reports and then copy the header page of the one report to the other report.
Create First Report
Create Second Report
You opened the first report you created or, if you closed it in the meantime, open it again.
Edit XML File
You inserted the report section Page Header that you designed for a certain report into another report by making the corresponding changes to the design time XML.