Row Patterns
The row pattern concept is a central component in Enterprise Report Design. It enables creation of reports with dynamic sections. With reports of this type, the number of characteristic values in the drilldown is not when creating the report. It becomes visible at runtime.
Basic Guidelines for Structuring Reports
To understand the row pattern concept, look at the structure of a report with dynamic sections:
As you can see in the figure, a report can contain more than one row type. One specifically formatted row is applied to column headers or for results values. Each row type has a template or row pattern that describes the color, font, height and width of the rows.
Group Levels
The figure above shows the structure of a query in a report with characteristics, structures and hierarchies. The query layout is defined in the structure element drilldown in the columns and rows in the query. Every structure element in the rows of the query corresponds to a group level in the row pattern concept. The number of possible group levels in a report therefore depends on the drilldown state of the query.
Structure of the Group Levels
Each group level has the following:
- Header area
- Detail area
- Footer area
The detail area can also contain its own group level (with a header, footer and detail area). This allows group levels to be nested. The innermost group level of a report has detail rows that contain key figures.
Report Designer generates a row pattern for each area of a group level.
In the second figure, the calendar years row corresponds to the header area for group level 1.
Row Patterns
Row patterns are the smallest units in a BEx Report that are not divided by pages. Row patterns contain cell grids. These can have specific properties.
More information: Properties of Row Patterns .
Report Web Item
Web item Reportuses the row pattern and data to generate the header, together with the detail and footer areas. When the report is executed in Report Designer, Web Item Report is called.