You use the generation variant indicator to specify the stages in the status network in
report management
through which a report must pass when it is created for the first time (see
Report Status Network
,
Report Editing
).
Using the
Change Marks
indicator, you can also specify that
relevant
changes made to specification data since the reports were previously generated should be marked on reports (see
Change Marking
).
You can use the following indicators:
Generate manual requests automaticall y
indicator
Initial Situation |
Result |
---|---|
You have set the indicator. |
The report is given the status that you specified as
|
You have not set the indicator. |
If you create the report request manually, the report is given the status RR (report request), independent of the other indicators. You carry out the conversion to
Report requests that have been created automatically are always generated by the system. |
Change Marks field
Initial release status
field
In the standard system, you can enter the following as an initial status:
GS (
Generation successful
)
R1 (
Release 1
)
RY (
Ready
)
RE (
Released
)
The switch to the next status is carried out for status GS, R1, and CO by means of the
Accept
function. If you want to delete the report, choose
Reject
.
You can use the
Set to Historical
function to manually set a report that has status RE to the next status HI (
Historical
).
Version requirement
indicator
Set historical automatically
indicator
The report is set to the status HI automatically if the
Set historical automatically
indicator is set and a new report for the same specification, generation variant, and language is generated subsequently with status RE.