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Create
Profitability Report
In this activity, you can create your own
profitability reports as well as display and change existing ones. The
following describes how to go about creating a new report.
There are two types of report you can define
here - basic reports and form reports. A basic report displays the
characteristics and value fields you specify using a standard layout. This
type of report is best suited to searching for trends in data classified by
various characteristics. Form reports, on the other hand, allow you to display
the characteristics and key figures according to your requirements. This type
of report is based on a form that you define yourself.
Activities
1. Decide which
type of report you would like to create.
2. From the
available characteristics, select those that you want to analyze in a report.
Use the arrow button to add them to the "selected characteristics" area. If
needed, you can maintain additional settings, such as hierarchies, variables
or characteristic values. You can reduce the number of characteristics offered
on the selection screen using
characteristic groups.
3. Select the
key figures you want to analyze. You can choose from the value fields of your
operating concern and any key figures defined in a specified key figure
scheme.
4. If needed,
you can specify limitation values for the variables defined for the report.
Select "Enter at execution" if you want your users to be able to enter or
replace these values when they execute the report.
5. Selection
the output type to be used to display the report.
- By using the "graphical report-output", you
can obtain a report consisting of several information areas: the header and
navigation area, the graphics area, and the drilldown and detail list. You can
use an HTML template to include individual graphics as the report header. With
this output type, functions such as navigation and switching drilldown are
performed via the "drag and drop" function.
Select the desired output areas and an HTML template.
- If you select the output type "classic
drilldown", your reports continue to be presented as a drilldown
list.
- By selecting the "object list", you can use
the ABAP List Viewer to display a report.This is of particular use if you want
to display several characteristics in the lead column.
- If you select the output type "XXL
(spreadsheet)", you can display your reports in Microsoft Excel.
6. Under
"Options", you can find settings for the print layout and performance settings
for report execution, such as whether the system should display the current
data or the data from the last summarization level update (see also the F1
Help on performance).
By setting the "inSight" indicator, you can use inSight to call up the current
report.
Note: Not all of the above
steps may be possible or necessary in all instances.
Requirements
If you want to use forms, characteristic
groups, variables, or key figure groups, you need to define these
first.
Further
Notes
For more information, see the sections
Creating Reports in the online documentation for CO-PA and in the
cross-application documentation for drilldown reporting.