Defining Reports for the Report/Report Interface 

Use

The report/report interface allows you to call reports from other R/3 application components when you output your report data. You can call up report portfolio reports, drilldown reports, transactions, receiver reports, Report Writer reports, Report Painter reports, and ABAP programs.

If you define reports for the report/report interface in both the report group header and in the report group’s library, the system uses the reports that you have defined specifically for the report group.

Example

Your system is delivered with an ABAP program called RGGD1300, which displays line items for the FI-SL summary tables. The program reads the data from the FI-SL line item table and outputs a list of the line items.

You can call up program RGGD1300 directly (System ® Services ® Reporting) or from the report/report interface if it is defined as a receiver report for another Report Writer report. In a report that displays totals, you can then display the line items for a specific totals record.

To call program RGGD1300 as a receiver report to display line items for totals data in a report:

Procedure for Example

  1. In the application menu, choose Information Systems ® Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Special Purpose Ledger ® Report Painter ® Report Writer ® Report Group ® Change. Choose the symbol Header.

    2. The screen Change Report Group: Header appears.

  2. The group box Report/report interface contains information on the current assignment of the reports in this report group to the library of the report group. To assign a report to the report group, choose Configure.... The Assign Reports dialog box appears.
  3. To enter a receiver report for the report/report interface, choose Insert row .

The Report Writer Report Selection dialog box appears.
  1. To enter program RGGD1300 as the receiver report, choose Other Report Type.

A dialog box appears, listing the possible report types.

The receiver reports you assign can be report portfolio reports, drilldown reports, transactions, Report Writer reports, and ABAP programs. This enables you to call receiver reports from other R/3 application components once you have output your report data.

You should normally assign receiver reports to the report group.

 

In this example, we are using the ABAP program RGGD1300 as the receiver report.
  1. Position the cursor on ABAP Report and choose . The Add ABAP/4 Report dialog box appears.
  2. Enter RGGD1300 as the receiver report and choose .

    3. The default text of program RGGD1300 is displayed in the Assign Reports dialog box.

  3. You can use the following additional processing functions in this dialog box:

    4. Additional Processing Functions - Dialog Box for Report/Report Interface

    Function

    Choose

    Save receiver report for report/report interface

     Save

    Add receiver report to report/report interface definition

     Insert row

    Delete entry in report/report interface definition

     Delete row

    Insert report from another system (cross-system report assignment). You log on to the other system, select a receiver report, and transfer it to the sender system.

     Add external report

    Select one or more receiver reports for further processing (for example, to move the selected report to another position in the list)

     Select line

    Move selected receiver report to another position in the list. If the cursor is positioned on a receiver report, the selected report is inserted before this receiver report. If the cursor is not positioned on a receiver report, the selected report is inserted at the end of the list.

     Move

    Display default text of a receiver report if you have previously overwritten the default text of the report. Note: when you first enter a receiver report, the default text for this report is automatically displayed.

     Default text

    Display all reports to which the specified sender report is assigned as the receiver report. If you activate this function again, the original list is displayed.

    Sender <-> Receiver

    Display technical information on the receiver report(s) (for example, the report tool and the technical report name)

    Technical names on/off

    Documentation on displaying and maintaining the report assignment in the report/report interface

     Help

  4. Choose to save your entries.

Example

The Report Writer uses ABAP program RGGD1300 as shown in the following graphic:

The report in the graphic displays accounts by periods. This report is assigned to report group TD00. Report group TD00 has been defined such that ABAP program RGGD1300 is a receiver report in the report group (on the Create Report Group: Header screen).

Program RGGD1300 is called up with the Report Writer as follows:
    1. After selecting the report data for the report, the system displays the report.

      2. You can select part of the displayed report and have the system display the associated line items.

    2. Select amount 600 for account 4000020 in period 1 from the report.
    3. When you choose Reports, the system generates a list of the reports that are defined as receiver reports in report group TD00 (Create Report Group: Header screen).
    4. Select program RGGD1300.
    5. The Report Writer adopts the selection criteria from the report (such as the company code, ledger, account, and period) and starts the ABAP program RGGD1300. This program displays the line items that meet the selection criteria (company code TD11, ledger D2, account 4000020, period 1).

For more information on calling receiver reports, see Functions in the Report Output.