Creating a Report Group 

Use

A report group is a collection of reports from one library that are to be output together. You use a report group to collate reports that are similar in order to improve performance.

Before you can output reports, you must have assigned them to a report group. You can either assign a report to an existing report group or create a new report group for it. For more information on report groups, see Report Groups.

To create a report group you can either proceed as described below or create the report group from the report definition. For more information, see Creating a Report Group from the Report Definition.

Procedure

  1. Choose Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Special Purpose Ledger ® Tools ® Report Painter ® Report Writer ® Report Group ® Create. The screen Create Report Group: Initial Screen appears.
  2. Enter a name for the report group. The name must have four characters. You can create a report group in either of the following ways:

Enter the name of the existing report group that you want to copy in the Copy from - Report group field. When the report group is copied, the library assigned to it is copied automatically as well.

or

Enter the name of the library of the reports you want to include in the report group in the New entry - Library field. All reports in a report group must be in the same library.
  1. Enter header information for the report group. To do this, choose Goto ® Header. The Create Report Group: Header screen appears. For more information about entering header information, see Entering Header Information for a Report Group.
  2. If you want to enter detailed documentation for the report group, choose Goto ® Documentation. This procedure is the same as the one used to define report documentation. For more information, see Defining Report Documentation.
  3. To add reports to the report group, choose Goto ® Reports from one of the Create Report Group screens. The Create Report Group: Reports screen appears. For more information on entering reports, see Adding Reports to a Report Group.
  4. To enter selection texts for the report group, choose Goto ® Texts from one of the Create Report Group screens. The screen Create Report Group: Texts for Selection Screens appears. For more information on entering selection texts for a report group, see Entering Selection Texts for a Report Group.
  5. To save your entries, choose Report group ® Save. You can now execute the report group. For more information, see Report Group Execution, Executing a Report Group, and Executing a Report Group in the Background.