Reporting Information Structures 

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Enter the name of an activated information structure.

    2. Alternatively you can also enter the name of an archiving object and use input help to display all active information structures belonging to the object.

  2. Choose Archive Info Structure ® Reporting.

This takes you to the Archive Explorer selection screen.

  1. Enter selection criteria to establish which data you want the reporting to read.

    2. If you do not want to restrict the choice, choose Execute.

  2. Choose Execute.

    3. The system displays the archive information structure list. It contains all of the data which the reporting program has read from the fields contained in the information structure.

  3. Double click on the entry you want to access the archive directly. If more than one view is defined for this object, a dialog appears with a choice of views.

    4. Depending on the archiving object, the dialog box offers a technical view or a business view or both. Several business views are also possible.

  4. Select the view you want and choose Continue.

    5. This takes you to the table overview for the selected data object.

  5. Click on the magnifying glass symbol for a table to display the table contents (similar to the display function in transaction SE16).

Result

You are now at the lowest level of data for the archiving object, the field level. You can take the information directly from the table.

See also:

Ad-Hoc Reporting