Comparing Reports (SAP Library - Product Safety (EHS-SAF))

Comparing Reports

Prerequisites

The reports you want to compare must have one of the following statuses:

R1,...(Release 1,...)
RE (Released)
CO (Complete)
GS (Gen. successful)

Historic => HI

You must have maintained the environment parameter REPORT_COMP_EXECUTABLE in the IMG activity Specify environment parameters in Customizing for Product Safety.

Procedure

From the Product Safety screen, choose Reports ® Edit reports ® General (or Validate, Release, Version, Set to historical) or choose Reports ® Report information system.

Enter your search criteria (see: Processing Worklists for Reports).

Choose Report ® Navigation area ® Report tree.

If the R/3 System finds one or more reports that correspond to your search criteria, the Report Management: Report tree screen appears.

Select two reports by choosing Edit ® Subtree ® Select subtree.

Choose Extras ® Report comparison.

Result

Depending on your PC installation, Word is started. The report you selected first is displayed and the differences between it and the second report are marked.

You can compare any two selected reports. If you select one report only, the R/3 System compares it automatically with its released previous version.

See also:

Report Information System