Working With Variation Ranges in Report Writer 

The organizational structure of the enterprise BSG Inc. consists of an administration (ADMIN), sales and distribution (DIST) and a production department (PROD), each of which has two cost centers:

The database contains the following data for fiscal year 1992:

Cost centers

Account

100

110

200

210

300

310

Wages

50,00

100,00

250,00

250,00

550,00

350,00

Salaries

500,00

250,00

150,00

450,00

150,00

100,00

Without a variation a report with the cost center hierarchy in the general data selections, the two accounts as a row and the fiscal year 1992 as a column is output as follows:

Total of all cost centers

Account

1992

Wages

1550,00

Salaries

1600,00

Examples:

Using this setting you can call up a list for each element of the hierarchy within the variation range online.

The following list appears for the hierarchy node DIST with hierarchy level 2:

Account

1992

Wages

Salaries

500,00

600,00

(Total for cost center 200 & 210)

In batch processing nine lists are produced for the following elements: