Executing Period-Based Report Painter Reports with Multiple Selection
Prerequisites
In order to execute multiple selection in background jobs, you must first save a variant. A variant contains the selection criteria for a particular report.
Execution of Period-Based Report Painter Reports).To produce periodic reports at defined intervals, you must perform the following steps.
Procedure
1. To carry out multiple selection from the Cost Center Accounting initial screen, choose Information system
® Tools ® Report Painter.From the Report Painter initial screen, choose Report Writer
® Execute report group.2. To create a variant for multiple selection, choose Utilities
® Variant maintenance ® Multiple selection.· Enter a name for the variant and choose Create.
· Choose Continue.
· Enter the selection parameters for the variant.
· Choose Continue.
· Enter a description for your variant.
· Save your variant.
· Return to the Execute Report Group initial screen.
3. To schedule a background job for multiple selection, choose Utilities ® Background job ® Multiple selection (see: Scheduling Background Jobs as well as Editing Step Lists and Assigning Variants).
4. Monitor the processing status of the background job with the job overview functions (see: Checking the Processing Status