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Prerequisites

With some reports in the standard system, you can specify the selection criteria you want to use in the selection screen of the report. To do this, you create your own selection variants.

Example

The report Analyze Costing Run in the Information System for Product Cost Planning is supplied in different variants to enable different questions to be answered by the different report variants. One variant of the report compares two cost estimates with each other, while another variant compares a material price with the cost estimate value. Because the desired information for each report variant is different, each report variant has its own selection variant that contains the appropriate selection criteria. The report Variances Between Costing Runs, for example, requires a selection screen in which two different cost estimates can be entered.

Procedure

Define your own selection variants that determine the structure of the selection screen.

Proceed as follows:

  1. Call up the report for which you want to define a selection variant.
  2. In the selection screen of the report, choose Goto ® Variant ® Save as variant
  3. Give the variant a name and define additional criteria for the display of the variant. From a field catalog, choose the fields that you want to be hidden in the selection screen. You can also specify which fields should be filled with a table variable or a function module.
  4. Specify the selection screen to which the variant is assigned.
  5. Save your entries.

Result

Use your selection variant with Get variant in the selection screen of the report. A dialog box appears with all existing selection variants. Choose a variant. The selection screen of the report now contains only the selection criteria that you specified in your variant.

 

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