Entering Search Criteria for Reports (SAP Library

Entering Search Criteria for Reports

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Report Applications you have defined the report applications for whose objects you want to search. As standard, the report applications Specification master, Material master, Work area, and Accident victim are supplied.

You have chosen one of the following paths in the Product Safety screen:

Reports ® Edit reports ® General (

Reports)

Reports ® Edit reports ® Validate

Reports ® Edit reports ® Release

Reports ® Edit reports ® Versioning

Reports ® Edit reports ® Set to historical

Reports ® Report information system (

Report)

Procedure

You can restrict the search according to:

Report category
Report language
Validity area
Validity date

Depending on the starting path, you can also search for:

Different report statuses

The status of the report directly after it has been generated depends on the generation variant indicators.

A specific generation variant and a specific generation period

Note

In the report information system, searching according to report status and generation variant is not possible. In the report information system, only released reports are displayed that are organized according to report category. (The report category is determined via the generation variant.) In the report information system, you can also search for reports without a specification reference (see Labels).

You can specify objects in the following report applications as search criteria if required:

Specifications from specification management
Materials from the material master
Work areas from the work area

Accident event (combination of the key for the incident/accident log entry and the address number of the person involved) for the person affected

If you enter only the report category Accident report in the initial screen as the search criterion, the SAP System first searches for all generation variants for the report category Accident report. All combinations of the log entry key and the person are taken into account here. Every combination is displayed in the report tree. By entering search criteria such as log entry key or person, you can restrict the number of combinations.

Note

The SAP System always takes only the search criteria for the currently selected report application into account during the search.

See Example: Using Application Objects.

The following functions are available in the initial screen for report management and the report information system:

To enter new search parameters, choose Search criteria that deletes any previously specified search criteria.
To search for individual object keys, use the input help (F4).
To search generically for object keys and to take a number of objects from the hit list to use simultaneously as search criteria, choose .

To switch between the areas:

Choose the tab page

Select the required application.

To call the application for the current transaction, choose .
To enter the application on the first tab page so it appears there when you call the transaction the next time, choose .