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Prerequisites

Cost element reports are initially available in the delivery client only. Your first task is to transport them to the target client and generate them there.

Cost element groups are a great help in ensuring the reports are clear and concise. Experience has shown that two-level cost element groups are particularly useful.

You can define your own cost element groups in the Project System IMG.

For more information, see the step on the information system in the Project System IMG.

Procedure

  1. You can access cost element reports by choosing one of the following paths in the Easy Access menu:
  1. Enter the controlling area, if required, and choose Continue.
  2. The system displays the dialog box Enter Profile.
  3. Enter a database profile.
  4. The selection screen is that for the logical database. You can enter the following parameters:

In all of the above, you can enter either single objects or ranges of objects. Multiple selection is also available. The entries you make can be saved as a selection variant. You can access this variant again if you need to view this data again. The use of variants improves system performance because the system does not need to select the data from the database again.
  1. If required, you can also enter the cost elements, cost element group, or cost element range you want to access in the report, if they are not the ones the system proposes.

    2. The report contains a separate line for each of the cost elements and nodes in the cost element group. A node summarizes the values for all the cost elements in that node.

  2. Start the program online by choosing Program ® Execute. Alternatively, you can run the program in background processing by choosing either Program ® Execute in background to run the program immediately or Program ® Schedule background job to plan later background processing for the report.

Note

Cost elements, where costs have, in fact, been incurred, but which are not contained in the cost element group, are not displayed in the report. The project balance may, therefore, be displayed incorrectly.

The cost element report always shows the costs for the whole subhierarchy.

 

 

 

 

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