Printing Reports with Characteristic Hierarchies 
Printing Reports with Characteristic Hierarchies
When you print a report that contains hierarchies of one or more characteristics, you need to observe certain special factors, including
Level of Expansion of a Hierarchy
To prepare a report for printing, the system normally drills down on each line containing a characteristic that lies above the deepest level of detail (see also
Example: Mass Print Drilldown List). This is not the case when you print a list containing a hierarchy.When you print a hierarchy, you must first expand the hierarchy down to the level set under Navigate
® Hierarchy.The rows broken down after the following characteristic are:
The other nodes are not broken down.
The other nodes are not broken down.
The hierarchy displayed below is expanded down to the lowest level (level 3: customer subgroup). Since the nodes All customers and Customer group A are neither end nodes nor nodes at the lowest level, these are not broken down in the printout.
Expansion of a Hierarchical List
Hierarchies are always printed with the display type asterisk display. The higher levels of the hierarchy are represented with asterisks in such a way that the higher a line is in the hierarchy, the more asterisks it has. In the following graphic, the lines at the highest level are shown with two asterisks, while the lines directly below them are shown with one. The lines representing the lowest level of the hierarchy do not have asterisks. If any lines of the report have more than three asterisks, only one asterisk appears in the printout, and the actual number is shown next to the asterisk.
In addition, all the hierarchies that are to be printed must be sorted in the same way. If you choose asterisk display, you can sort in either ascending or descending order. Ascending order means that the higher nodes of the hierarchy appear above the lower nodes. Descending order means that the lower nodes appear first.
Hierarchy with Asterisk Display Sorted in Ascending Order
Hierarchy with Asterisk Display Sorted in Descending Order
