BEx Report Designer 

Use

The Report Designer is a tool that you use to format and adapt the layout of your business data according to your needs in the form of a report (static or dynamic). You can then display it in the Web. If necessary, you can later convert the report to a PDF document in order to print it and/or distribute it. In this way, you can design the layout of a corporate balance sheet, for example, according to your needs and then print it as a PDF document.

The data connection for the report is provided by queries and query views.  According to the drilldown state of a query or query view, the Report Designer then generates group levels that contain the row pattern for the initial report view. The layout and formatting of the initial view can be adapted to suit the customer's needs and wishes.

Integration

The Report Designer is a standalone desktop application. You can open the Report Designer directly from the start menu or call it in the Web Application Designer using the context menu of the Report Web item.

For more information on reports in Web applications, see Report.

Prerequisites

In order to create a report, a structure must be used in the columns of the underlying query or query view. 

Features

The Report Designer includes the following functions:

●     Standard formatting functions such as font, bold and italics, background colors, frames, and so on are available

●     You can include texts, images and charts in your reports.

●     You can change the layout of a report. The following options are available:

○     Insert row pattern and columns

○     Change height and width of rows and columns

○     You can position individual fields (such as characteristic values, key figures, user-specific texts) with Drag&Drop.

○     Merge Cells

●     You can perform conditional formatting to overwrite the design for specific characteristic values, hierarchy nodes and so on determined by the row pattern.

●     You can display BI hierarchies in your report.

●     You can freely design the header and footer sections of your report, as well as the individual pages.

●     You can create reports that comprise multiple independent sections that have different underlying data providers. These sections are arranged vertically in the report. See also Static and Dynamic Sections in Reportss.

●     You can define page breaks between report sections or for group level changes.

You can call the Report Designer functions with the menu and toolbar and you can implement them using the various areas of the screen.  See also Functions of the Report Designer.