Report-Report Interface 

Use

The report-report interface enables you the flexibility to call a jump target (receiver) online from a BEx query (sender) within or outside of the BI system. Jump targets that have been assigned to a BEx query can be selected in BEx Web applications and in the BEx Analyzer. You access them from the context menu under the Goto function.

See also, Drag&Relate Selection - Report-Report Interface.

Prerequisites

To use the RRI in a BEx Query or BEx Web Application you first have to make the necessary settings with sender-receiver assignment.

See Editing Sender/ Receiver Assignments for the RRI in BW.

Features

Queries, transactions, reports and Web addresses can be jump targets. The parameterization of the target action is taken from the context of the cell that you have jumped from. You can set parameters for calling a BEx Query or a BEx Web Application using input variables which are filled from the selection conditions and the element definitions of the cells highlighted in the sender query.

Process Flow when Calling the RRI:

When it is called, the RRI first collects the following information from the cells of the sender query:

·        the global filter: the rows and columns of the query definition; see also the documentation on query definition.

·        variables

·        the dynamic filter: the values in the navigation block of the query (filter that can be changed by navigation) including hierarchies; see also the documentation on navigation blocks in Web applications – this also applies to functionality in the BEx Analyzer 

·        filters from the selected restricted key figure

·        filter from the selected drilldown characteristics (see also Navigation and Navigation Functions)

The RRI provides this information to the receiver as the valid selections. For more information on how this and what you need to note, see Receiver.

Example

For your cost center report (sender), you want to request master data from an SAP system (receiver). 

For a BEx Query with the up-to-date sales figures for your customer (sender), you want to request up-to-date stock market data on your customer listed on the stock exchange from the Internet.