Definition

The reference version of a report is the version that is used during the selection of transaction data to determine the (version-dependent) grouping of consolidation units in a consolidation group.

It is one of the characteristics that are used in drilldown reporting for selecting transaction data for a consolidation group.

Use

You use the reference version to explicitly specify in drilldown reporting the parameters for drilling into the consolidation units of a consolidation group.

If no reference version is specified, then the characteristic consolidation version is used for hierarchy drilling and attribute determination. In this case, the consolidation version must be unambiguously specified for each cell (or row or column) of the report. Moreover, the consolidation version always determines the version of the transaction data to be selected. If a consolidation version is specified in addition to the reference version, the consolidation version determines the version that is used for reading transaction data.

Example

Version-based Restatement using Reporting

You define a form with one coordinate as follows:

The corresponding report shows transaction data for the two consolidation versions in the two columns. However, the report uses the composition of the consolidation group as the basis for the reference version. If you specify the consolidation version of the first column (100) as the reference period, reporting then re-interprets the data of the second column. This means that the data of the second column is selected for consolidation version 200. However, this is based on the composition of the consolidation group according to consolidation version 100 (the reference version). This enables the report to show a drilldown on the characteristic consolidation group that shows a hierarchy for consolidation version 100.