Purpose

To schedule background jobs for Report Painterreports for fixed times, or to release them at regular intervals in the background, you must save the report in a variant and then schedule a background job.

A variant contains the selection criteria for a particular report.

You create a variant for every report that you would like to generate at regular intervals. The system uses these variants to generate the reports using the current data at the established intervals.

In the period-based information system, you must enter a preset start and repeat frequency for each online variant. The system then calls up and releases the report on a periodic basis at predetermined times .

When you plan a background job, enter the name of the variant you chose for the selected report.

Process Flow

To call up report painter reports in the relevant component of Overhead Cost Controlling, choose  Information System Report selection .

Select the desired report from the report tree of the relevant component.

The selection screen described in Executing Report Painter Reports appears. The report parameters activated during report execution will be incorporated in the background processing.

To schedule the report as a background job, enter the report parameters in the selection screen.

Save your entries in a variant. Choose  Goto Variants Save as variant .

a)Enter a name and a description for your variant.

b)Save your variant.

Schedule the background job. Choose  Program Plan job .

a)Choose Start date .

b)Enter a start date and time and, if necessary, activate the Execute job periodically indicator.

c)Save your entries.

See Planning Background Jobs

Choose Steps to access the step list for the background job, to edit the desired steps, or to assign variants to them.

See Editing Step Lists and Assigning Variants

Monitor the processing status of the background job with the job overview functions.

See Checking the Processing Status

Result

The system executes the background job for report at the given time and periodically at the given intervals thereafter.

For more information on batch input folders, see the SAP Libraryunder  BC – Basis Components Kernel C omponents BC - System Service Batch Input Folder (see: Batch Input Folders ).