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Creating or Copying a Report

  1. To create a report with Report Painteror Report Writer, go to the relevant CO application component and choose:

      Information System   Tools   ReportPainter   Re port   Create.  

  2. You should observe Sap’s standard naming conventions when creating new objects (see: Standard Naming Procedure for Information System Objects ). Use a non-numerical entry as the first character of the object name.

  3. To generate a report by changing a standard report, enter a standard report as a model.

    Note Note

    You can also produce a copy of the standard report with Report Painter as follows:

    Choose   Report   Display/Change.  

    On the initial screen, choose   Group   Copy.  

    In the Copy dialog box, enter the library, the name of the standard report and the copy. You can assign the new report to the same library or a different library. The copy can then be modified to suit your requirements.

    Then modify the copy to meet your requirements.

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Creating Report Groups

Assign your report to a report group and generate the report group (see: Report Groups ). Only then can you execute the report.

Note Note

If you attempt to start a report without having generated a report group first, a dialog box appears to ask whether you would like to insert the report in a report group. The given report group is created as new, if required, and then generated automatically.

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Transporting Reports

  1. If you have implemented a SAP system with more than one client, you should transport the reports in all relevant clients. To do so, choose:

      Information System   Tools   Report Painter   Utilities   Transport   Reports/Report Groups   Copy from client  

  2. Enter the new report groups that you wish to copy from a given client to your target client.