Enterprise Report Design
Reports (Formatted Reports) for Print and Presentation
The Enterprise Report Design is the reporting component of the Business Explorer. With the Report Designer, it provides a user-friendly desktop tool that you can use to create formatted reports and display them in the Web.
You can also convert the reports into PDF documents to be printed or broadcast.
The purpose of editing business data in the form of reports is to optimize reports such as corporate balance sheets and HR master data sheets for printing and presentation. The focus of the Report Designer is therefore on formatting cells and fields. The row pattern concept permits you to design the layout and to format dynamic sections of the report, independently of the actual amount of data (number of rows).
The data binding is provided by data providers; for reports, these are queries or query views. The Report Designer generates group levels according to the drilldown state of a query or query view. These group levels contain row patterns for the initial report view. You can adjust the layout and formatting of the initial view to your requirements.
Report Structure
A report can include static and dynamic sections. Both the static and the dynamic sections are based on queries or query views as data providers.
The data provider of a static section always contains two structures, one each in the rows and in the columns. You can place the fields wherever you like within a static section. This allows you to freely design the layout of corporate balance sheets, for example.
The data provider of a dynamic section has one or more characteristics in the rows and one structure in the columns. Within a dynamic section, the fields can only be moved from external group levels to internal ones. In dynamic sections, the number of rows varies at runtime, whereas the number of columns is fixed.
Easy Implementation of Formatting and Layout Requirements
The Report Designer offers a number of formatting and layout functions.
● You can use standard formatting functions such as font, bold and italics, background colors, and frames.
● You can include texts, images, and charts in your reports.
● You can change the layout of a report. For example, you can add rows and columns, change the height and width of rows and columns, position fields (such as characteristic values, key figures, filters, variables, user-specific texts) using drag and drop, as well as merge cells.
● You can apply conditional formatting to overwrite the design for specific characteristic values, hierarchy nodes, and so on, specified by the row patterns.
● 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.
● You can define page breaks between report sections or for group level changes.
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