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Purpose

The Designing a Report IT process allows business experts to create formatted reports. The BEx Report Designer is available in the Business Explorer for this purpose. The BEx Report Designer is a .NET-based, user-friendly and intuitive design tool for creating formatted reports and presentation-optimized and print-optimized reports.

Use of the Process

This IT process is part of the following IT scenario:

IT Scenario Scenario Variant

Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis

Query, Reporting, and Analysis

Prerequisites

To run this process, you require queries or query views as the data source. You have created the queries in the Designing a Query IT process and the query views in the Performing Ad Hoc Analysis IT process.

Process Flow

The following process runs primarily in the BI Java usage type:

  1. You open the required query or query view.
  2. You create the report.
  3. You save the report.

Result

You have created individually customized reports.