Schedule Monthly Reports with Dynamic Dates, but also allow Ad-Hoc Running

Post Author: Dan-Mica
CA Forum: General
I am trying to find a way to schedule a report that has an as_of_date, and a start and end date.
When running monthly it will be scheduled to run on the 11th of each month. The as of date will be the 10th of the month. The start date will be the first day of the year and the end date will be the last day of the previous month.
I have written the report using date functions to calculate the correct dates, and this can be scheduled.
Now the users are asking to be able to run ad-hoc versions of the report and choose the dates that they use.
What I don't know how to do is to schedule the job to run monthly as above, but also allow the users to choose the start and end dates and as of dates for the report?
Besides writting two versions of the reports is there another way to do this???
Thanks for the help....

Hi,
U can use Infoset Query for report in HR. T-Codes are SQ03, SQ02 AND SQ01. By SQ03 create user group. then SQ02 -infoset and by SQ01 create reports.
try this. it works.
Regards
Nas

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