Controlling: Report Painter

Dear SAP gurus
I have developed a report writer report which works quite ok. The problem I'm encountering is as follows.
When I run the report with Office Integration activated, the following happens.
1.When Cost Center A is selected from the CCtr structure on the left side, the report brings up the relevant data but calls it Cost Center Group A. The cost center name is also left out.
2.When I run the report on Cost center A , the report brings up the correct data however as Cost Center Group A.
My request is this, how can I ensure that the system brings up data for specific cost center number and name,and not read something else,as this seems to be the problem with Office Integration activated.
Kind regards
Manette Shishonge

Dear Manette,
Thank you for using the SAP SDN Forums,
Please refer to the following notes as I believe they will prove useful
in resolving this issue.
Note: 199787 text variables / new logicIPTION
Note: 360096 No master data text in row textN
I hope this helps resolve the issue for you.
Kind Regards,
Brendan

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Dear Experts,
I need report painter material, if any body have pls farward to me.
my intension to create controlling report with the help of report painter.
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Hello Chinasammy,
Report Painter allows you to create reports using data from SAP application components, which you can adapt to meet your individual requirements.
Many of your reporting requirements can already be met by using the standard reports provided by various SAP application components. If these SAP standard reports do not meet your reporting needs, Report Painter enables you to define your specific reports quickly and easily.
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Direct layout control: The rows and columns are displayed in the report definition as they appear in the final report output, making test runs unnecessary.
=============================================
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Getting Error in Report painter

Dear All ,
i am getting an error after i execute a report in report painter,
Getting the following errors,
Characteristic Ledger does not exist
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Characteristic Ledger does not exist
Message no. GR655
Diagnosis
The characteristic must (message type E) or should (message type W) be addressed in the report definition. This means that a set must/should exist for the characteristic in the definition of the report rows, report columns, or report selection.
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Procedure
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Man

Hi,
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Best regards, Christian

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Regards,
Subhasish

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http://www.virtuosollc.com/PDF/Get_Reporter.pdf
Check url
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/66/bc7d2543c211d182b30000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/5b/d22cee43c611d182b30000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
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check the SAP help ..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/66/bc7d2543c211d182b30000e829fbfe/content.htm
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vinod

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I have one doubt regarding Report Painter Reports like is it possible to create Report painter Reports in two currencies(one is company code currency and another one is USD).
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Regards,
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strange,
1st try this link:
http://10.243.51.62/helpdata/EN/5b/d22dc343c611d182b30000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
and here's another to pdf files
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/EN/Data/htm/english.htm
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currently I am in the process of building a cost center report based on reporting tabel CCSS.
This report should list all primary and secondary costs which are charged to a specific cost center/cost center group .
The cost center or cost center group is given in the general data selection.
All direct primary cost postings are identified in rows like this:
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The controlling department requests to identify all primary cost postings to the given cost center which have been postet to a statistical internal order at the same time. The most part of the primary costs have been directly postet to the cost center in the Additioanal Account Assignments. But some have been posted to the cost center and at the same time to a statistical internal order.
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Dear Elli,
Dear SAP-Gurus,
once again, thank you for your quick reply.
You hints and remarks are very much appeciated.
My problem seems to be slightly more complicated than what I had expected.
All postings to the cost center/cost center group are actual postings. The cost center is the "real" cost element, there are no postings of value type 11 here.
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Situation is like this:
The customer has 3 different company codes which all use different currencies as local currency. They use only one controlling area (Euro).
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200=DKK
300=SEK
The report painter report is for their administrative costs. what has gone wrong if i run the report for example all cost centers in company code 200 and cant see the total sum in DKK. I assume that the problem is because there are postings in different currencies.
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Hi Gokul,
Your approach is correct, if you wish to display the data in another currency
then as you have described you will need to make a copy of the reports / forms (for
example create a custom form based on the current one) using transactions CJE1
and CJE4 then modify these custom forms by adding new columns for the value in
object currency and by deactivating the columns which refer to the values in controlling
area currency. You can create your own transaction codes for calling these custom
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Thanks Abhijit , I can now see my report group at the bottom of the list .I assigned you full points.I posted another question regarding report painter .If you could also give me some guidance on that.When I was creating rows and updating cost elements with account numbers.I set up 3 revenue accounts and then ran the report to see if I get any data for profit centers.I did get data but when I double clicked on one of the account,it displays this messsage.I read the msg. but could not make any sense with it.for example in definning row I put account number from/to 400000- 400000    Explode. and thats a characteristic.
No valid master data for characteristic 'Account Number'
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No valid master data for characteristic 'Account Number'
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Diagnosis
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Example:
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http://www.virtuosollc.com/PDF/Get_Reporter.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/66/bc7d2543c211d182b30000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
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Flexible and simple report definition
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/56/32e339b62b3011e10000000a11402f/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/5b/d22cee43c611d182b30000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
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Hi Gurus,
I have a requirement to add an extra field in Cost center:Act/Plan/Comm CC Cur report.This is otherwise a Z report in report painter with 0% code (T-code : GR55-> Report group->Report).But,when we go to technical information of this report,it has four standard sap programs,which contains code for this selection screen.It does not even have a modification scope.
Selection screen of this report contains following parameters:
Selection values:
Controlling Ar
Fiscal Year
From Period
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Plan Version
Selection Groups:
Cost Center Group
Or value(s)
Cost Element Group
Or value(s)
My requirement is to add one more parameter : Purchase oeder in new block:
Is there any way to achieve it.
Note: Copying the standard progs into custom prog is not working,i already tried that.
Please let me know your suggestions,if any one of you came across such requirement before.it is very impoertant for me.
Thanks in advance,
Meenakshi

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In the output of the report in rows product wise data is displayed and columns are volume, price .. are there.
Out of 8 products displayed in the report for one product volume is being displayed blank. But when I double click it is displaying actual line items,
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this is the prblem
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Col 2   200 USD
Col 3   300 USD
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That is the reason why you wont get this problem for one single company code but get this for multiple company codes.
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We have a report designed using GRR1 - Report Painter. The table used in the Library is GLPCT.
There is a line to display the total of all the values for a particular Profit Center Group where the postings have gone to Dummy P.
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HI,
when a total line contains a "X" it can mean that the values can not be summarized.
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