Formatting BEx report through Macros

Hi Experts,
We have a BEx report in BW 3.5 version. We have tried all sorts of formating at BEx level but are not able match the requirement. However we are able to match the requirement through Macros.
I wanted to know whether we can incorporate the Macros code permanently so that whenever we run the report, we get the formatted output through the Macros code. The functionality should be able to handle data changes in the report too.
Please suggest.
Regards and Thanks,
Vivek Das Gupta

Hi,
Crystal Reports has a hierarchical reporting functionality.
see my blog on this :
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/07/businessobjects-and-sap-part-i
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/19/businessobjects-and-sap-part-2
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/27/businessobjects-and-sap-part-3
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/03/23/businessobjects-and-sap-part-4
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/03/24/businessobjects-and-sap-part-5
the text variables would not come clean to Crystal Reports and you would have to create the column headings in Crystal Reports - which can be done very easily.
hope this helps
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