Report Painter: CO area must be specified

Dear Gurus,
I am new to Report Painter, now I want to create a new report for Actual expanses and Budget expanses. But after I create my variable and my Row and Column, it come out error 'CO area must be specified --> Add in general data selections or rows/column' when I want to save it.
Any idea what had I missed out ?
Can you please provided my any study material or step by step guide? I was quite confusing regarding this report painter.
Thank you very much.
Warm regards

Hi,
Perameters in General Data Selection apply to the entire repost (every column and row). Since the four columns of your report are having different period and possibly different FY, you can not put these two parameters in General Data Selection. As my previous posting explained, in addition of standard variable &1PERIV and 1CGJAHE, you will need to define 3 more variables for period FY respectively:
Period Variable 1 - ZPERI2 - Formula: IF '&1PERIV' < 12 THEN '&1PERIV' + 1 ELSE 1
Period Variable 2 - ZPERI3 - Formula: IF '&ZPERI2' < 12 THEN '&ZPERI2' + 1 ELSE 1
Period Variable 3 - ZPERI4 - Formula: IF '&ZPERI3' < 12 THEN '&ZPERI3' + 1 ELSE 1
FY Variable 1 - ZGJAHR2 - Formula: IF '&1PERIV' < 12 THEN '&CGJAHE' ELSE '&CGJAHE' + 1
FY Variable 2 - ZGJAHR3 - Formula: IF '&1PERIV' < 11 THEN '&CGJAHE' ELSE '&CGJAHE' + 1
FY Variable 3 - ZGJAHR4 - Formula: IF '&1PERIV' < 10 THEN '&CGJAHE' ELSE '&CGJAHE' + 1
You then use variable 1PERIV and 1CGJAHE for column 1, ZPERI2 and ZGJAHR2 for column 2, ZPERI3 and ZGJAHR3 for column 3, and ZPERI4 and ZGJAHR4 for column 4.
Regards,
Ming

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