Report painter layout variants

Question

Dear sirs,
a colleague of mine needs your experience. Our customer needs us to create some Report Painter reports with the possibility to change the layout. Is this/ something like this possible?
An example would be to pick up the columns or to change number format: see numbers in units or tousands of units. Something like ALV variants/ layout?
Any customizing option or workaround would help, thanks Otto

Answer 1

You can pretty much do most of what your colleague is enquiring about.
1. Create a report library GR21
     -   Table name: E.g GLPCT.  You can copy an existing library and modify.
     -   Description: E.g  Branches P& L Reports
     -  Check off the characteristics he wants
     -  Check off  key figures
     -  Check off basic key figures.
Define sets and variables if need to with t-codes GS01 and GS11 respectively.
2. Create a report group GR51
3. Create report either using GRR1 or GR31
   - Enter the library you created above
   - Enter report name
   - You can copy from an existing report and make changes to your likeness
   - Define you general data selection
   - Element definition which is the columns and rows
   -  Click on Extras and define report headers
  - Click on Formatting to format columns and rows
4. Assign report to report group created earlier on.
The above guidelines are the basics on how to proceed.
Refer back for any further clarifications.
Elias
Edited by: Elias Akorli on Nov 24, 2009 2:16 PM