Report Painter- Restricting Business Transactions

Question

Hi,
I'm creating a report using report painter & would like to prevent Actual Overhead Distribution data (business transaction RKIV) from being reflected in this report. I can add business transactions in the report through Edit -> General Selection data. How do I block a particular business transaction in this report ?
Regards,
Sangeeta

Answer 1

Hi Sanjeeta,
there's several ways to do this:
(1) On the report characteristics window, enter range of values limited the values you want. To add more range, click on the more button, and keep restricting until you have what you want. Then select "no explode".
(2) My recommended way to do it is to create a basic SET via GS01. Table = GLPCT, Field=ACTIV.
On the set header, Select "Suppress". Enter the values that you want included, and leave out the excluded values. You can use range of course!
Then back on the report characteristic screen, enter you SET name and check the flag for entering sets. Select "no explode". With this option, if you ever need to change your Business transaction values, just change the SET and the report will query the updated values.
If you use a report variant to carry out the same solution, just note that everytime you need to change the values, you have to change the variant, transport, and regenerate the report (assuming that you do not change enterprise level variants directly in production)
Hope this helps,
Sam