Report Painter - Totals are different on face of report & line item details

Question

Hello,
We have a report designed in report painter. Thye lIbrary table is GLPCT.
When we run the report system gives e.g. 100 $ on face of report. However when we double click on that line to get a line item details reoprt the value is different. It is either less or more than the amount diaplayed on initial report.
Please can you suggest what coule be the probable reason for this anamoly.
Thaks & Regards
Shreenath

Answer 1

Hi Sreenath,
when you double-click on a line you are jumping to another report.
The report you are jumping to has either been defined as a linked report by you, or it has been copied from an original SAP-report if you started the creation of your report by copying a standard SAP report.
The sending report tries to pass on all the selections for the cell you double-click to the line-item report. For standard SAP reports it is guaranteed that this should work and the line item report gives the sames results as the report you are calling it from.
For self-defined reports, this may not always work. I have had problems especially when calling line-item reports from sum-lines of my self-defined report. The reason was that the selections could not be passed on properly.
Example:
line 1: selection on account X and profit center A
line 2: selection on account Y and profit center B
line 3: sum of line 1 and line 2
Now, when I double-click on a cell of line 3 and jump to line items, it passes on the selection idependently, i.e.
accounts: X, Y
profit center: A, B
the line item report now gives me all values for all combinations of accounts X and Y and profit centers A and B.
It does not take into account the combined selections in my original report.