Report painter variant

Hi all,
I have a report painter program in FICO for which i have created a variant TEST. When i give this TEST as input to VARID table variant name i am getting a program name which is not the name of the report painter program. Can anyone tell me if the report painter program has some other name as well or how is the program name generated for this variant.
Regards,
Sowmya.

Hi
1. Go to GRR3 and identify the variable used in your report
2. Go to GS12 / GS13 and check the variable definition
May be some default value is specified there / or it is formula variable... Double click on the formula variable and you can check how it is defined...
For the variable related to PERIOD - You need to specify a different variable for the From & To and specify the default value as 1 and 16
Br, Ajay M

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Report painter variants/ layouts

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

My users are very lazy and want me to do the columns changes automatically. An example: the supervisors work with much money and the want to see the numbers in tousands only. The basic users need to see the whole numbers. This is the simplified problem. And I don´t want to copy each RP report 5-10 times. And yes, I am an ABAPer, and if it would not be so time demanding requirement I would program the ALV reports instead of these RP.
New idea: could you extract the RP report code out of the generated report to reuse it in the standard ALV report?
Thank you for your effort, Otto

Printing Selection Variant in Report Painter

Hi, I am using ECC 5. There is a requirement for printing the selection variant in Report Painter (GR55) Reports. Presently there is a provision to print selection fields and values.
Is any way, I can print a Selection Variant and Name in Report Painter? I understood that the information is stored in Table VARIT. This table contains Lang., Report Name, Variant and Short text. I do not know how to get this info in Report screen.
Can any one help?
Advance Thanks
Venkat

Hi,Thanks for your reply. Let me explain.
When using Transaction Code GR55, enter Report Group, Execute. This will open a Report Paramenter screen. In this screen, if you select Goto --> Variant --> Get OR Get Variant icon, this will show the available selection variants. Select any one of them and run report.
In report it will pick-up the each selection paramater field and value NOT a variant.
Is any way to get the variant also printed in report?
Hope this will is clear.
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Report Painter problem with empty selection variant

Hello,
I use the cost center selection variant for the column definition in Report Painter as characteristic value. This selection variant get only the cost centers which are valid from 1.1.2003 to 31.12.2004. The column of the report created by Report Painter which uses this selection variant display value without taking into account limitations follow from this selection variant. I expect value zero for year fiscal year 2007 in this column, because the cost centers are invalid in 2007 year but the report displays different value. The problem appeared after upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0.
Best Regards
ZD

My problem with Report Painter occurred when I was creating my own report based on 1VK library.
In my example I used in the column definition characteristic Cost
Center, which is determined by selection variant, and Basic Key Figure
equal SWKG-Costs. For system date (18.07.2007) there are no valid
master data for the characteristic Cost Center but when I execute
report for fiscal year 2007 the column display no-zero value without
taking into account value of Characteristic Cost Center. I expected
zero value in this column because there are no postings for Cost
Centers (no valid cost centers were selected) in financial year 2007.
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Selection variant for a report painter

Hi,
I created a report painter report. I want to create a default selection variant for a specific user. For example, I want user GIRARDJU to have company code=ADM, period 6 to period 13. I tried to create a variant and call it U_GIRARDJU but it doesn't work like it does for the standard SAP reports...
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot,
Julien

Hi,
First go to the report you have created.
Then save the selection criteria you want & give an appropriate name to your variant (eg: /INOKA).
When you execute the report next time, this variant will be there, & by double clicking it you'll get the saved information.
Best regards,
Inoka.

Report painter layout variants

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

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

Report Painter: Create variant for specific report created

Hello,
My knowledge in very weak in report painter.
In the initial screen of a report created to analyse the budget by internal order whe have the year and the period of analysis.
By default, for every user the year is 2010 and the period of analysis is from month 1 to month 1.
My question, and I am sorry to ask such a simple question, is how can we change this initial screen?
The aim is to have for every user, when connecting the report, by default the year 2011 and the period of analysis from month 1 to month 16?
Thank you.
Best Regards.
R.

Hi
1. Go to GRR3 and identify the variable used in your report
2. Go to GS12 / GS13 and check the variable definition
May be some default value is specified there / or it is formula variable... Double click on the formula variable and you can check how it is defined...
For the variable related to PERIOD - You need to specify a different variable for the From & To and specify the default value as 1 and 16
Br, Ajay M

Index Currency in Report Painter

Hi,
Is there any way I could include the Index Currency as a key figure for my Report Painter reports?

Hi,
Before running the repport go to envoriment / option and expert mode.
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Report Painter- Restricting Business Transactions

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

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.
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Problem in report painter

We cloned the program of KSB1 transaction code and created a new t.code ZKBS1 to include some additional fields.
I attached this t.code in report group as a receiver report.
After executing the report painter report, in order to explode one cell value I have chosen ZKSB1 report which I have added to the report group. I am getting the following error
Transaction code not defined
Message no. KB 496
Diagnosis
You have called up the program without defining a corresponding transaction code. This is probably because variant maintenance has been called up using se38. It is not possible to create variants using this transaction.
I have checked whether any authorisation issues are there / any problem in new ABAP program associated with ZKSB1 and there is no problem with both.
I had a similar issue sometime back and when I regenerated the report group it worked fine. But now even after regenerating, it is not working.
Has anyone encountered this problem? Any solution?

Hi
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Report Painter: How to find report group of a report?

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I want to know if are possible to consult the report group a report is in.
P.S. Sorry my english, points will be awarded for good answers.
Regards,
Fabio Gross
Edited by: GrossFabio on Feb 8, 2011 6:39 PM

Thanks to all for the help, I solved my problem looking into older topics from the forum.
To all who may have the same problem:
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3 - In the parameters table you will type:
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Regards,
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Report Painter Spool

Hi,
We are facing problem with Report Painter program. we developed one report in report painter program in CO. we are taking the report painter date into customised program and we are doing some calculations. From KE30 Transcation we can execute the report painter program. We are doing the BDC for that transaction, storing the final data into flat file and downloading that file into our customised program. But for KE30 Transaction dependency is there.
whenever we are executing that transction for the first time we have to enter some details. To remove that Dependecy we are trying with spool. When we execute the report painter program through SE38 output is going to spool. In spool the page width for that program is 85. We want it upto 100 characters width. We changed settings in spool but we are not getting the solution. Is there any other way to increase the spool width for report painter program? is Page width for report painter program fixed?
Please help me in this regard?
Ur quick response is appreciated
Thanks in advance
Ganga Bhavani. B

Hi All,
1.The page width is set with KE30 -> report -> print setup ->
drill down + detail -> maintain header -> edit -> page width
This will be saved with the report structure.
2. Variants and variant groups let you execute and save or print reports
in the background at pre-specified times.
Please see transaction code KE3R/Application Help for additional details
here.
If you have further queries, you may reach me over
Dr. Ravi Surya Subrahmanyam, PhD Finance,
SAP FICO Consultant,
Answerthink (India) Limited
Global Delivery Center
Hyderabad, India
Phone :91 9848550024
Email : [email protected]

Report Painter- How to make cost center report for Jun07-Jul08 ?

Hi Experts,
I need to make a P&L (Actual/ Plan) report for Jun 07 - Jul 08 by using Report Painter, but I'm having difficulty to make column for the next year period (2008) and some other things.
We are using K4 Fiscal Year Variant in ECC 6.0.
The layout is somehow like this:
Header : Cost Center
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Body:
Cost Element     |   Total Actual   |   Total Plan | Actual June | Plan June .................Actual July | Plan July
xxxx
xxxx
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xxxx
Account Group (total)
Grand Total
How to:
a. make the header "June 2007 to July 2008" ?
b. make the selection screen to provide parameter for June 2007 to July 2008? (e.g.: period 6 fiscal year 2007 to period 7 fiscal year 2008)
c. provide layout (rows and columns) as described above? it should provide detail cost elements and also calculate it as the total per account group, then finally the Grand Total for all of account groups.
Thank you before,
-=Meila.S=-

Hi,
1. Put Year and Month as your General Selection parameters
2. In the label of the fields, if you put the parameter name with & before, it will display the value
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Regards,
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Report Painter for B/S , P&L statements

Hii gurus
this is ramki...
Plssss help me in the making of Report painter for Balance Sheet and Profit And Loss Statements , as of now i didn't did Report Painter .
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Hi
i am sending you a sample of how to createa report in report painter follow it,
Main Steps in Creating a Report Using Report Painter
The illustration below shows the main steps in creating a report with Report Painter:
In this section, you learn how to create a Profit Center Accounting (PCA) report with Report Painter.
For these sample reports, you should focus on the tables that correspond to the SAP application areas with which you are working. The examples shown in this section have been created in Release 4.6C.
Sample Report for Gross Profit Margin
Bungee Corporation wants to use Report Painter to create a gross margin report. This Profit Center Accounting report uses data table GLPCT. The desired PCA report displays the gross margin for each profit center.
Below is an illustration of the completed gross margin report.
Prerequisites to Creating a Report with Report Painter
Before you can create a report with Report Painter, you need to:
     Determine the table
     Find the library
     Create sets
     Create variables
The following sections explain these prerequisites.
Determine the Table
Before you can start creating the report, you must decide on the table you need to use. In this example, we use table GLPCT in Profit Center Accounting.
Find the Library
Determine the library you want to use for the desired table.
If you need to create a library, on the SAP Easy Access screen, either:
     From the navigation menu, choose SAP menu → Information systems → Ad hoc reports → Report painter → Report Writer → Library → Create.
     In the Command field, enter transaction GR21 and choose .
In our example, we use existing library 8A2 for creating a report.
Create Sets
Create the required sets for your report. To create a set, on the SAP Easy Access screen, either:
     From the navigation menu, choose SAP menu → Information systems → Ad hoc reports → Report painter → Report Writer → Set → Create.
     In the Command field, enter transaction GS01 and choose .
Note that this procedure is not necessary for creating the report given in the example that follows.
Create Variables
Create any variables for the fields that must be entered before the report is executed. To create a variable, on the SAP Easy Access screen, either:
     From the navigation menu, choose SAP menu → Information systems → Ad hoc reports → Report painter → Report Writer → Variable → Create.
     In the Command field, enter transaction GS11 and choose .
Note that this procedure is not necessary for the sample report in the next section.
Creating a Report with Report Painter
When you are ready to create the report using Report Painter, use the following steps.
Example Task: Creating a report using Report Painter
1.     On the SAP Easy Access screen, either:
o     From the navigation menu, choose: SAP menu → Information systems → Ad hoc reports → Report painter → Report → Create.
o     In the Command field, enter transaction GRR1 and choose .
2.     On the Report Painter: Create Report screen:
a.     In Library, enter the name of the library to be used for the report (for this example, 8A2).
b.     In the Report, enter a name for your report and a short text description.
c.     Choose Create.
1.
To help you better understand how to create a report in Report Painter, the next procedures explain the varying substeps. You can either:
o     Define the rows (or rows with a formula)
o     Define the columns (or columns with a formula)
o     Define the general data selection
Define Rows
Example Task: Defining rows (including defining a row with a formula)
To start defining the rows, on the Report Painter: Create Report screen, double click on Row
On the Element definition: Row1 dialog box:
a.     To include characteristics in the first row of the report, select the desired characteristics in the Available characteristics frame (for example, Account number)
b.     Use to transfer the chosen characteristic to the Selected characteristics frame.
c.     In From, enter the account number(s) you want to include in the row definition. Either enter to and from values or a group set (for example, the value 800000).
d.     To enter the row heading, choose
On the Text maintenance dialog box:
a.     In Short, enter the desired short text (for example, Revenue).
b.     To copy the short text into the Medium and Long text fields, choose Copy short text.
c.     To continue, choose
On the Element definition: Row1 dialog box:
a.     To check if the selection is correct, choose Check.
b.     To transfer the selection to the row 1 definition, choose Confirm.
You have now defined the first row.
To define the second row for costs, on the Report Painter: Create Report screen, double-click on Row 2.
On the Select element type dialog box:
a.     Select Characteristics.
b.     Choose
On the Element definition Row 2 dialog box:
a.     To include characteristics in the second row of the report, select the desired characteristics in the Available characteristics frame (for example, Account number)
b.     Use to transfer the chosen characteristic to the Selected characteristics frame.
c.     In From and To, enter the account number(s) you want to include in the row definition (for example, 400000 and 490000).
d.     To enter the row heading, choose
On the Text maintenance dialog box:
a.     In Short, enter the desired short text (for example, Costs).
b.     Choose Copy short text to copy the short text into the Medium and Long text fields.
c.     To continue, choose
On the Report Painter: Create Report screen:
a.     You can now choose to add further rows with other required characteristics. In this example, you can create a formula in the third row.
b.     Double-click on Row 3.
On the Select element type screen:
                   a. Select Formula as the row element type.
                   b. Choose
On the Enter Formula screen:
a.     Enter the formula for Row 3. You can either type it in or use your mouse and the formula components buttons. If you type the formula, do not forget the spaces. In this example, Y001 and Y002 represent Revenue and Costs respectively.
b.     To check the correctness of the formula, choose Check.
c.     Choose
On the resulting Text maintenance dialog box:
a.     In Short field, enter the text for the formula field (for example, Gross Marg).
b.     In Medium and Long fields, enter the required text (for example, Gross Margin).
c.     Choose .
You have now defined three rows (Revenue, Costs, and Gross Margin).
Define Columns
Example Task: Defining columns
On the Report Painter: Create Report screen, double-click on the first column, Column 1.
On the Select Element Type (not shown) dialog box:
a.     Select Key Figure with characteristics.
b.     Choose .
On the Element definition: Column 1 dialog box:
c.     In the Basic Key figure field, use the dropdown to select Amount in company code curr.
d.     In the Available Characteristics frame, select the desired characteristic for column 1 (for example, Fiscal Year).
If you want to be prompted for the fiscal year at the time of running the report, you must make this a variable instead of a value.
e.     Choose to move the desired characteristic to the selected characteristics frame (for example, Fiscal year).
f.     Place your cursor in the From value field and select the checkbox to the left under (variable on/off).
g.     To view the possible entries for the From field, choose .
h.     From the resulting selection dialog box:
     Select a variable from the list of available variables (for example, CYear).
     Choose .
i.     On the Element definition dialog box, choose .
j.     On the resulting Text maintenance dialog box:
     In Short, enter a text for the column header (for example, Curr Year).
     To copy the short text to Medium and Long text fields, choose the Copy short text button.
     Choose .
Now you have defined the column 1 for your report.
k.     Back on the Element definition dialog box, choose Confirm.
On the Report Painter: Create Report screen, define column 2 and all other columns you choose to define. You can define these columns either by:
o     Repeating steps for column 1
o     Copying columns
o     Entering a formula that calculates the difference between columns (for example, between Current Year and Prior Year [variable is Pyear] in a column called Variance)
Adding a column or formula is similar to adding a row formula. After defining the rows and the columns, the screen would appear as follows.
General Data Selection
After you define the rows and columns, define the general data selection screen for the report.
Example Task: Defining the general data selection screen for the report
1.     On the Report Painter: Create Report screen, from the menu bar, choose Edit → General data selection.
2.     On the Element definition: General data selection screen:
a.     From the Available characteristics frame, select the fields to add to the general data selection as shown.
b.     Choose to move the selections into the Selected characteristics frame.
c.     Enter the values for each field. (For example, the standard ledger for PCA is 8A to 8E and the U.S. company code in IDES is 3000. This example is a year-to-date report, so all 12 periods are in the range. The standard Version in PCA is 0, the Record type for actual dollars is 0, and CO is 2000).
d.     To check the selections, choose Check.
e.     To create the definition for the general data selection for the report, choose Confirm.
      3.   On the Report Painter: Change Report screen:
a.     To save the report, choose
To include the report into a report group, choose Environment → Assign report group.
      1.     On the Insert Report in Report Group dialog box:
a.     In Report group, enter a report group name (for example, ZTGR).
b.     Choose .
2.     On the Create report group dialog box, choose Yes to create and assign to a new report group.
Display and Execute the Report
Example Task: Displaying the report you created in the previous steps
1.     On the SAP Easy Access screen, either:
o     From the navigation menu, choose: SAP menu → Information systems → Ad hoc reports → Report painter → Report → Display.
o     In the Command field, enter transaction GRR3 and choose .
2.     On the Report Painter: Display Report screen:
a.     Double-click on your report.
b.     Review the report display.
c.     To execute the report, from the application toolbar, choose execute.
On the Selection screen:
a.     Enter the variables used to execute the report (for example, Current Year 2000 and Last Fiscal Year as 1999).
b.     On the application toolbar, choose execute.
The report appears. You have successfully created a report in Report Painter.
You can also execute the report through the report group (for example, ZTGR).
1.     On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose SAP menu → Information systems → Ad hoc reports → Report Painter → Report Writer → Report group → Execute or in the Command field, enter transaction GR55 and choose
2.     On the Execute Report Group: Initial Screen:
o     In Report Group, use to select a report group.
o     Choose .
3.     On the next screen, enter appropriate values and choose .
4.     On the next screen, from the menu bar, choose:
o     Settings → Column attributes to change the column attributes such as changing the column width, setting the scaling factor, and setting decimal place numbering for number display.
o     Settings → Summation levels to specify a range of summation levels for which totals will display.
o     Settings → Print page format to change the layout of the report output.
5.     To transfer the report to Microsoft Excel or Lotus 123, from the application toolbar, choose .
6.     On the Options dialog box, select the radio button of your choice and choose . Note that for the report to open in Microsoft Excel or Lotus 123, you need to have these applications installed on your PC.
7.     To get back to the original display of the report, select Inactive on the Options dialog box.
Understanding the Report List
After executing a Report Painter report, several additional functions can be applied to the output to make your reports as meaningful as possible. You can:
     Sort on each column.
     Highlight rows that meet the threshold criteria, for example any amount greater than 6,000.
     Drill down from any line item. Drilling down you can access ABAP programs, transaction codes, SAP Queries, drilldown reports, or other Report Painter and Report Writer reports.
     Launch SAP Graphics.
     Send the report through SAP mail.
     Save as an extract to be brought up later.
     Expand and collapse rows.
     Change the layout settings.
     Display the report in Microsoft Excel with office integration.
hope this gives you an idea, and send me an email to [email protected] i will send you a doc on it,
if this was helpful then assign points ..
regards
Jay

Issue with Report painter report

Hi Gurus
I need your help with an issue with one of our report painter reports. I have created a new report with Fiscal Year, Ledger, Company code, and Account number range in General data selection. The report row has field Segment and each period corresponds to one period of the fscal year. In here, I have selected Period and Record type 0 as characteristics. The basic key figure is KSL for second currency.
I am able to save the report but when I execute it, I get the error that
*Characteristic GJAHR cannot be combined with key figures*
Can someone please help me as why I am getting this error?
I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Shalu

Hi
I think you have to rechek the genral data selection setting , related to fiscal year.
had u defaulted the fiscal year or used variant for fiscal year
Thanks
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