Report Painter vs FM Drilldown Reports

Hello Experts:
We are upgrading from Former Budgeting to BCS and are attempting to use the report painter tool for our reports.  I have not used the report painter tool much although it is similar to the FM Drilldown Reporting functionality.  My question is:
With FM Drilldown Reporting, characteristic FM acct asst was available as a row choice and included fund, funds center, and commitment item.  It appears with report painter that each of these is a separate characteristic which creates three lines on the report instead of one.
Example:
FM Drilldown Reports
Fund/Funds Center/Comm Item    $$$
Report Painter
Commitment Item  $$$
Funds Center       $$$$
Fund                     $$$$$
I know that we could use Fund and/or Funds Center as variations but we want them to appear on a line in the report so that when the report is downloaded, the information appears as in my Drilldown report example.   Is there a way to create a characteristic that includes all three FM assignments?  Or some other method to accomplish this?

Hi Everyone:
I am still fighting with Report Painter.  I am now trying to figure out how to pull Period in as a column characteristic even though I have it as a characteristic in the General Data Selection.  I'm using Library 4FM for budget reporting.  My end users want to be able to execute the report by period but for certain columns of the report be able to see all periods displayed.  Example:
Adjusted Budget - All Periods
Commitments - Period from selection screen
Expenses - Period from selection screen
I do not understand the use of the GRCT transaction.  Are there any links that might provide detailed instructions for it's use?
I would appreciate any assistance/guidance you can provide.

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