RICEFW Best Practices - Custom Reports

What are some of the best practices to keep in mind when designing any custom report?

Hello,
The most important thing is the program is assigned to authorizationg group. (From Technical Perspective)
Authorization Group
Authorization group to which the program is assigned.
The assignment of a program to an authorization group plays a role when the system checks whether the user is authorized to:
Execute a program
--> Authorization object S_PROGRAM
Edit a program (-Include) in the ABAP Workbench
--> Authorization object S_DEVELOP
Programs that are not assigned to an authorization group are not protected against display and execution.
Security-related programs should, therefore, always be assigned to an authorization group.
Report RSCSAUTH can also be used to assign programs to authorization groups. This report is documented in detail.
From Functional Perspective
1. Check the requirement is going to meet business requirement
2. Check whether there is any standard reports available to suffice your requirement
3. The time and effort going to take
4. Performance issues
5. Furture changes
6. Scalability
7. Future upgrades
8. Technical and Functional Specifications
9. Data volume
10. Usability (frequency) etc.
Regards,
Ravi

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According to you, what are the best practices in report desing about layout, fonts and colors ?
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Hi,
It all depends that what type of report you are designing and what tool you are using - WebI or Crystal.
And in WebI, if it is cross tab or Tabular report etc.
One most important thing is that what is client requirement. May be client does not like which is best practice.
On the base of my personal experience I will create few demo reports using different options - layout, colors and fonts and show them to client so that they may decide.
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What are some of the best practices to keep in mind when designing any custom report in ECC? I guess it would also help to have an idea of the capabilities and functionality to know what features I can leverage when writing my functional design.

when ever you design a report you need to take care of some basic things, like it should fullfill basic necessasity and if you can add additional informations which can be used by other persons also.
it shuld cover at least 2 process / requirements.
its appearece should be good.
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Hi David,
I would leave your query
"Am I doing something wrong and did I miss something that would prevent this problem?"
to the experts/ gurus out here on this forum.
From my end, you can follow
TOP 10 EXCEL TIPS FOR SUCCESS
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/204c3259-edb2-2b10-4a84-a754c9e1aea8
Please follow the Xcelsius Best Practices at
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a084a11c-6564-2b10-79ac-cc1eb3f017ac
In order to reduce the size of xlf and swf files follow
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Best practice: parameters, reports and control flow

I am developing an application that has a number of different reports, each of which has a combination of similar parameter LOVs.
I defined the LOVs on page 0, with a corresponding DISPLAY hidden field for each one, with each set to conditional display if its DISPLAY=Y. I have a page process on each page with a standard block setting the appropriate _DISPLAY's to Y or N depending on whether they are needed on that page or not.
It is becoming difficult to maintain, and I would prefer to have a single block of code that is called when entering all pages for the first time; where a CASE statement can switch on and off the various LOVs for each page by setting their correspondings _DISPLAY hiddens.
I cannot find a clear answer for this in the forums; and I am not very clear if it is possible, or if it is the best practice.
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Hi Mark,
One of the first points of best practice in Apex is that any non-trivial chunks of PL/SQL coding should be centralised in the database as stored code.
In your case, your generic code would check the page that is being loaded and through a case statement, selectively set values to display the required fields for that page. One problem with this is that you still need to modify this procedure every time you add a new page.
An alternative to this would be to do away with the _DISPLAY items and have the LOV items Condidtion type set to
Current Page is Contained Within Expression 1 (Comma delimited list of pages)
You then only need to list the pages the item is available for as a comma separated list in Expression 1.
You could go even further by storing the display logic for each LOV item in tables in the database and make this completely dynamic, but this may be seen as overkill.
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Query Best Practice for Reports

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Hi Jeff,
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Hi Ramaks, George and other experts,
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It's quite unlikely for my client to develop reports based on Excel or CSV data files. And we need to use features such as hyperlink for documents (which is not available in Rich Client). Based on these considerations, I'm thinking of doing all development in InfoView (both developers and power users). Do you foresee any issue if I go for this approach?
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Can any one point me in the direction of some useful internet resources which discuss commonly used best practices by Oracle reports developers.
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