Time Estimate for creating a new Discoverer Report

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to estimate time required to create a new Discoverer Report?
It would be great if anyone give me a template / tool for calculating the time estimate..I know, its a manager's job, but I am supposed to give this time estimate for a report.
The requirement is, to convert Apps standard Invoice Aging Report into Discoverer Report. As far as I know, this is much complex report in Apps.
Thanks!
Yogini

Hi Yogini,
I’ve just looked at the ‘Invoice Aging Report’, and it shouldn’t be too difficult to convert into a Discoverer Report.
The time scales really depend on the following:
-whether the Discoverer Report has been fully spec’d out by the customer.
Sometimes it’s not a matter of just copying a standard Apps report into Discoverer, as they can always be improved on. It’s best to get the customer to specify exactly what they want on paper first, such as any additional columns, sorts, what parameters etc. Creating a ‘Discoverer Business Requirement Form’ could come in handy, to capture all of this information from the customer, hopefully avoiding them giving you the run around.
-if the EUL has all the required items for the report
An item required in the report might not exist in the EUL. If this is the case, do you need to go through Change Control to get it put in? How long would this take?
-how quickly can get the report into a TEST instance for the customer to test before signing off the change to go in LIVE. Sometimes Customers can hold this process up, so give yourself a couple of days.
So the time you give really depends on how comfortable you feel with the module (AP) and the actual creation of Discoverer Reports. It obviously also depends on your business processes which can always slow things down.
As for the report, I’ve actually made a report very similar for the Transactions Age Debt (AR). It could help you a bit.
To calculate the Days Overdue you could use a Calculation below:
SYSDATE-Payment Schedules.Due Date
To calculate the 1 - 30 Days you could use a Calculation with a case statement below.
CASE WHEN Days Overdue BETWEEN 0 AND 30 THEN Balance Due ELSE TO_NUMBER(NULL) END
Otherwise no Time Estimated Calculation form… But hope the info will help.
Cheers,
Lance

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