To access the Report Painter you may either:
- < On the SAP Easy Access screen, from the navigation menu, choose SAP menu ®®®
- < In the Command field, enter transaction FGRP
- Report Writer functions can be accessed from within the Report Painter. To access Report Writer, on the SAP Easy Access screen, from the navigation menu, choose SAP menu ® Information systems®Ad hoc reports ®Report painter ®Report Writer.
What Are the Prerequisites?
- < Table: You must know the table you need for the report, as well as the data within the table. Every table has evaluation structures or characteristics and key figures required for a report. Each table’s characteristics and key figures are different. For example, in the special ledger the key figures are based on currency: transaction, local, and group. In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) structure CCSS, the key figures are based on currency and the type of:
- Cost
- Quantity
- Statistical quantity
- Variances
- < Sets: You need to build sets that include the values for the characteristics necessary for your report. Although the values can be directly entered into the report, we recommend you use sets. Sets can be used in multiple reports because when values change, only the sets are changed—not each individual report. As an example, cost center hierarchies (groups) are sets and can be used directly (as with profit center groups). The same holds true for cost elements, activity types, statistical key figures, orders, and business processes (you do not have to create technical sets for these characteristics to use Report Painter).
- < Library: You must create a library for the table or evaluation structure. Most tables supported by Report Painter and Report Writer have one or more libraries you can use. When creating evaluation structures in the Logistics Information System (LIS), the system creates a library beginning with a 2. Because the special ledger is not delivered with the libraries, you need to create a library on each new special ledger table.