The Section Family Album

These Sections are the ‘building blocks’ of a report:

Report Header Section

Page Header Section

• Columnar Section
  
• Group Section
  
• Tabular Section
  

Page Footer Section

Report Footer Section

The Navigation Assistant

Tracks where you are in the report design process

•   Can be used to return to a previous task
  
•   Can be used to jump ahead to a task
  
•   Can be used to exit out of the Report Design Director
  
•   Can be hidden
  

Report Design Director

• Entry point to the design tool
  
• Allows you to create your report sections up front
  
• Provides a graphical report representation
  
• Only allows one report body section but more can be added later
  

Report Creation

• Report specifications  are the ‘master’ specifications or report template.
• Sections  are the ‘building blocks’ used to create a report.
  
• Versions  are separate from the report specifications. Versions are necessary in processing all reports and can be used to modify the behavior of a report.

Report Planning

Report design consideration

• Column Layout
  
•  Content
  
•  Headers
  
•  Footers
  

 Locations of:

• Page Breaks
  
• Section Breaks
  
• Group Breaks
  

Report Design Tool -1

Functionality: 

•  Design Reports
  
•  View Reports Online
  
•  Run and Print Reports
  
•  Perform Batch Jobs
  
•  Manipulate and  Convert Files

1. define the report format
   
2. define what tables to use (via business view) 
   
3. determine what data is included
   
4. determine how data is sorted
   
5. define totals and subtotals
   
6. create your own logic
   

Business View

A business view is a selection of data items from one or more tables. After the creation of the table, use Business View Design to choose only the data items that are required for our application.

For Creating a business view select the object and click Add

Select the option business view in the screen.

Click Ok

Enter data in the fields

• Object name
  
• Description
  
• Product code
  
• Product system code
  
• Object Use

Click design tools for designing the business view and then click start the business view design aid

Give Object name (table name e g: F5503) in available tables

Drag and drop the available tables in to table joins. Select the fields in the tables. Create a relationship between two tables in the screen, then give table joins (Simple join, Right outer join or left outer join) and save it.

Then click type definition