topic Re: Dynamic Variant creation in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Dynamic Variant creation

Former Member — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:37:32 GMT

Hi Folks,

I have a requirement where-in i need to schedule report 1 in background from report 2.

Report 1 has a selection screen which contains one select-option and variant for the same is created.

Now i need to schedule report 1 in such a way so that the select-option that is created is automatically changed every time i have scheduled the report.

Please let me know how is it possible to create a variant for report 1 so that the select-option is changed every time i schedule the report.

Please note that report 2 will know the list of values to be used for select-option in report 1 (to be used for job scheduling).

Also if there is any other approach of tackling this problem then let me know.

Thanks,

Imran

Re: Dynamic Variant creation

Former Member — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:44:39 GMT

Hi,

Use the Fm : RS_CREATE_VARIANT to create dynamic variant. and use the newly created variant name while submitting the job.

Thanks ,

Surya

Re: Dynamic Variant creation

former_member435013 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:12:25 GMT

Hi,

With selection variant you can start a report with fixed selection values again.

You need not use them for documentation. You are able to see the used selection screen in a job step.

For time/date selections often selection variables are very useful.

Perhaps in your case it would be a good idea to store the last selection value with each job start in a Z-table.

Regards

Walter