topic Re: Reports in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Reports

Former Member — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:31:47 GMT

What are reports in ABAP and its importance?

thanks.

Re: Reports

RichHeilman — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:34:08 GMT

Reports are report programs which usually give the user some sort of selection screen to enter selection values and the user executes the query, then the output is display in a list display or sometimes in an ALV grid display. THis is how the users will get data from the system to analyze the business.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: Reports

Former Member — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:35:52 GMT

Hi,

reports in abap are custom programs, made by abap developers.

SAP offers a wide range of standard reports (programs) like for example,

material's availability.

Sometimes, some enterprises need specific information from SAP system, that is not offered by SAP Standard, so these enterprises make there own reports in SAP system (using ABAP language) to performe/extract/display some specific action/behavior .

Regards,

Pedro

Re: Reports

Former Member — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:44:08 GMT

Hi Khan,

Report is basically a program which extracts the data from the database tables based on some inputs and gives the output as a list.

Report are classified as Classical Reports, Interactive Reports and ALV Report.

Classical Report is a normal report which just displays the output.User cannot interact with that report.

Interactive Report is nothing but, a user can interacte with the report.After a basic list is displayed, user can click on some field on the list which generates a secondary list giving the necessary information relevant to that field.

ALV Report is to provide users with a consistent, user friendly and functional method of manipulating the data, which appears on report lists. ALV provides more advantages than the normal report.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Srinivas

Re: Reports

Former Member — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:48:32 GMT

hi khan,

Report : The program that is written to retrieve data from the database table and display it is called a report and the data that is displayed on the screen when the program is running is called a list.

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Arun.

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Re: Reports

Former Member — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:22:00 GMT

Hi,

In ABAP there are 2 type of reports: 1. Classical report, 2. Interactive report.

for more information check the following link:

http://www.sapbrain.com

Regards,

Bhaskar