topic Report vs Interface in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/report-vs-interface/m-p/2744023#M637777 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>what is the difference between a interface and report? Is that interface is nuthing but a report with shcedule to pick up the file generated by external system with destination defined for it? Or it is some thing else???</P><P></P><P>Cheers </P><P> SDN powered</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:04:58 GMT Former Member 2007-09-14T06:04:58Z Report vs Interface https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/report-vs-interface/m-p/2744023#M637777 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>what is the difference between a interface and report? Is that interface is nuthing but a report with shcedule to pick up the file generated by external system with destination defined for it? Or it is some thing else???</P><P></P><P>Cheers </P><P> SDN powered</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:04:58 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/report-vs-interface/m-p/2744023#M637777 Former Member 2007-09-14T06:04:58Z Re: Report vs Interface https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/report-vs-interface/m-p/2744024#M637778 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You are correct in a way but they are meant to work in different business scenarios.</P><P></P><P>Interfaces are used to pick a file from an ext location / data from sap and put it in SAP / ext location after doing some field mapping.</P><P></P><P>Reports are generaly used to pick up data from the SAP tables as per the parameters on the selection screen and display output in ALVs. Business functionality of reports is for Higher level managment reporting.</P><P></P><P>Hope this solves your query, please mark this question answered and reward appropriate points.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:10:17 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/report-vs-interface/m-p/2744024#M637778 Former Member 2007-09-14T06:10:17Z