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Report vs Interface

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‎2007 Sep 14 7:04 AM

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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???

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‎2007 Sep 14 7:10 AM

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You are correct in a way but they are meant to work in different business scenarios.

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.

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.

Hope this solves your query, please mark this question answered and reward appropriate points.

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