Topic overview

With the Report run groups application, defined reports can be summarized across organizations. Once defined, report run groups can then be called up by various companies, which complements the Report runs application. In the case of report runs, a wide variety of reports and report definitions from the areas of financial accounting and controlling are combined into one report run, which then creates the reports, e.g. as a background call (Process report run group), thus making it easier to call up recurring reports. However, only in the respectively activated company. With the Report run groups application, the defined report runs can be assigned to groups and called up and processed from every company.

The Report run groups application is used to assign and maintain any number of report runs from any company to report run groups.

Restrictions

The runtime behavior of report runs can have a negative effect on the performance of the system. The background function Process report run group should therefore be used with care.

Application description

The application can be used to create and maintain new report run groups. Report runs can be assigned to the groups.

The report runs are displayed in the company and report run sorting.

Characteristics of report run groups:

• The allocation of the report runs takes place exclusively via a search with the icon Search and add report run (Shift+F11).
• Each report run can only be assigned to each group
• Report run groups assignments can be set to Active” or Inactive in the status field.
• A report run group must be specified explicitly for processing report run
• When calling via the report run group, a separate processing run is created for each report run.
• The report runs can be started with the background application Process report run group. When executing the report run group, you can specify whether inactive report run group assignments are to be
• Identification pane

The identification pane contains the fields that uniquely identify the report run group.

The fields in detail:

• Report run group – report runs from any company can be assigned to a report run group. Each report run can only be assigned to each group once. The runtime behavior of report runs must be taken into account. Report run groups with many report runs (or many defined reports) can have a negative effect on the performance of the system.
• Description – the description serves as an additional distinguishing feature. It can consist of freely selectable text.
• Processing date – selection field for the processing date

Work pane

The report runs are assigned to report run groups in the work pane. The assignment is made using the Find and add report run icon.

The columns of the report run groups assignment in detail:

• Company – the company assigned to the report run group.
• Report run – any number of report runs from any company can be assigned to the group. Each report run can only be assigned to each group once. The runtime behavior of report runs must be considered, as report run groups with many report runs (or many defined reports) can negatively affect system performance.
• Processing date – a processing date can be stored for a report run group assignment. This date is used when the report run is executed. The periods for the report run are determined based on the areas (financial accounting, controlling) of the selection definition and the processing date defined here.
• Status – determination of whether a report run group assignment is taken into account during execution. The following settings are available:
  • Active
  • Inactive

When executing the report run group, you can specify whether inactive report run group assignments are to be processed.

Customizing

No settings need to be made for the Report run groups application in the Customizing application.

Business entities

For the application Report run groups the following report is relevant: Report run groups com.sem.ext.app.fin.reporting.ui.ReportRunGroupMaintenance

Authorizations

Authorizations can be assigned by means of authorization roles as well as by assigning an organization. More about the authorization concept can be found in the technical document Authorizations.

Special capabilities

The Report run groups application has no special capabilities.

Organizational assignments

If the Content-based authorizations function is activated in the Customizing application, a person can only use the Report run groups application if an organization that is linked to at least one of the following organizational structures has been assigned to him or her in the partner master data:

• Financial accounting

Special features

There are no special features for the Report run groups application.

Authorizations for business partners

The Report run groups application is not released for business partners.