SAP Note 24361 - Report Writer: Actual line item reports

Symptom:

The customer wants to define an actual line item report using the Report Writer. (table COEP / view COVP)

1. Report Writer reports cannot be defined with several text columns.

2. The line item reports defined in the Report Writer have a very long runtime.

Cause and prerequisites

1. The function is not supported.

2. The Report Writer is a very general tool for flexible report creation and of course, there are some special cases that do not run with maximum performance.

Solution

1. Tool KSB1 (actual line item report) is available to display actual line item reports. Customer-specific columns can also be created for this. See Customizing documentation to find out how to define your own display variants for actual line item reports in Cost Center Accounting. For the actual line item reports, you can make a selection from all the fields of COVP (it only contains CO fields!).
Short guideline: KSBK > Cost objects > Display variants > Insert
(as of Release 4.0 the display variant is directly defined in the line item report "Settings -> Display variant -> Current ...")

2. Since they are hard coded, the actual line item reports that are created in this way run with optimized performance.

Additional key words

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REPORTWRITER, SGRW_DOCU_CONS_NOTE, SGRW_LINEITEM
SGRW_OM