SAP Note 17640 - Report Writer reports over several years and periods

Symptom:

If you choose a report for orders or projects (for example, report group 6pp2 or 6P01) with the report parameters,

From fiscal year 1993,
To fiscal year 1995,
From period 001,
To period 006,

the user might get the impression that the report would select the periods 1 to 12 for the fiscal years 1993 to 1994 and the periods 001 to 006 for the fiscal year 1995.
In this case, however, only the periods 001 to 006 are selected for all fiscal years.

Cause and prerequisites

The Report Writer deals separately with the report selections "Fiscal year" and "Period". All records whose for the fields "Fiscal year" and "Period" are within the specified interval are selected from the database.

The reports were defined this way to report with the same report
* over a period,
* over a period interval within a fiscal year,
* over several years (with all periods), or
* over the aggregate period (that is, over all years and all periods)

Solution
As the customers are using the reports since Release 2.0A in basically unchanged form, it is impossible to change their logic.
Sample report 6O06 reports over the duration of an order up to the current point in time.
We recommend to use this report or to adapt this report according to your own requirements.
For projects, you have to create a corresponding report yourself.

Additional key words

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REPORTWRITER, SGRW_AMOUNT, SGRW_RC_STRUCTURE, SGRW_DATA, SGRW_DOCU_CONS_NOTE
SGRW_PS