Defining report parameters for a Style 1 report

You must define parameters for each report. A parameter represents a range of accounts or accounting units and defines the scope of the report. Every report must have two sets of ranges defined: account number ranges and accounting unit ranges. If you define an account range for the row, as you would for a Style 1 report, then the report parameters you define must be for an accounting unit range. Use this procedure to define parameters for a report.

See Changing the focus of a report.

Procedure flow: defining report parameters
  1. Access Report Writer (RW00.1).
  2. Click Levels in the Parameters section on the Style 1 tab.
    Note: If you define ranges for a column on Format (RW20), then those ranges will override the parameter ranges defined on RW00.2. However, parameters are required for Style 1 reports even if you select specific accounts or accounting units when defining the columns. .

    See Company, account, and level overrides.

  3. On Level Range (RW00.2) identify the location, within the company structure, on which you want to report. This subform also lets you select individual reporting options. See About producing the same report for different divisions.
    Note: When defining variable levels for consolidated reports, it is important to request blank through 9s, where the number of 9s is equal to the number of digits or size a company has assigned to the level. The application reads from the lowest level defined for the company and up. If it reads blank through 9s for the lowest level, then it knows it is reporting on everything at that level. This triggers the application to use consolidated totals at the next level. It then reads the next level up and follows the same pattern.

    See Files that Report Writer use.

    Note: To print a consolidated report for multiple companies, specify a company group.