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Introduction

• A report is a presentation of data in an organized structure. Many database management systems include a report writer that enables you to design and generate reports. SAP applications support report creation.
• A classical report is created by using the output data in the WRITE statement inside a loop. They do not contain any sub-reports. SAP also provides some standard reports such as RSCLTCOP that is used to copy tables across clients and RSPARAM that is used to display instance parameters.
• These reports consist of only one screen as an output. We can use various events such as INITIALIZATON & TOP-OF-PAGE to create a classical report, and each event has its own importance during the creation of a classical report. Each of these events is associated to a specific user action and is triggered only when the user performs that action.

Following is a table describing the events and descriptions −

Example

Let's create a classical report. We will display the information stored in the standard database MARA (contains general material data) by using a sequence of statements in ABAP editor.

REPORT ZREPORT2 

LINE-SIZE 75 

LINE-COUNT 30(3) 

NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING. 

Tables: MARA. 

TYPES: Begin of itab, 

MATNR TYPE MARA-MATNR, 

MBRSH TYPE MARA-MBRSH, 

MEINS TYPE MARA-MEINS, 

MTART TYPE MARA-MTART, 

End of itab. 

DATA: wa_ma TYPE itab,

      it_ma TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF itab.

        

SELECT-OPTIONS: MATS FOR MARA-MATNR OBLIGATORY. 

INITIALIZATION. 

MATS-LOW = '1'. 

MATS-HIGH = '500'. 

APPEND MATS. 

AT SELECTION-SCREEN. .

IF MATS-LOW = ' '. 

MESSAGE I000(ZKMESSAGE). 

ELSEIF MATS-HIGH = ' '. 

MESSAGE I001(ZKMESSAGE). 

ENDIF. 

TOP-OF-PAGE. 

WRITE:/ 'CLASSICAL REPORT CONTAINING GENERAL MATERIAL DATA  

FROM THE TABLE MARA' COLOR 7. 

ULINE. 

WRITE:/ 'MATERIAL' COLOR 1, 

24 'INDUSTRY' COLOR 2, 

38 'UNITS' COLOR 3, 

53 'MATERIAL TYPE' COLOR 4. 

ULINE. 

END-OF-PAGE. 

START-OF-SELECTION. 

SELECT MATNR MBRSH MEINS MTART FROM MARA  

INTO TABLE it_ma WHERE MATNR IN MATS. 

LOOP AT it_ma into wa_ma. 

WRITE:/  wa_ma-MATNR, 

25 wa_ma-MBRSH, 

40 wa_ma-MEINS, 

55 wa_ma-MTART. 

ENDLOOP. 

END-OF-SELECTION. 

ULINE. 

WRITE:/ 'CLASSICAL REPORT HAS BEEN CREATED' COLOR 7.

ULINE. 

SKIP. 

The above code produces the following output containing the general material data from the standard table MARA −