SAP Basis Notes: Displaying and Printing Report Lists in sap

Procedure

Displaying a List

To display a list:

Execute the report from your task or from the System menu.

See Executing a Report.

In the selection criteria screen, enter the selection criteria in the appropriate input fields.

See Selection Criteria.

To enter your selection criteria using a variant, you can select a variant from the dropdown list of possible entries.

See Displaying Available Report Variants.

From the selection criteria screen, choose Program

Execute.

The list appears. A sample list is shown here:

If your list is large, the SAP System takes longer to process all the data. If the SAP System cannot process all the data, a message indicating processing limitations appears in the status bar. In that case, you must:

Execute the report with a variant, or

Enter more selection criteria values, or

Print the list using background processing

Printing a List

To print a list:

Execute the report from your task or from the System menu.

See Executing a Report.

In the selection criteria screen, enter the selection criteria in the appropriate fields.

See Selection Criteria.

To enter your selection criteria using a variant, you can select a variant from the dropdown list of possible entries. See Displaying Available Report Variants.

Choose Program

Execute + print.

The print screen appears. Complete the appropriate input fields.

The system displays default values that you can overwrite. If your list is large, you may want to store it in the output controller and print it later, outside of business hours. Printing large lists can slow down the system and tie up printers. See Printing from the SAP System.

In general, after you start printing a list, you cannot cancel it. You can cancel a list (that is, a spool request) only if you delete it immediately, before it leaves the SAP spool system.