The following distinction is made between sequential and structural reporting:
- Sequential:
- In sequential reporting, you can list the objects to be evaluated by using their IDs. A sequential evaluation then takes place for all of the objects you have specified. For example, you can display a list of all existing jobs.
- Structural:
- In structural reporting, the system interprets the selected object as a root object. Based on this root object and the relationships, the system constructs a hierarchical structure.
- Sequential and Structural:
In sequential and structural reporting, the system treats each selected object as the root object for an evaluation path.
Standard Selection Screen
The logical database PCH used for reporting in Organizational Management (OM) contains a Standard Selection screen. The Standard Selection screen allows you to access additional report parameters that you may wish to use in developing your report request.
Structure Parameters and Technical Depth
The Structure Display / Maintenance screen includes the following structure parameters:
- Evaluation Path:
- This parameter allows you to confine a query or a report to a specified evaluation path.
- Status Vector:
- This parameter determines which selected objects are read according to the status of their relationships.
- Display Depth:
- This parameter is a number that specifies the number of levels of the organizational structure that are to be shown.
- Technical Depth:
- This parameter is a number that specifies the number of the organizational structures that are to be processed.
- Recursion Check:
- This parameter indicates whether the system needs to check the relationship between objects for recursion.
- Status Overlap:
- This parameter is used with the Status Vector field to start a simulation run to demonstrate the effects of activating infotypes.
The Technical Depth and the Display Depth fields contain a number that can be up to 6 digits in length. This number corresponds to the different levels of an organizational structure. If you do not wish to limit the display or processing, you can leave these fields blank.
A recursion occurs when the system traces many relationships among objects in a structure and finds no termination point. The system is therefore in an endless loop.
The change in status that you simulate by using status overlap is only temporary and does not affect the structure.
Structure Conditions
You can set various structure conditions that objects must meet if they are to be displayed in the structure.
You can create more than one structure condition.
In the Structure Conditions dialog box, you can specify the conditions that objects must fulfill if they are to be displayed in the structure. You can define several conditions and their use for reporting.
You can also specify when the system stops checking the objects in a structure, that is, whether it checks all the objects (object filter) or whether it stops as soon as it encounters an object that does not meet the set conditions (branch filter).