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Report Specification Document

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#1

Hi All,
I am New to Business Objects,
I am in need to prepare Report Specification/Design Document by understanding given reports (around 60nos ).
If any Gurus has a knowledge of this documenting work then pls let me know any links or suggestions or any new ideas.

Thanks In advance

Regards 8)

Raghu

RAGHU_KATTI (BOB member since 2006-05-24)

#2

Hi,
You create a report design document with the follwoing details for each of the report.

  1. Class/Object or Table/Class Name which ever as the standara you choose
    2.Prompts
    3.Query Filters
    4.Alert
    5.Drill Filters

You can start the design document with the above mentioned and add your own if required

Regards
Pradeep

pradeep.bm :india: (BOB member since 2004-06-09)

#3

It depends on company preferences. But here is something you can have in general

Report Title
Report ID
Frequency
Description
SOrt Sequence
Notes(If any)

Attach sample report format
Columns used in the report format
Descriptions of the columns
Table
You can put above fields in a tabular column.

Hope this helps.

Raja Saripalli :us: (BOB member since 2005-12-14)

#4

Hi Raghu,

I am new to business objects, need to prepare Report Design Specification by understanding given reports.

If you have any sample report design doc. could you please reply to my message.

looking forward for your reply.

Thanks,
Praveen

Praveen8367 (BOB member since 2010-11-27)

#5

Hi All,

Some more points which I feel are important to be mentioned in the Report Design Specification.

1. The report purpose
2. The report user(who will view the report)
3. Description of each TAB present in the report with purpose

Report design document must cover the report’s technical aspects in utmost details:
1. Alerters
2.Sections
3.Breaks
4.Conditions used in all the queries(always use some nomenclature for the Data Providers)
5.Report level filters/Tab level filters
6.Prompts if any - with their texts
7.For each object - the whole path Class/Subclass/…/Object
8.Linked Objects
9.Use of free hand SQL - (if it is present)
10.Report Level variables with the respective formulae

There could be many more aspects applicable for a report. It depends on the complexity of the report.

Thanks,
Joy :smiley:

joyq (BOB member since 2010-05-07)

#6

Joy,

Thanks a lot for qiuck response.

Do you have any sample report spec doc? if you do, could you please respond…

Thanks,
Praveen

Praveen8367 (BOB member since 2010-11-27)

#7

Good Day

Could you please send me the sample of report specification.i want to see how it looks like.

violetm (BOB member since 2012-06-27)

#8

Welcome to B:bob:B!

Check this, it can help:

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)