(KATE-1705) ERP Report Definition & Variant editor

The ERP Report Test Case is a collection of Report Variants. After you click on 'Variants' button (Figure 67) a screen for Report Variants selection is displayed (Figure 68).

_{Creation of ERP Report Test Case}

_{ERP Test Case variant selection screen}

Here you can create a new or add an existing Report Variants into an ERP Report Test Case. All these functions are accessible from toolbar menu.

Create New Report Variant

To create a new Report Variant click on the 'Create New Report Variant' button.

The Screen for creating new Report Variant is displayed by clicking on the 'Create New Report Variant' button (Ctrl + F3).

_{Create new Report Variant screen}

In this screen you can define:

RFC Destination – RFC destination that is to be used for Report Variant execution.
Variant Description – The description of the new Report Variant.
Report (required) – Technical name of report to be used for image creation.
Report Variant (ABAP Variant) – Variant of specified report to be used when the report is executed. These variants can be manage ins transaction SE38.

The Report Variant is created after you click on the 'Continue' button (Enter).

KATE creates before and after images from report execution spool. Only reports that create such spools when executed in background job should be used.

Add Existing Report Variant

The 'Add Existing Report Variant' button displays all of the existing Report variants in the system and you can select one or more variants to be added into the current Test Case.

Add Report Variants of Run

The 'Add Report Variants of Run' button displays all of the ERP Reports that have been run in the system and you can select one these variants to be added into the current test case.

Copy Variants

You can create copies of Report variants by selecting multiple variants in selection table and then clicking on 'Copy Report Variants' toolbar button. For each selected variant new variant is created with exactly same settings as source variant.

_{Copy Variants}

Options available from Variant editor:

Variant editor

Variant editor provides a central location where you can manage all the backend-testing variants

Delete Report Variants

Deleting the existing Report Variants can be done easily by selecting the desired rows and clicking on the delete button in ALV toolbar.

Any Report Variants that are still in use in the Backend Testing will be locked; therefore it is first necessary to delete these Report Variants from the given runs (or specific runs) before proceeding in deleting them permanently from the Report Variant Editor (i.e. system).

Transport Report Variants

It is possible to add the specified Report Variants to a transport to be transferred to another system (with KATE installed). To specify which of the Report Variants are to be transported you need to select them from the list. There are options for filtering and sorting in the ALV table that can be used to select the specified Report Variants more easily.

_{Selecting Report Variants to be transported}

After selecting the desired Report Variants and clicking on the 'Transport Report Variants' button, choose your transport request. You can select the request and confirm the transport for the selected Report Variants.
It is important to note that the Report Variants only carry information about KATE related items, and not the transformation structures themselves so they should be imported only to system where KATE is installed and the same reports/variants with same structure exist.

Edit Report Variant

You can edit the existing Report variants by double clicking on them in the table view. Only Variants that are not already in use in Test Runs can be edited. If a Report Variant is already used in the Test Runs, then the details can only be reviewed but not changed.
When variant details are displayed you can check where this variant is used. By pressing the 'Where Used' button a table is displayed that contains all Test Plan/Test Case/Run ID information where this variant is used.

_{Where Used List for Variant}

Cleanup Report Variants

You can delete all unused Report variants by clicking on 'Cleanup Report Variants' button. First screen with preselection filters of variants is displayed and you can restrict which variants should be checked for deletion. After you confirm this screen, a check is done to find all unused variants. A variant is unused if it is not assigned to any Test Case or Test Run.

_{Report Variant Cleanup Preselection}

All variants evaluated as not used are displayed in the dialog window and when you confirm the selection in this window variants are deleted from the system.