Using a Calculated Field to Update a Variant in a Scheduled SAP Query

In Chapter 6, "Using Reporting Selection Screens: Advanced Skills," you learned how to create variants to be saved with reports so that selection screens could be prepopulated with values, requiring no user interaction for report execution. As mentioned throughout this book, you can use a single SAP query report to satisfy multiple reporting needs simply by changing the values entered on the report's selection screen.

Having a variant saved with a report allows you to schedule the report as an SAP job to be run with no user interaction. To do this, you need to follow the steps outlined in any of the calculation examples provided in this chapter and Chapter 9. Then complete the steps outlined in Chapter 6, in the sections "How to Create a Variant for an SAP Query" and "Saving an SAP Query with a Variant."