Types of Reports in ABAP

By the term report we can understand a simple list of data which will give us some information. Reporting is very common and most important feature that every organization wants. Let's say a manager wants how much sale/production happened in a day. Or between a date range. To serve that purpose, we can create a report where he can enter the dates and get the details.

In ABAP there are many types of report.

Classical report:  This is the very basic report. It will simply return you the out as per the data selected by user.

Interactive report: In an interactive report user can communicate with the display data. User can double click on any item and can get more specific information, which is hidden while overall display. User can send data in email format and many more extra features can be added.

logical database : A logical database is a special type of ABAP/4 program which combines the contents of certain database tables. You can link a logical database to an ABAP/4 report program as an attribute. The logical database then supplies the report program with a set of hierarchically structured table lines which can be taken from different database tables.

 

Alv Report: Alv is functionality which was provided by SAP only to enhance many features in a classical or interactive report. This improves the look of a report and provides many inbuilt easy to use features like summation by column, print report, sorting etc.