Report and Print - Difference

[Former Member]

Difference between a normal report program and Print program?

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report program is one which is used to display report over screen as output...this data can either be donwloaded to presentation or application server...even can be printed over a printer....

print program is a script or smart form which gets triggered when a documnet is either issued to a printer thru a transaction.

[Former Member]

Hi jayashree,

Difference between report and Print program is that we write a report for analyzation mostly within the organization but whereas Print program we write for sapscripts and smartforms which are used for correspondense purposes like addressing someone it could be customer or a business partner for billing, invoices, purchase orders..etc

Even if the business process used for both is same, it differs in presentation.

Hope you r clear with this.

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thanks a lot.

Regards,

Santosh Kotra..

[Former Member]

from a business sense report program is used for simple reporting which we can download to excel and do some analysis on it.

script is some type of output which we want in a print like we create a sales order and we want to take a print out of the same.