Apparatus and method for consolidating reporting formulas

• US 20070074112A1
• Filed: 12/23/2005
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Business Objects Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Business Objects (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Knauer, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US11/318,351
• Publication Number:
  US 20070074112A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/209
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data

Abstract

A computer readable medium comprising executable instructions to consolidate formulas from a report; display the formulas; process edits to the formulas to identify valid and invalid edits; and present revised formulas.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium comprising executable instructions to:

consolidate formulas from a report;

display said formulas;

process edits to said formulas to identify valid and invalid edits; and

present revised formulas.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein said executable instructions to display include executable instructions to display said formulas as a text string.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2 wherein said executable instructions further comprise executable instructions to create a mapping between said formulas and said text string.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein said executable instructions to present include executable instructions to visually display valid and invalid edits.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to apply said revised formulas to said report.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 5 wherein said executable instructions to apply include executable instructions to apply said revised formulas to said report by saving said report.

7. A computer readable medium, comprising:

a formula consolidation module to consolidate formulas from a report;

a graphical user interface module to display said formulas; and

a report engine with a syntax module to process edits to said formulas to identify valid and invalid edits, wherein the graphical user interface module presents revised formulas.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7 wherein the graphical user interface module displays said formulas as a text string.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8 further comprising executable instructions to create a mapping between said formulas and said text string.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 7 wherein the graphical user interface module visually displays valid and invalid edits.