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Reports in SAP can be accessed through transactions SE38 and SA38. This is the normal way of accessing reports within SAP. Reports can also be called up indirectly using the transaction codes SE80 and SE84. To make things easier, many users prefer converting reports to transactions for easy and simple access. How does one go about doing this. There are two ways of doing this. A report in SAP can be integrated in the area menu or in a role menu.

Once this is done, the report reflects in the user menu. The structure of such report is S_ALR_XXXXXXX. The problem in this case is that there is no link between the report and the transaction name as SAP names the transactions consecutively. The alternative method of converting SAP reports to transactions is storing reports with a transaction set by the user. The report can then be called up by the user using the T-Code. It is important to use correct authorization object like S_PROGRAM to protect such reports from unauthorized access. From a user authorization audit prespective, this is important. Since access is best controlled at the authorization object level.

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