Determine relevant Process(s)

Use Business Navigator ( Tools -> customizing -> Business navigator -> Process View) to get the list of process related to the Application area of the report.

Choose the relevant process for analysis from this list.

Find the Transaction code for the process.

Determine datafiles/tables

Overview
In case of SAP we are determining tables keeping data involved in a process using a process analyzer transaction code 'SE30'.

How to do it ?

Go to System --> Utilities --> Runtime Analysisl (transaction 'SE30') to analyse the Process. Use transaction code of the process as determined above and option 'Execute'.

Choose: Analyze --> Tables to display the tables used in the process

Identify the relevant table by the descriptions

Verify the table by browsing its data content using tansaction 'SE16'

Note:
This suggestion is only valid for SAP and will change depending on the programming environment. Please e-mail me any suggestion, Improvements that you have explored to achieve it. Determine fields of the table to be selected

Overview

How to do it ?
Identification of fields of report in the fields of the table requires an understanding of
1. Data-items of report including its constituents.
2. customization(Field Mapping) that has happened during customization in cases of where a field is fitted.
into another field not meant to keep that field. How to keep the mapping results ?
3. fields of the table. Help available on the fields in the business processes helps in it. 'F1' pressed on any field explains
contents of the field.

Note:
This suggestion is only valid for SAP and will change depending on the programming environment. Please e-mail me any suggestion, Improvements that you have explored to achieve it.

Deciding pattern to be selected Overview
Patterns are determined by giving constraints for fields of a table.

How to do it ?
Following fields of the table should be imposed constraints while selecting a pattern:
1. Fields of the table for which values are generated by the system.
    Data display of the table(SE16) found earlier helps in deciding the fields having system generated values.
2. Fields of the process for which values are decided as user discipline e.g. Document type.
    Running of processes with the help of Application Specialists helps one know the user discipline for fields
    involved in the process.

Select the key of the Subsequent /Previous function of the workflow cycle

This link among processes belonging to the application area is established in following ways:
1. Using Document flow table(VBFA in case of SAP)
2. Using Fields of the table keeping references of Previous function.
This requires the output of this step is stored in the structure to keep Entities of the business cycle related to
the report.

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