Electronic reporting – Legal entity-specific parameters enhancements

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Business value

With planned feature improvements, more legislatively required reports can be implemented by using the electronic reporting (ER) framework. These improvements increase the configurability of such reports, making maintenance and customizations more efficient and allowing for faster reaction to legislative changes and specific customer requests.

It will help customers to more quickly deploy, set up, and start using such ER formats.

These improvements simplify the configuration of ER formats containing lookup data sources for a business user. They also make more effective the setting of ER format-specific company (legal entity) master data for a business user.

Feature details

A power user can configure a legal entity independent rule, translating its terms to all languages that are supported in Finance. Although a business user sets this rule up for a legal entity, the rule details are currently presented in the default language. This feature offers a business user the option to create rule terms in the user's preferred language.

When a power user configures a legal entity independent rule, a data source field is specified to return values describing the configured rule. Currently, this field is indicated only by the name. This feature provides the entire path to this field, allowing a power user to quickly navigate to it. Additionally, this feature allows a power user to explicitly identify what fields of the lookup data source will be presented for a business user when ER format-specific company (legal entity) master data is being set up.

A legal entity independent rule can now be configured to return only the enumeration data type for every configured condition. A power user can also configure a rule to return a text value as well.

See also

Configure electronic reporting (learn)