Understanding BOM Report Implementation

The high-level flow of the BOM Report implementation is as follows:

• When a user executes a BOM Report, its corresponding client method is called.
• The server method PE_ExecuteQdReportMethod is run through the client method.
• PE_ExecuteQdReportMethod calls the Query Definition (QD) for the selected BOM Report.
• The QD provides queries to retrieve report-specific data from the database.
• PE_ExecuteQdReportMethod parses results from the QD execution, and performs report specific logic, such as quantity roll-up. The resulting data in XML format includes level property and is in its final order so it can be transformed into HTML in a hierarchical view.
• The report stylesheet parses data in XML format into HTML using XSLT.

Table 3: Client Methods and Query Definitions for BOM Reports

The standard BOM Reports can be customized to add, remove, replace, and reorder columns. To customize a standard BOM report, configure its:

1. Query Definition (QD) to retrieve necessary properties.
2. Stylesheet to display these properties.