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Tutorial: Using the System Architect Report Editor
This part of the Reporting System tutorial presents a series of screens labeled in order of the recommended sequence for completing the Add Report dialog. Links are provided to more information about each of the dialogs used to add a report.
In the ‘Tutorials’ part of the online help, Report generation and publishing covers running a prewritten report, creating your own report using the GUI Report Editor, and publishing a report in HTML.
Complete the following steps, which are highlighted in red in the following diagram. For more information, see Editing and adding a report.
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1 in the Report Name field, enter Tutorial Report.
The report name will appear at the top of the printed report page. The name will display in the report list at the center of the Reports dialog.
2 Enter a brief description of the report, ER Diagrams, Entities, Data, and Domains.
The description appears in the status line at the bottom of the Reports dialog when the report is selected.
3 This report queries the entire encyclopedia and does not use inheritance; therefore, do not select Current Diagram or Use Inheritance.
4 Select Diagrams as the starting Class specification (see Class specification).
5 Click the Where button to open the Select <class> Where dialog.
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6 Select Entity Relation as the Type, and then click OK.
7 Click Properties to Print to open the Select <class> Properties to Print dialog.
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a Select Name as the property to be printed using the procedure for specifying properties to be printed (see Editing and adding the report sort criteria).
b Label the column Diagram Name and specify names for the labels to be printed to the left of each entry in the column using the procedure for specifying property layout (see Editing and adding the report body layout).
c Click OK to return to the Add Report dialog.
8 Use the scroll bar to make the next level of the report visible.
9 In the Add Report dialog, repeat the following steps for the second level of the report.
•In step 4, select contain Symbols as the Relation/Class specification (see Reading the relationship diagram).
•In step 5, select Entity as the Type.
•In step 7, select Name as the property to be printed, and label the column Entity Name.
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10 Use the scroll bar to make the next level of the report visible.
11 Repeat the following steps for the third level of the report.
•In step 4, select defined by Definitions as the Relation/Class specification (see Reading the relationship diagram).
•Omit steps 5 and 7 for this level because an entity symbol is always defined by an entity definition having the same name; it is not necessary to specify a type or to print anything at this level of the report.
12 Use the scroll bar to make the next level of the report visible.
13 Repeat the following steps for the fourth level of the report.
•In step 4, select use Definitions as the Relation/Class specification (see Reading the relationship diagram).
•In step 5, select Attribute as the Type.
•Omit step 7 for this level.
14 Use the scroll bar to make the next level of the report visible.
15 Repeat the following steps for the fifth level of the report.
•In step 4, select instances of ("is a") Definitions as the Relation/Class specification (see Reading the relationship diagram).
•Step 5 can be omitted because the only types available are Data Element and Data Structure.
•In step 7, print the name and type of data item in the report. Label the Name column Data Name, and the Type column Type of Data.
16 Click Generate to produce output.
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17 To complete the tutorial, go to When you have completed the Add Report dialog.
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