Create a new report to display Entity Relation diagrams and their symbols, attributes, and element types.

The report that you create looks at every Entity Relation diagram in the current encyclopedia. The report retrieves and prints the names of all entity symbols within the Entity Relation diagrams, and retrieves each entity symbol definition. Within that definition, the report also retrieves and prints the attributes and the data element type of those attributes.

To build your own report, knowledge of the encyclopedia metamodel is helpful. Included, is a visual representation of how a report queries and accesses the different parts of the encyclopedia for each step in the tutorial.

After completing the lessons in this module you will know how to:

This module should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Before you create a new report, you have to create a report file and add a new report to that file.

Specify that the report you want to run starts reporting at the diagram level.

Specify the properties that you want to get values for, and specify that you want them to print in every diagram.

Have your report show the symbols contained in their diagrams.

Limit the encyclopedia query to Entities on each ER diagram.

Select the properties of the definition type and the entities.

Use the "Is A" relationship to get the data element underlying each attribute.

Test the report in Draft mode, and create the report in HTML.