Report systems

The reporting system provides dozens of pre-written reports that are contained within a number of .rpt files. You can access these reports through the Reports menu choice within the tool, and easily select and run them without modification.

Creating new reports or modifying existing ones

The reporting system offers a graphical user interface to build your own reports, or modify existing ones. The user interface enables you to navigate System Architect’s metamodel, and build reports that are written in a SQL-based language. Although the graphical user interface is easy to use, in order to write a complicated report, some knowledge of the encyclopedia metamodel and underlying semantic relationships is generally necessary.

Output

The reporting system enables you to publish reports in a number of ways: sending them to a printer, generating them to HTML using an XSL stylesheet, or generating them to text format.

See Report outputs.