eport Wizard uses templates to generate reports. Each report file format depends on the type of template files. The type of template files that Report Wizard supports includes plain text, RTF, HTML, Office Open XML (ISO/IEC 29500:2008), OpenDocument format (ISO/IEC 26300), and XML template (DocBook or FO).
Report Wizard provides predefined templates such as Use Case, Model Extension, Data Dictionary, IEEE 1233, Class Specification Diagram, Business Process Diagram, and Web Publisher templates. The report template management pane in the Report Wizard dialog lists all of the report templates from which you can select to manage or generate your report.
There are many template options, which are highlighted in orange, available to choose from in the Report Wizard dialog.
In this pane, you can create a new template, or use an existing one. The following table displays the buttons from which you can choose while working with your template. Additionally, the control buttons in the lower part of the dialog ,
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help you cancel an action, go to the next step, and generate a report.
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Opens the New Template dialog through which you can create a new template. | |
Edits a template and saves it in Report Wizard. | |
Deletes a template from Report Wizard. | |
Opens a template file in the default editor. | |
Creates a new template variable and modify or delete an existing template variable in the Template Variable dialog. | |
![]() | Clones a selected template. |
Copies a selected template and adds it to the project file. | |
![]() | Extracts an attached template to a local report templates folder. |
Imports a template. | |
Exports a template |
The following instructions illustrate how to use each button in the Report Wizard to create, select, and manage a template.
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The Confirm delete dialog |
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The steps to attach a template to a project file.
The new template will be created and displayed in the Report Wizard dialog and the Containment tree. Result of attaching a template in the Report Wizard dialog.
Result of attaching a template in the Containment tree.
You can right-click the attached template in the Containment tree, and select Generate Report{attached template name} to open the Report Wizard dialog. Opening the Report Wizard dialog via attached template in the Containment tree.
The Report Wizard template selection dialog
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A local template in the Report wizard's template selection pane.
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A template contains variables and their values. You can create a new template variable, and modify or delete an existing template variable in the Template Variable dialog. You cannot modify the variables of a built-in template. You can only create or modify a template variable of a user-created template.
The Template Variable dialog
The Template Variable dialog, contains the following:
The following instructions explain how to manage the variables of a template.
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You can modify a variable value in either the Template Variable dialog or Variable value dialog. How to modify a value in the Template Variable dialog
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Use case is a kind of behavior classifier that specifies a complete unit of useful functionality performed by one or more subjects to which the use case applies in collaboration with one or more actors. It also, for complete use cases, yields an observable result that is of some value to those actors or each subject. Use cases allow you to capture the requirements of systems under design or consideration, describe functionality provided by those systems, and determine the requirements those systems pose on their environment. |
Business process diagram is a road map for implementation. It outlines the expected outcome, and provides something concrete from which to build. |
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