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Custom Document Templates
You use report templates to generate reports on your model that present specific information in a particular format, and to generate those reports repeatedly and consistently. You can select from a range of system templates on the Document Generator, to immediately generate reports from your model.
A template consists of:
| • | 'Sections' that identify the model components to report on |
| • | Fields that identify the type of information to extract on each component |
| • | Styles and formatting instructions that define the layout of the report |
| • | Template Fragments containing smaller sub-templates |
The system provides more specialized document templates for separate Cover Pages, Stylesheets and Tables of Contents.
You can also design your own custom templates, which provide the additional advantages of being able to generate reports tailored to your own organization, and to update certain aspects of the report without having to re-define every other specification. The report generator helps you manage these custom templates; that is:
| • | Review the custom templates available to you for generating reports |
| • | Create additional custom templates |
| • | Edit custom templates |
| • | Import templates that were saved to XML files, and |
| • | Delete any custom templates that are no longer required |
Access Project Browser package context menu | Documentation | Generate Documentation (F8) > Templates
Manage your Custom Templates
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User Templates |
Lists the custom Templates, Fragments, Stylesheets, Cover Pages and Tables of Contents currently available to you for generating reports through the Generate tab. Your custom templates can be grouped within these standard folders (by Template Type), or in another folder that you have created to hold specific templates - see below.
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To create a new custom template, click on this button. The New Document Template dialog displays. In the New template field, type the template name. In the Template Type field, click on the drop-down arrow and select the type of template to create. In the Copy Template field, click on the drop down arrow and select either:
In the Template Group field either:
The Template Group determines the organization of document templates in the Resources window. You cannot create a template of a specific type and assign it to the standard group of a different type. For example, you cannot specify a Fragment and select to create it in the Cover Page folder. It either goes to a user-created group that you select or is automatically redirected to the Fragment folder. Click on the OK button; the template opens in the Document Template Designer.
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Design Custom Document Templates
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Edit |
To make changes to an existing template, click on the template name and then click on this button. The template opens in the Document Template Designer.
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Design Custom Document Templates
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Import From Reference File |
To import custom templates that were previously saved to batch XML files (that is, through the Export Reference Data option), click on this button. The Import Reference Data dialog displays. Click on the Select File button and browse for and select the required source XML file. In the Select Datasets to Import panel, click on the required datasets:
Click on the Import button to import the templates. The names of the imported templates are added to the list on the Templates tab. If the template you want to import is a single, external file (not in a batch file) you can instead open a template and use a different option to import the file into that template.
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Delete |
To delete a custom template, click on the template name and click on the Delete button. A prompt displays to confirm the deletion. You can select multiple custom templates for deletion; press Ctrl or Shift as you click on each template name.
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Notes
| • | In the Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, System Engineering and Ultimate editions of Enterprise Architect, if security is switched on, you need Configure Resources access permission to create document templates |
| • | Whatever template you initially select on the Template tab or New Document Template dialog, of whichever template type and/or group, you can easily switch to a different template and template type within the Document Template Editor whenever you need to |
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