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Setting Sections for Reporting

Sections in RTF reports allow you to define what content to deliver in your report.

How to

To select model components to be documented in the report, using the RTF Style Template Editor

Step

Action

See also

1

Expand the Sections tree on the <template name> screen.

 

2

Select the checkbox next to the component name; the component name is then displayed as a section tag in the Content panel.

More specific guidance is provided for selecting the following components:

Linked Documents and Document Artifact Contents
Tabular Sections
Embedded Sections
Child Sections
Constraint and Scenario Sections
Reporting elements held in external packages
Tagged Values
Profiled Relationship Matrices

Reporting Linked Documents

Tabular Sections

Embedded Elements Sections

Child Sections

Constraint and Scenario Sections

Report Elements From External Packages

Tagged Value Sections

Reporting Profiled Relationship Matrices

3

In the Content Panel add text and fields to each report component.

The position of the section tags within the Sections tree determines the position of the model component in the Content panel. For encapsulated components, selecting a child component automatically selects the parent also.

 

Add Section Content

How to

To move a model component to a different position in the documentation template, follow the steps below.

Step

Action

See also

1

Select the component in the Sections panel.

 

 

2

Click on uphand and downhand to move the component up and down the Sections panel.

 

 

Notes

To enable you to include elements from external packages, if the Package.Diagram.Element checkboxes are selected, you must select either the Document each contained element in RTF checkbox in the Diagram Properties dialog for at least one included diagram, or the Include all diagram elements in report checkbox on the Generate RTF Documentation dialog

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(Alt+F1) | Reporting | RTF Templates | Add a Section