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Document Options

The RTF report options enable you to set type filters and order the elements.

Topics

Topic

Detail

See also

How to Access

You can access the options from two different places; the start point affects the persistence of options selected:

•If you access the options on the Options and Advanced tabs of the Generate RTF Documentation dialog, you can define settings for the current report to be run; selections are non-persistent, and are reset when you exit the dialog or select a different template
•If you access the options on the Document Options dialog, by clicking on the File | Document Options menu option on the RTF Style Template Editor dialog, the settings are saved with the template as the default settings for any run of this report

 

Generate RTF Documentation

File Control

Design Custom RTF Templates

RTF Element Filters

Other Filters

Document Options dialog

The Document Options dialog provides the options from both of the Options and Advanced tabs of the Generate RTF Documentation dialog, plus the Element Filters and Other Filters tabs, except for:

•The Switch generator button
•The Disable large OLE file support option
•The Insert page breaks when generating a Master Document option

 

The dialog also contains the Optimize for Open Office option, as described for the Generate RTF Documentation dialog, and tabs for setting Element Filters and Other Filters.

Click on the OK button to save your changes.

 

Generate RTF Documentation

Element Filters

Other Filters

Reference

The Options tab of the Generate RTF Documentation dialog has the following fields:

Field

Usage

See also

Only include objects

Filter elements according to date created or modified.

In the first two fields, select the qualifiers from the drop-down lists; in the third field, select the appropriate date.

 

 

Where Package Phase

Filter elements according to the value of the Package Phase field.

In the first field select the qualifier, and in the second type the required phase (or leave the default value All).

 

 

With element status

Filter elements according to status.

In the first field, select the qualifier (like, not like, in, not in) and in the second field type the value to be used.

Values should be enclosed in quotes; for example: "Proposed".

If you type more than one value, separate them with a comma; for example: "Proposed", "Implemented".

 

 

Connector Direction

Filter connectors according to direction.

If you select Both, the connector is documented twice; once for the source element and once for the target.

For the remaining two values, the connector is documented only for the source or target element, as appropriate.

 

 

Packages by

Order packages in the generated documentation in either ascending or descending order of Name, Tree Order, Modified Date or Created Date.

 

 

Elements by

Order elements in the generated documentation in either ascending or descending order of Name, Tree Order, Modified Date or Created Date.

 

 

Diagrams by

Order diagrams in the generated documentation in either ascending or descending order of Name, Tree Order, Modified Date or Created Date.

 

 

Exclude details for

Exclude all elements of the selected type or types from the generated document.

 

 

Exclude connector type

Exclude all connectors of the selected type or types from the generated document.

 

 

 

The Advanced tab of the Generate RTF Documentation dialog has the following fields:

Field

Usage

See also

Hide 'note-less' elements

Exclude all elements without notes from the documentation.

 

 

Diagram Format

Set the diagram format for the images included within the documentation to either Metafile or Bitmap.

 

 

Skip root package

Exclude the parent package from the documentation and include only the child packages.

 

No bookmarks

Stop RTF bookmarks being inserted into the generated document.

 

 

Adjust Heading Levels

Enable the RTF Generator to automatically restrict the levels of heading generated for nested sub-packages in a document

The generator reproduces heading levels down to the value you set; for example, if you have four nested levels of sub-packages and you set this field to:

•Heading 2, all sub-packages in the report are documented under level 2 headings
•Heading 4, the first level of subpackages are documented under level 2 headings, the next level under level 3 headings, and the remainder all under level 4 headings
•Heading 6, the first level of subpackages are documented under level 2 headings, the next level under level 3 headings, the next under level 4 headings, and the next under level 5 headings; if you added further levels of sub-package they would all be documented under level 6 headings

 

The field defaults to Heading 9 to accommodate the maximum number of levels of nested subpackages.

 

 

Hide <Anonymous> elements

Hide anonymous elements in the documentation.

 

 

Use style defined in template for notes

Override the character formatting specified in your Notes fields with the formatting set for the field in the template.

 

 

Disable large OLE file support

Disable support for large Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) files.

 

 

Insert page breaks when generating a Master Document

 

Insert a page break after each Model Document in a Master Document.

Virtual Documents

Include child elements even if the parent element is filtered out

Document all child elements that are not otherwise filtered out by the restrictions, even if the parent elements are filtered out.

 

 

Hide 'note-less' connectors

Exclude all connectors without notes from the documentation.

 

 

Switch generator

Switch from this Generate RTF Documentation dialog (the Enhanced Template Driven Generator) to the Rich Text Format Report dialog (Legacy Generator).

This button is not available if you displayed the dialog from the Diagram List, Package Browser or Model Search.

 

The Legacy RTF Report Generator