Reporting: relevant packages only

[Rouven]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to understand the RTF reporting that comes with Enterprise Architect and how I could build a report template that meets my current requirements. Unfortunately I'm not getting anywhere, so here's my question: how do I accomplish the following with a template:

Model structure:

Package A
+- Package A.1
     +- Package A.1.1
+- Package A.2
     +- Package A.2.1
+- Package A.3
     +- Package A.3.1

There are model elements in all of the above packages. For my report, the only relevant model elements are in A.1, A.3 and A.3.1 - I obtain them by specifying required filter criteria.

My report is to look as follows:
Headline: A.1
    <element fields as specified for all relevant elements in A.1> in table form
Headline: A.3
    <element fields as specified for all relevant elements in A.3 AND A.3.1> in table form

So essentially I have:

• a filter for which elements are relevant
• a criteria when a package name should appear as a headline: either it or its direct sub package contains a relevant element

All I can get is a template that will contain all package names as headlines (which means all the irrelevant ones as well) and I seem to find no way of skipping A.3.1 either.

Can this be done with EA reporting?

Thanks,
Rouven

[OpenIT Solutions]

Yep. Just check Package and Element and make sure Child Package is unchecked in the RTF editors 'Sections' dialogue. Then right mouse click in the RTF editor and select File -> Document Options and check 'Skip root package' on the Advanced pane.

Regards,

Jon.

[Peter Nordlund]

Hi,
I am trying to do the same. And I can not figure out exactly what you mean by
"..and make sure Child Package is unchecked in the RTF editors 'Sections' dialogue.."
I have a filter that matches Element Tagged Values. Currently i have a match for 3 use cases, but there are 7 packages. And all packages are shown regardless if there is any element matching the filter.

Can you elaborate on the solution given for EA 9.3 (or 8.0).
And explain if what I am after is possible through
that?
Regards Peter

[skiwi]

A document meta-model looks a bit like this.



All you have to do is drag the selected packages into a model document.


You then might see something like this

where two packages - "Amending the document" and "Ordering of sections" use the same model document ("Model Content") (which uses the model document template "GENERIC-Text")

[beany386]

Per chance is it possible to post an example eap file showing the use of a document model?

I like most people would love to see an actual example

Thanks in advance.

[Robert Sheridan]

I achieved something similar by dragging the packages I was interested in into a virtual document section.