RTF report - Business Process & subprocesses

[K N]

Hi
 
Can you help me generate a rtf report which has
1.       Business process – model & its process narrative
2.       Its sub-processes – model and its respective process narrative
 
I have tried almost all help demos on reporting…and I am not able to generate this.

I am attaching the link here to the sample eap file and the document that i want to generate out of EA.

1. This is the link to the document format i am trying to generate....i have inserted few comments in the document so that you have an idea what is needed where from EA

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21814326/test.docx

2. This is the link to the EAP file from which the above document needs to be generated.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21814326/test.EAP


Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks
KN

[Stoppy]

Hi KN,

First off I am no expert in RTF documents in EA.

But looking at your modelling structure and the RTF template, I can't see how EA will know how to include the set of elements with in your sub processes as there is so many levels.

A suggestion, try and package up your model a bit more:

Example:
Package Level 1 - Business Process View
Package Level 2 - Eligibility and Enrollment
Package Level 3 - Employee Management (Includes High Level Model)
Package Level 4 - Sub Processes (Detail Level Models)
Package Level 4 - Requirements (Detail Level Models)


This is how I model so I can control the versioning of my processes, etc... at a more granualar level.

Then generate the report from the Package Level 2.

Hope that helps.

Stoppy

[Helmut Ortmann]

Hi KN,

with EA rtf master documents you can document arbitrary packages.

You find an example in the Example.eap.

Helmut

[K N]

Thank you Helmut & Stoppy

I will surely try both ways and see how it comes up..

Thanks
KN

[K N]

@Helmut - I tried the master rtf document but the thing if i include the first package in one of  my model document it will take all the subpackages too ...right...in that case i would hv to structure my packages in a diff way...
let me know if i am wrong here...


@Stoppy - I structured the packages as you suggested. Only one thing - under the Requirements package I have couple of subpackages in which i hv list of requirements ...which are not getting displayed in the rtf...how to get them in the report?

Thanks
KN

[Helmut Ortmann]

Hi KN,

you are right! The rtf generator always works on the package and it's subpackages.

Helmut

[Dermot]

You can try excluding the sub-pacakges using:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/10/reporting/includeorexcludeapackagef.html

[Stoppy]

Hi KN,

@Stoppy - I structured the packages as you suggested. Only one thing - under the Requirements package I have couple of subpackages in which i hv list of requirements ...which are not getting displayed in the rtf...how to get them in the report?

So you are getting about 80% of the expected output?

If this is your packaging:
Package Level 1 - Business Process View
      Package Level 2 - Eligibility and Enrollment
            Package Level 3 - Employee Management (Includes High Level Model)
               Package Level 4 - Sub Processes (Detail Level Models)
               Package Level 4 - Requirements (Detail Level Models)
               Package Level 5 - Requirements (Sub packages)

maybe move the packaging around to this:

Package Level 1 - Business Process View
      Package Level 2 - Eligibility and Enrollment
            Package Level 3 - Employee Management (Includes High Level Model)
               Package Level 4 - Sub Processes (Detail Level Models)
            Package Level 3 - Requirements (Detail Level Models)
               Package Level 4 - Requirements (Sub packages)

Then generate the report from the Package Level 2.

Hope this helps.

Does anyone know if there is a package limit on RTF export?

Regards,

Stoppy?

[K N]

Hello everyone

sorry for the late reply.....was on vacation

@Stoppy - sure let me try the way you suggested.

@Helmut & @Dermot - its like i m there with what i want but not exactly there....so its just that i hv to play around with structuring the packages to get the right output....thts what i can think of right now....

Thanks
KN