Chapter 14 Impact analysis

Managing and printing the impact analysis

The List page of the Impact Analysis dialog box allows you to define the content of the impact analysis report using the Filter tool. You can select exactly which attributes of impacted objects you need to visualize in order to have the best impact overview.

You can print the content of the list using the Print tool.

The list displays standard management tools:

Tool	Description
	Displays the property sheet of the selected item in the list
	Saves the impact analysis report in RTF (to open it in MS Word) or CSV (to open it in MS Excel) format
	Copies the report in RTF (to paste in MSWord) or CSV (to paste in MS Excel) format
	Prints the report
	Opens the Find dialog box to let you search the list for a specific item
	Opens the Customize Columns and Filter dialog box to let you select attributes to display or remove, and also filter the display using expressions. You can select attributes specific to impact analysis like "Event" that indicates the impact analysis event, or "Propagation path" that provides the list of influent objects and collection names that provoked an impact
	Enables or disables the filter

For more information on the Customize Columns and Filter tool, see "Defining a filter on a list" in the "Using the PowerDesigner Interface" chapter.