Chapter 4 Managing a Report

Organizing a Report into Sections

A report must always contain at least one section, which is displayed as a tab at the bottom of the Report Items pane of the Report Editor.

A report section allows you to segment your model in order to facilitate your analysis. Each section has its own selection of objects and can only be of one model type.

When you create a model report or a multi-model report, a section is automatically created by default. The type of the section corresponds to the type of the model you select when you create the report.

In a model report, sections are always related to the type of the model for which you generate the report. For example, if you want to generate a report for a BPM model, all the sections you create in your report are of a BPM type.

In a multi-model report, sections can be related to different model types, depending on the type of the models referenced in the workspace. For example, a multi-model report can contain a PDM related section, an OOM related section and a BPM related section, if these types of model are referenced in the workspace.

You manage report sections using the report property sheet.

You can create, delete, modify and rename as many sections as you want. You can create an empty section or a section based on a template.

By default, sections are numbered in a report but you can modify this property in the report property sheet.

For more information about the report property sheet see the "Modifying report properties" section.