Chapter 3 Managing Report Templates

Understanding the Report Template Editor

The Report Template Editor is an independent module. It allows template creation and modification. You can open the Report Template Editor with no model attached to it.

A report template is an independent and reusable file saved on your hard disk, which indicates what information to include in your report.

You can use this file to quickly generate model reports or multi-model reports (several models in the same report).

With the Report Template Editor, you can:

Create a template
Modify a template
Save a template in a .RTP file

You can use standard templates that ship with PowerDesigner or create your own templates.

For more information about creating a report template see the "Creating a report template" section.

Standard report templates

By default PowerDesigner ships with a series of predefined structures called templates.

Standard report templates are installed in the Resource Files sub-directory of your PowerDesigner directory. There are three types of standard templates for each type of model.

Template type	File naming convention*	Contents of resulting report
Full	modelFULlanguage.RTP	Table of contents All main model items
Standard	modelSTDlanguage.RTP	Table of contents Model graphs Package graphs Most list items
List	modelLISlanguage.RTP	Title item All list items

* language in a filename is a two letter code for the language of the report template. For example, a PDM list report in English uses the template file PDMLISUS.RTP.