Chapter 12 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 report in RTF (for MS Word) or CSV (for MS Excel) format

Copies the report in RTF or CSV 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. For more information, see "Defining a filter on a list" in the "Using the PowerDesigner Interface" chapter.

Enables or disables the filter

 


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