Chapter 2 Creating Model and Multi-Model Reports

Introduction to PowerDesigner Model Reports

A report allows you to publish information about your model, and can be used to provide documentation for your system. You can create either:

A model report – documents the contents of a model, listing all or a selection of its objects, and showing how they are associated with one another. Listed in the browser within the Reports folder beneath its parent model, and saved with the model. See Creating a Model Report.
A multi-model report – documents one or more models, and can help you to see, for example, to which table in a physical data model (PDM) an entity in a conceptual data model (CDM) corresponds. Listed in the browser as a top-level object, and saved as a .mmr file. See Creating a Multi-Model Report.

PowerDesigner also lets you create list reports, which focus on a single type of object within a model. For more information, see the "Creating List Reports" chapter.