Chapter 4 Using the Report Editor

Introduction to the Report Editor

You can edit model reports, multi-model reports, a,nd report templates in the Report Editor. It displays the structure of the report or template as a tree view.

The Report Editor window contains two panes:

The Available Items pane (left pane), from which you can select items to include in the report.
The Report Items pane (right pane), in which you add the items that compose your report. It can also be filled with the items of a template that you select at the creation of your report.

By default, the Available Items pane displays only the report items that correspond to objects that exist in the current model. For example a database package (which is an Oracle specific object) is not displayed in the Report Editor with a model for Sybase ASE.

You can select the Show All Items check box at the top of the Available Items pane to display all available report items, even if they do not correspond to any object in the current model.

By default, in the Multi-Model Report Editor, all available report items are displayed if the associated model is not open in the workspace.