Reports

Reports allow you to publish information about your model, and can be used to provide documentation for your system.

You can create the following types of report:

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 list report – documents a single object type, and can help you to see, for example, the type of each table in a physical data model (PDM). Listed in the browser within the List Reports folder beneath its parent model, and saved with the model. See Creating a List 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.

Creating a Model Report
There are two steps to creating a PowerDesigner model report:
Creating a List Report
A list report documents a single object type within a model, and is displayed as a customizable list with columns and rows that you can filter as necessary. A list report is saved in the model and can be exchanged between models of the same type.
Creating a Multi-Model Report
A multimodel report (MMR) is a PowerDesigner report that can document any number of models together and show the links between them. To create such a report, you must have at least one model open in the workspace, and you can add additional models at any time.
The Report Editor
You can edit model reports, multi-model reports, and report templates in the Report Editor. The left pane, Available Items, lists the items you can include in the report, while the right pane, Report Items, displays the structure of your report.
Report Templates
A report template specifies content and formatting for a report section. PowerDesigner provides a set of standard report templates, and you can create your own. If your report has more than one section, you can apply the same or different report templates to each section.

Parent topic: The PowerDesigner Interface