Book report items can contain cards, lists, text items, and sub-object
books to give detailed information about your model objects.
- To insert a book item, click in the Design or Outline view in
the position where you want to add the item and then double-click or drag and
drop the appropriate Toolbox item.
A book is displayed in the Outline view as a node with a
number of subitems, and the same series of items are shown in the Design
view:
- To remove unwanted sub-items from the book, select them in the
Outline view and press Delete or hover
over them in the Design view and click the X in the upper-right corner of the
item.
- To reorder sub-items inside the book, drag and drop them in the
Outline or Design view.
- For composite objects (such as packages that can contain other
packages or BPM processes or OOM classes that can contain other processes or
classes) you can choose between two presentations:
- List Display - [default] Objects, their children, grandchildren, and
subsequent descendants are all generated at the same level.
- Hierarchical Display - Children are generated as
sub-items inside the parent object book, grandchildren are generated as
sub-items inside the child book, and so on to any level of
decomposition. Select the Hierarchical Display
option in the Properties view.
- To modify the selection of objects that will be generated in the report from
this book and how they will be sorted, click the command bar
Selection tool and specify filter and sorting
criteria or a manual selection of objects (see Selecting Objects to Display for a Report Item).
- To modify the default styles for a sub-item, click its icon to
display the command bar, and then click the Styles tool
(see Specifying Global Styles and Local Formats for Report Items). To override the default styles for
this instance, click the Format tool.