The Legacy Report Editor

You can edit model reports, multi-model reports, and report templates in the Report Editor. To open a report in the Report Editor, double-click it in the Browser or select Report > Reports to open the List of Reports, select your report and click the Edit Report tool.

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.

The Available Items pane lists only the report items that correspond to objects that exist in the current model. For example, if you have not created any interfaces in your OOM, then the List of Interfaces and Interface book will not be listed. Select Show All Items at the top of the pane to display all the report items available for this kind of 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.

The following tools are available from the Report toolbar:

• Adding Items to a Report (Legacy Reports)
  The Available Items pane of the Report Editor lists the items that you can add to your report.
• Modifying Items in the Report Items Pane (Legacy Reports)
  You can move items in the Report Items pane by dragging and dropping them.
• Modifying the Title of an Item (Legacy Reports)
  Package, object, and object-dependent items all have default titles, and you can insert Title items anywhere in the Report Items pane and as often as you want. You can edit the default text of these report items.
• Modifying the Collection of an Item (Legacy Reports)
  You can extend the PowerDesigner metamodel to, for example, add new properties to an existing object (extended attributes), to create new objects (extended objects), and to create new connections between object types (extended and calculated collections and extended compositions). These latter collection extensions are not included, by default, in the object book report items in the Available Items pane of the Report Editor and must be added by hand.
• Selecting Objects to Display in the Report
  By default, the report includes all the objects in your model. You can restrict the objects included by making a selection, which is saved with the report.
• Specifying Default Fonts for Report Items (Legacy Reports)
  You can specify default fonts for report items, report templates and reports. The default fonts are saved in the registry.
• Formatting Textual Report Items (Legacy Reports)
  The Format dialog allows you to specify formatting for the selected report items.
• Editing Textual Report Items (Legacy Reports)
  You can edit the text of a text paragraph or a text file in a text editor by double-clicking it or right-clicking it and selecting Edit.
• Formatting Graphical Report Items (Legacy Reports)
  You can access the report items Graph Format dialog in any of the following ways:
• Controlling the Layout of List Report Items (Legacy Reports)
  List report items are published as tables, ordered by the name or code of the objects. You can specify which attributes will be displayed, in which order, and the width of their columns.
• Controlling the Layout of Card Report Items (Legacy Reports)
  Card report items represent the property sheets of individual objects and are published as two-column tables. You can specify which attributes will be displayed, and in which order.
• Suppressing the Titles of Report Items (Legacy Reports)
  You can suppress the title of any item in your report. The following illustration shows a portion of a report, with the title of the process card displayed:
• Modifying Report Section Headers and Footers (Legacy Reports)
  The Report includes a default header and footer that you can modify.
• Previewing Your Report (Legacy Reports)
  You can preview your report by selecting Report > Print Preview or by clicking the Preview tool in the End page of the Report Creation Wizard. You can preview a report item by right-clicking it in the Report Items pane and selecting Quick View.
• Upgrading Legacy Reports for Use with the Graphical Editor
  You can upgrade a legacy report to allow it to be edited in the new graphical Report Editor at any time from the Browser or the List of Reports. You can upgrade a legacy report template from the List of Report Templates.