TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter shows you how to prepare ORM reports by printing model diagrams directly and by using the New Report Wizard for ORM to prepare reports on constraints, fact types, object types, and supertypes. This chapter describes four reports, each of which extracts a different set of properties from your model using customizable filters and attributes.
You can prepare ORM reports from within an ORM source model or from within a Database Model Diagram. There are three additional reports for logical models: Statistics, Table, and Data type. These are described in Chapter 15.
You can create, print, preview, and export comprehensive reports based on the properties stored in an ORM source model. For example, you can create a report that fully documents your conceptual design, or you can prepare a selective report for review with a domain expert. You can preview your report to ensure that you have chosen the right filters, attributes, and formatting options to create a report that precisely meets your needs. You can export your report to an .RTF file for further editing with a word processing application.
In the Database Model Diagram, you can merge several models into a single project and use the reports described in this chapter to report on the merged project file. The "merge and report" is facility is useful for tasks such as creating organization wide data dictionaries.
From within an ORM source model, you can preview or print your model's diagrams directly. You can choose to print...
