Access
To work with report templates of the current application area, choose the Report templates tab of the Object manager.
Lists
Report templates
List of all the report templates attached to the current application area, with their names and description..
The sort sequence can be defined by clicking the column headers of the list.
Extended-selection list.
With correction environments, there may be a check mark in front of each report template name.
A red check mark shows that the report template is being held by the default correction.
A black check mark shows that the report template is being held by a correction other than the default correction.
Context-sensitive menu
The following options are accessible at all times via the context-sensitive menu.
In addition, there may be buttons to perform the same actions on the right-hand side of the window, depending on the settings in the Create/Modify a software engineer dialog box's Preferences tab.
Create
This option opens a dialog box which is used to create a report template.
Modify
This option opens a dialog box which is used to display or modify the general characteristics of the selected report template.
This option is not active when no report template is selected in the list.
Copy
This option is used to copy a report template of the current application area.
This option is not active when no report template is selected in the list.
Delete
This option deletes the selected report templates, after confirmation.
When the deletion is validated, the list of report templates is updated accordingly.
This option is not active when no report template is selected in the list.
This option prints the description of the selected report templates.
The printing job is submitted to the Job manager.
This option is not active when no report template is selected in the list.
Attach
This option opens a dialog box which is used to attach one or several report templates of the repository to the current application area.
Detach
This option detaches the selected report templates from the current application area.
This option is not active when no report template is selected in the list.
App. areas
This opens a dialog box displaying the application areas to which the selected report template is attached.
This is not active when no report template is selected in the list.
Analyze
This option opens a dialog box displaying all the reports which use the selected report template.
This option is not active when no report template is selected in the list.
Hold
This opens a dialog box enabling the selected report templates to be held by the default correction.
This is only visible in correction environments.
It is only active when one or more report templates are selected in the list and the user has a default correction.