Introducing report templates

To better understand report templates, it's best to have a conceptual understanding of the Sparx repository structure. A Sparx repository is a collection of model elements. We place these elements within packages and represent them in one or more diagrams.

Elements, packages, and diagrams have various attributes. Attributes include things such as requirements, files, issues, constraints, or rules. Elements often have relationships or connectors to other elements. There are relationships that you create in a diagram by dragging a connector from one source element to another target element.

There are also parent-child relationships. For example, a package may contain or be a parent to many elements, diagrams, and other packages. An element may be nested within another parent element. Elements, attributes, connectors, diagrams, and packages all contain fields such as names, notes, and dates.

Report templates provide the specification of precisely...