Chapter 11: Publishing Model Content

Once you've captured information in your Sparx repository, you will inevitably want to make that information available to your stakeholders. Expecting your stakeholders to have the ability or desire to navigate your repository using Sparx is not practical. They need information in a form with which they are comfortable. Fortunately, this is an area where Sparx, once again, shines, which brings us to the subject of this chapter – publishing model content.

In this chapter, we will learn different approaches to publishing model content for consumption by others in your enterprise. Unlike previous chapters, where we explored the use of the ArchiMate® language and the best ways to use it, this chapter is all about the publishing features of Sparx.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Generating document reports
• Introducing report templates
• Generating HTML content
• Using charts
• Creating custom SQL...