Tool Mentor:
Creating a Business Entity Report Using Rational SoDA
Purpose
This tool guide describes how to use Rational SoDA to create a Business Entity Report.
SoDA automates the generation of the report so that it is created quickly and
accurately. You can generate a Business Entity Report with either the
Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker version of SoDA.
Related Rational Unified Process information:
Overview
This tool mentor is applicable when running Windows 98, Windows 2000, NT 4.0,
Windows XP, Solaris, or HP-UX.
To create a Business Entity report using SoDA, use the procedure for your
version of the product:
- In a use-case diagram in Rational Rose, select the business entity you
want to document.
- Click Report > SoDA Report.
- When the list of available reports appears in SoDA, select Rational
Unified Process Business Entity Report. If this report is not on the
list, cancel and make sure you have a business entity selected in the
use-case diagram.
- Click OK to generate the report.
- From the FrameMaker button-bar, click New. Double-click SoDA,
then double-click RoseDomain and choose the RUPBusinessEntityReport.fm
template.
- Edit the Connector and enter the name of the model, package, and business
entity.
- Click File > Save As to save the template to a personal or
project directory. You may want to change the name of the template to
reflect the name of the business entity; for example, BoardingPassReport.fm.
- Click SoDA > Generate Document.
- Review the generated document.
The next time you want to generate this same document, simply open the
document and click SoDA > Generate Document.
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