Customizing BIRT reports for UPIA models

Several Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) report designs predefined for various DoDAF views are available in this product. You can modify the report design file and its associated properties resource file to meet your business needs.

Before you begin

First, copy a UPIA report into your workspace.
Note: If you customized a UPIA report design in an earlier release, the stereotypes in the report might refer to the UPDM profile. Because the auto-migration tool migrates models using the UPDM profile to the UPIA profile, those report designs no longer work in the current release. For each report design, you must find all of the UPDM profile references and change them to the UPIA profile. You can use the Report Design editor to change profile references. You can also open the report design file with a text editor, change the profile reference from "pathmap://UPDM_HOME/UPDM.epx" to "pathmap://UPIA_HOME/UPIA.epx," and then change all occurrences of "UPDM::" to "UPIA::".

About this task

To customize an existing BIRT report design template, you open the report design and modify it in the BIRT report designer.

Procedure

  1. To copy a report into your workspace to customize it, click Window > Show View > Report Explorer.
  2. Expand the UPIA Reports category, right-click a report; then click Copy.
  3. In the Report Explorer view, right-click a UPIA category, and click Paste.
  4. Switch to the Report Design view: click Window > Open Perspective > Other > Report Design; then click OK.
  5. In the Navigator view, navigate to the saved UPIA report file. BIRT report designs have RPTDESIGN as a file name extension.
  6. Right-click a BIRT-based UPIA report design; then click Open.
  7. For detailed instructions on using the report designer to modify the report design, see the online help on BIRT reports in "Publishing and generating reports on models."

What to do next

To run the report on a UPIA model, open the Modeling perspective and open the Report configurations wizard by clicking Run > Report > Report Configurations. Create a new report configuration and choose the workspace version of the customized report instead of the built-in version.

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