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. The Business Entity Report can be generated by SoDA either with the Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker versions of the product.

Related Rational Unified Process™ information:

• Report: Business Entity
• Artifact: Business Entity

Overview

This tool mentor is applicable when running Windows 98, Windows 2000, NT 4.0, or UNIX.

To create a Business Entity report using SoDA, choose one of the following options:

1. Use Rational SoDA/Word to generate a Business Entity Report
2. Use Rational SoDA/FrameMaker to generate a Business Entity Report

1. Use Rational SoDA/Word to generate a Business Entity Report

1. From Rational Rose, in a diagram click on the business entity you wish to document.
2. Select Report => SoDA Report.
3. From the list of available reports, select Rational Unified Process Business Entity Report. If you do not see that report, cancel and make sure you have a business entity selected in your use-case diagram.
4. Click OK.
5. Review the generated report.

2. Use Rational SoDA/FrameMaker to generate a Business Entity Report

1. From the FrameMaker program, select File=>New. Click on SoDA, then the Rational RoseTemplates, then RationalUnifiedProcessBusiness EntityReport.fm.
2. Edit the Connector and enter the name of the model file and the name of the business entity.
3. Use File=>Save As to save the template to a personal or project directory. You may wish to change the name of the template to reflect the name of the business entity, such as BoardingPassReport.doc
4. Select SoDA=>Generate Document.
5. Review the generated document.

The next time you want to generate this same document, simply open the document and select SoDA=>Generate Document.

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