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Showing links, full resolution diagrams, and allow activity diagrams in the Rational Rhapsody ReportPLUS output

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Question

How to show links, full resolution diagrams and allow activity diagrams in the IBM Rational Rhapsody ReportPlus output?

Cause

When you use the "FullDetailedProjectReport.tpl" template in ReporterPlus you will notice that the Activity Diagrams from the project are not included. In addition, the ability to navigate from a diagram symbol to it's properties is also not possible. To summarize the following was not possible:

  1. Activity Diagrams don't show up in the output.
  2. No Full Resolution, the diagram are scaled and unreadable.
  3. No links to pictures/diagrams in the output.

Answer

To address the above three items one can the suggestions outlined below:

  1. Use the "Rhapsody HTML Exporter.tpl" template, which will provide you with the necessary activity diagrams from your model.
  2. To get the diagrams to scale to a readable size and appear more like they appear in Rhapsody there is a feature that we can set. The following steps will provide you with the necessary steps:
    a) Right-click the Project level in the Rhapsody browser and select "Features..."
    b) Select the "Properties" tab
    c) Beside "View Common" select the drop down list and select "All"
    d) Navigate to General -> Graphics
    e) In the "Graphics" section there is a property called "ExportedDiagramScale". Set this to "NoPagination"
    f) Click OK
    g) Run ReporterPLUS again.
  3. To be able to navigate to the various diagram elements in a diagram by clicking on the names of the elements you need to carry out the following:
    a) Edit your rhapsody.ini file (located in you Rhapsody Install folder)
    b) Add the following lines:

    [ReporterPLUS]
    EnableLoadOptions=TRUE
    LoadImageMaps=TRUE

    c) Save the file
    d) Restart Rhapsody
    e) Re-run reporter plus using the "Rhapsody HTML Exporter.tpl" template.

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Product Synonym

Rational Rhapsody

Document Information

Modified date:
27 May 2022

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