Generating Documentation
MEGA offers several documentation tools that supplement description of models supplied as standard, providing a response to internal and external communication needs. Documentation is an essential task in modeling. A modeling approach does not simply consist of the presentation of schemas, however complete and accurate these may be.
These tools can be divided into three categories according to the type of document provided:
tools that generate documentation from repository data:
• Reports (MS Word)
• Analysis reports
• Report DataSets
• Web sites

The features covered here are available as standard, irrespective of options.

tools that store in
MEGA documents of which content is independent of the repository:
• External references
• Business documents
tools that enable creation of customized documentation: books can contain data generated by MEGA as well as data specific to the user.