Common Features : Managing Documentation : Generating Documentation : Introduction to Documentation Tools
   
Introduction to Documentation Tools
HOPEX 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
*See "Documents Generated From the Repository".
*The features covered here are available as standard, irrespective of options.
• tools that store in HOPEX documents of which content is independent of the repository:
• External references
• Business documents
*See "Using External References", page 419 and "Using Business Documents", page 427.
• tools that enable creation of customized documentation: books can contain data generated by HOPEX as well as data specific to the user.
*See "Using Books", page 409.