Introduction to Documentation
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 sorted according to the type of document provided:
• tools that generate documentation from repository data:
• reports (MS Word)
• analysis reports
• Report DataSets
• Instant reports
• Web sites
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
Documents Generated From the Repository
HOPEX enables generation of several types of document from repository objects:
• reports (MS Word)
• analysis reports to study interactions between different repository objects.
See:• Report DataSets to create repository data tables, and from which create instant reports
• instant reports offering a statistical graphic analysis of the data of analyzed objects.
• web sites to generate a set of HTML pages that can be distributed on an Intranet.
In HOPEX (Web Front-End) you can customize your reports.