Managing reports

SECollab lets you create reports from existing report templates. A report is the application of a report template on a given scope of all the data your project has. This provides common reporting among all the data in your projects.

4 types of report templates are available:

• Pie Chart
• Horizontal Bar Chart
• Traceability Matrix
• Traceability Table

When browsing a report querying traceability relationships, this view helps understanding which links are missing.

Please check Managing Report Templates for more details about report template types.

Horizontal Bar and Pie Charts Reports

Creating Horizontal Bar or Pie Charts Reports

To create chart Reports, go to the banner's "Reports" tab:

• Click the "+ Create report" button
• Set a title and select a matching report template
• Select all designs that queries within this report should be restricted to

Visualizing Horizontal Bar or Pie Chart reports

To visualize a report, click on any matching report in the "Report" tab. The screen will then split up in 2 parts:

• the chapters are rendered in the left part of the screen, displaying their title, description, and a chart that renders the synthesized groups.
• when clicking on a group (typically "matching" and "not matching"), all source resources will be listed in a table in the right part of the screen. If clicking the "matching" group, then all resources will have their one or many corresponding target resources listed.

Traceability Matrix Reports

Creating reports from Traceability Matrix Template

If the template is displaying a matrix, you have to select:

• Rows input Design, compatible with the row type and filter optionally the resource type
• Columns input Design, compatible with the column type and filter optionally the resource type

Visualizing Matrix reports

To visualize a matrix report, click on any matrix report in the "Report" tab. The screen will then display a matrix:

• rows and columns are displaying a default label for any displayed resource
• cells of the matrix display any existing link between row and column resources as a checked cell
• when clicking on a cell, a creation dialog allwoing to add a new link specified by the matrix definition is displayed
• row and column labels can be configured by editing the properties to display
• row and column textual filters allows to quickly filter using a search pattern the displayed resources from their labels
• 2 filters allows to quickly filter empty rows or columns to display only on existing links

Exporting Traceability Matrix reports to Excel

You can export the Matrix report as an Excel file trough the top right menu of the matrix view. You can specify additional attributes for row and column headers.

The export process is an asynchronous activity and you can download the Excel report file from the Activities page once the activity completed.

Traceability Table Reports

Creating reports from Traceability Table Template

If the template is displaying a Traceability Table, you have to select:

• Input Design, compatible with the initial table type

Visualizing Traceability Table reports

To visualize a Traceability Table report, click on any Traceability Table report in the "Report" tab. The screen will then display a table:

• each column is displaying the target objects computed from the source input.
• each footer cell is displaying both coverage metrics between source and target objects and which data source has been used for the column metric

Exporting Traceability Table reports to Excel

You can export the Traceability Table view as an Excel file trough the top right menu of the table view. You can specify additional attributes for row and column headers.

The export process is an asynchronous activity and you can download the Excel report file from the Activities page once the activity completed.