The reports swimlane contains actions representing reporting. These report actions only have incoming flows coming from MRS or screens (customer screen) and outgoing flow going to sub report.

Figure 1 : AS_REPORTS Swimlane

Design items

 Report.

 Control flow.

Report item.

• Origin

 A report corresponding to a report file.

• Tagged value

• filename

Tagged value applied on a report. It specifies the name of the file generated by the report action.

• format

Tagged value applied on a report. It specifies the report type through an enumeration. Possible format types:

• PDF 
• EXCEL
• HTML : unavailable
• CVS : unavailable
• toSave

Tagged value applied on a flow. It specifies if the document must be saved on the hard disk through an enumeration. Possible exception types:

• true
• false
• Pin in

A report action accepts List type pin in as datasource. Additional types of pin in must be stereotyped « report_param ».

• Pin out

A report item has no pin out

• Incoming flow

Comes from an item in the server swimlane

• Outgoing flow

Only goes to a report action (sub report).

• Rules
  • A report action must be stereotyped « REPORT ».
  • A report action is contained inside « AS_REPORTS » stereotyped swimlane.

• Example

Figure 2 Report example