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Chapter 8: Viewing and Editing Projects, Sandboxes, and Members
About Graphs
Report Types
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Reporter’s data files (containing the results of its project or archive
analysis) can be saved as text files that can be read by most database
applications.
Reporter generates the following summaries:
changes introduced by individual authors
changes between the member revision and a revision with a particular
label
changes between the member revision and any other revision
a list of locked members and the names of users who locked them
a list of revisions with a particular label or state
project member history (including revision descriptions) by file
Whenever graphs are available in Reporter, you are given the option of
displaying the report in a text version (the default) or as a graph. If you
display a report as a graph, you can define how you want it to look. Using
graphs, you can give reports a custom look to suit your preferences or for
quick, project-specific identification.
Reporter allows you to generate different types of reports based on the
information Source Integrity maintains about project members and
revisions in the archives. Reporter can generate the following report types:
Changes Grouped by Author
This type of report lists changes to members or revisions grouped by the
person who made them. For example, if both Fred and Ethel made changes
to several members, the report would include two sections, one for Fred
and one for Ethel. Each section of the report shows:
name of the member
revision number of changed revisions
date the change was made
number of lines (or bytes for binary files) that were added or deleted
This type of report offers two additional options:
The report can be on a single, specified author, or all authors.
It can be restricted to changes made before or after a specified date.
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