Generating Report with and without Update
All the information for the documentation is stored in a data
set named _DEFINE which is which is located in the output library.
The information is gathered from the input datasets and also
updated and edited by the user. The data definition
documentation can be generated by clicking on the
"Generate" button. In this case, no updates will
be performed on the _DEFINE dataset. Updates occur through
the editing or refreshing process of the definition.
The output is specified in the "Output File"
parameter in the following format.
- XLS - Excel spreadsheet used to edit and re-imported for
documentation
- RTF - Rich text format which can be read into MSWord
- PDF - Standard DEFINE.PDF format
- XML - XML along with accompanying style sheet is produced
It is optional to generate a blank Excel spreadsheet to be able
to enter values from scratch. In this case, you can specify
the file BLANK.XLS. The new files will contain the proper
header. After this spreadsheet has been filled out, it can
be re-imported back to Definedoc via the import button.
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