10-10-2013 дата публикации
Номер: US20130265326A1
Computer software is disclosed for discovering and representing a reporting model of an existing reporting environment. For each report in a plurality of reports, the software searches metadata of the report for descriptive information and dependencies on other reports. The software depicts, in a graphical representation, each report and relationships between the reports. 1. A computer-implemented method for representing a plurality of related reports , the method comprising:determining, by operation of one or more computer processors, that metadata associated with a first report in the plurality of related reports contains a reference to a second report in the plurality of related reports; andcreating, by operation of the one or more computer processors, a graphical representation for display on a display device, the graphical representation depicting each of the plurality of related reports, including the first and second reports, and, based on the determined reference, a relationship between the first and second reports.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:identifying, by operation of the one or more computer processors, one or more descriptive elements in the metadata associated with the first report; andannotating the depiction of the first report in the graphical representation with the one or more descriptive elements.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein each of the one or more descriptive elements is selected from the group consisting of: an attribute within the first report claim 2 , a chart type within the first report claim 2 , a filter applied to an attribute within the first report claim 2 , and a transformation applied to an attribute within the first report.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the relationship between the first and second reports comprises the first report having a dependency on the second report.5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the dependency is such that the first report always retrieves information from the second report ...
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