How to create your own report for Archi

Here is a attempt at clarifying the way to create your own report for Archi. This is obviously a work in progress intended to answer most common questions seen on forums.

So lets start with Frequently Asked Questions:

• What tool do I need ? Being based on JasperReport, you need either iReport or ReportStudio. Prior version 3.0, Archi uses a rather old version of libs so at the end I strongly recommend iReport v4.5.1. Started with Archi 3.0 you should be able to use any recent version of both tools.

• Should I start from scratch or use a kind of template ? You should definitly start using one of the 2 report templates comming with Archi. You can find them under Archi\plugins\com.archimatetool.jasperreports_*\reports. Copy one of them whatever you want and give the folder a new name.

• I've done some changes in the template, but how do I test it ? There's no obvious way for testing inside iReport or ReportStudio, the only way is to do if from Archi itself: just open some model, go to File > Report > Jasper..., define target (location, filename, title...), move on and choose Custom... on the drop down list to select report file named main.jrxml from your new report.