Documentation Generation

Design and generate professional documentation in PDF, MS Word 2007 and HTML formats. Keeping database, program and technical specification up-to-date with minimal effort.

Report template designer
Design your own report template with visual template designer. The latest version has added a lot of customizable elements and increased in usability. The following movie shows you how to use report template designer to design your own report template.

Generating PDF report
Smart Development Environment for NetBeans supports generating design blueprints to PDF files. The paper size, cover page design, TOC, page header and footer are all customizable. You may select to include/exclude diagrams and model elements, and reorder the content. There are various options to control the styles and formatting of the generated PDF. The PDF generation feature is available in Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix platform.

Generating MS Word 2007 report
Generate UML design to report in Microsoft Word 2007 format. The MS Word 2007 report generation feature is available in Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix platforms. The latest version supports specifying MS Word document as template.

Generating HTML report
Smart Development Environment for NetBeans supports generating design blueprints to HTML report. The customization capability and output format are similar to PDF report. The front page design, TOC, page header and footer are all customizable. You may select to include/exclude diagrams and model elements, and reorder the content. There are various options to control the styles and formatting of the generated HTML reported. The HTML generation feature is available in Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix platform.

Publishing project to web server
The sharing of latest and accurate business process and system design to customer, team member or other department staff greatly increases the efficiency of communications. Smart Development Environment for NetBeans supports publishing project to web enabled format. The published content contains all information in the project, including documentation, detail property, internal references and external references of each diagram and model element. The published content incorporates some navigation functions to increase the usability such as jump to shape, open reference and popup documentation when mouse over the element. There is no special requirement in both server and client side. Project Publisher can run with system job scheduler to publish and upload project(s) in regular bases.

Ad hoc report creation
Write report with your own format, style and layout. Smart Development Environment for NetBeans supports report creation by report writer.


