Tool Mentor: Creating a Business Use-Case Realization Report Using Rational SoDA
Purpose
This tool mentor describes how to use Rational SoDA to create a Business Use-Case Realization Report. SoDA automates the generation of the report so that it is created quickly and accurately. You can generate a Business Use-Case Realization Report with either the Microsoft® Word® or Adobe® FrameMaker® version of the product.
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Overview
This tool mentor is applicable when running Windows 2000, NT 4.0, Windows XP, Solaris, or HP-UX.
To create a Business Use-Case Realization report using Rational SoDA, use the procedure for your version of the product:
- Use Rational SoDA/Word to generate a Business Use-Case Realization Report
- Use Rational SoDA/FrameMaker to generate a Business Use-Case Realization Report
Use Rational SoDA/Word to generate a Business Use-Case
Realization Report 
- In the use-case diagram in Rational Rose, select the use case you want to document.
- Click Report > SoDA Report.
- When the list of available reports appears in SoDA, select Rational Unified Process Business Use-Case Realization Report. If this report is not on the list, cancel and make sure you have a use case selected in the use-case diagram.
- Click OK to generate the report.
Use Rational SoDA/FrameMaker to generate a Business Use-Case
Realization Report
- From the FrameMaker button bar, click New. Double-click SoDA, then double-click RoseDomain and choose the Rational RoseTemplates, then RUPBusinessUseCaseRealizationReport.fm template.
- Edit the Connector and enter the name of the model file, package, and use case.
- Click File > Save As to save the template to a personal or project directory. You may want to change the name of the template to reflect the name of the use case; for example, ConductTransactionsReport.fm.
- Click SoDA > Generate Document.
- Review the generated document.
The next time you want to generate this same document, simply open the
document and click SoDA > Generate Document.
