CHAPTER 13 CREATING REPORTS USING REPORT BUILDER 1.0, 2.0, AND 3.0
Entities are the report model’s table equivalent, and attributes are conceptually the fields or columns
defined within the entities.
The following are all the rules for the first pass of generating the model and are selectable in the
Report Model Wizard:- Create Entities for All Tables
- Create Entities for Non-empty Tables
- Create Count Aggregates
- Create Attributes
- Create Attributes for Non-empty Columns
- Create Attributes for Auto-increment Columns
- Create Date Variations
- Create Numeric Aggregates
- Create Date Aggregates
- Create Time Aggregates
- Create Roles
This pass processes all rules up to Create Roles. You will also see a helpful description for each rule, as
shown in Figure 13-14.Figure 13-14. Model generation rules with descriptions