Content matrix

Component documentation

• Components documentation for Report Generator 1.13.0
  • Text components available for Report Generator 1.13.0
  • Graph components for Report Generator 1.13.0
  • Table components for Report Generator 1.13.0
  • Generic components in Report Generator 1.13.0

1.13.0-funcrel

Resolved issues

No customer bugs reported for fix in this release.

Updates

Report Generator CLI tool updates

CLI tool name change

The Report Generator CLI tool has been renamed in ≥ 1.13.0 as follows, therefore you should update any batch files that you routinely use:

Return codes updated

CLI tool return codes have been updated in ≥ 1.13.0 to show positive numbers instead of negative:

1.13.0-beta2

Resolved issues

No customer bugs reported for fix in this release.

Updates

Microsoft Excel compliance report improvements

Microsoft Excel compliance reports have been improved in comparison to the same reports provided in beta1.

Custom Expressions

The CUSTOM_EXPRESSIONS parameter added for various components types in 1.12.0 have been updated and now function correctly when any language is selected in the GUI using Settings > Language.

Table component updates

• QUALITY_STANDARDS_EVOLUTION, options added:
  • EVOLUTION=true|false to display added and removed violations columns. By default or if it does not exist, this is set to true if there is a previous snapshot.
  • HEADER=NO to not display headers (useful for Excel reports when you want to define your own customized headers). By default if the option is not present or set to something other than NO, headers are displayed.
• LIST_RULES_VIOLATIONS_BOOKMARKS, options added:
  • WITHCODELINES = Y|N, by default (or option not present) source code is displayed, if you don’t want to see it, set this option to N.
  • HEADER=NO to not display headers (useful for Excel reports when you want to define your own customized headers). By default if the option is not present or set to something other than NO, headers are displayed to not display source content.
• QUALITY_TAGS_RULES_EVOLUTION, options added:
  • DESC=true|false. For display rationale, description and remediation of the rule. By default or if it does not exist, it is set to false.
  • HEADER=NO to not display headers (useful for Excel reports when you want to define your own customized headers). By default if the option is not present or set to something other than NO, headers are displayed.
• RULE_IMPROVEMENT_OPPORTUNITY, options added:
  • CRITICAL=Y|N - add this option to add a column displaying whether the rule is flagged as critical or not
• RULES_LIST_STATISTICS_RATIO, options added:
  • DESC=true|false. For display rationale, description and remediation of the rule. By default or if it does not exist, it is set to false.
  • HEADER=NO to not display headers (useful for Excel reports when you want to define your own customized headers). By default if the option is not present or set to something other than NO, headers are displayed.
  • EVOLUTION=true|false to display added and removed violations columns. By default or if it does not exist, this is set to true if there is a previous snapshot.

New table components

• LIST_RULES_VIOLATIONS_BOOKMARKS_TABLE for Excel reports to list violations with bookmarks without source code for a list of rules by Business Criteria/Technical Criteria/Rule/Quality Standards tags.
  • METRICS=List of metrics id (Business Criteria, Technical Criteria or Rule) or quality standards tags separated by ‘|’.
  • CRITICAL=true : add this option if you have selected a Business Criteria or a Technical Criteria and want only critical rules to be selected (by default this is set to false). This option has no effect on selection by rule or quality standard tag.
  • COUNT=N where N indicates the top number of violations ; by default 5 (-1 correspond to all violations). All bookmarks of a violation are displayed.
  • HEADER=NO to not display headers (useful for Excel reports when you want to define your own customized headers). By default if the option is not present or set to something other than NO, headers are displayed.

1.13.0-beta1

Resolved issues

No customer bugs reported for fix in this release.

Updates

.NET Core 3.0.x required

This release of Report Generator and Report Generator for Dashboards require a manual installation of .NET Core 3.0.x (minimum)

New report templates

New report templates for specific security standards such as CISQ and CWE have been introduced in this beta release for Microsoft Word and Excel specifically to display more violations:

• Microsoft Word templates - violations limited to 50 in this beta. These reports are typically named "Detailed Report", e.g.: CISQ Detailed Report.docx
• Microsoft Excel templates - all violations displayed. These reports are typically named "Full Detailed Report" e.g.: CISQ Security Full Detailed Report.xlsx.

The following table lists all the templates available in this release. The column Comments provides information about the changes applied: