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Creating custom reports
In the Report Editor, you create report templates used to generate custom reports.
Report Editor
With the Report Editor, you can edit custom reports or templates or create a new report. Custom reports include any items that are available to a findings report, such as finding information, code snippets, AppScan® Source trace, and remediation content, as well as a vulnerability matrix. Before you start designing new reports, it is recommended that you become familiar with the report creation process by modifying an existing report template in the Report Editor.
Preview tab
You can preview AppScan® Source for Analysis reports as you edit your templates. From the Preview pane, click Preview to see the report for the open assessment.

Developing
Learn how to develop by using the product.
- Scanning source code and managing assessments
  This section explains how to scan your source code and manage assessments.
- Triage and analysis
  Grouping similar findings allows security analysts or IT auditors to segment and triage source code problems. This section explains how to triage AppScan® Source assessments and analyze results.
- AppScan® Source trace
  With AppScan® Source trace, you can verify input validation and encoding that meets your software security policies. You can look at the findings that produce input/output traces and mark methods as validation and encoding routines, sources or sinks, callbacks, or taint propagators.
- AppScan® Source for Analysis and defect tracking
  AppScan® Source for Analysis integrates with defect tracking systemsIBM® Rational Team Concert™ to deliver confirmed software vulnerabilities directly to the developer desktop. Defect submission to a defect tracking system contains a textual description of the bug and a file that contains only the findings submitted with the defect.
- Findings reports and audit reports
  Security analysts and risk managers can access reports of select findings or a series of audit reports that measure compliance with software security best practices and regulatory requirements. This section explains how to create reports of aggregate finding data.
- Creating custom reports
  In the Report Editor, you create report templates used to generate custom reports.
  - Report Editor
    With the Report Editor, you can edit custom reports or templates or create a new report. Custom reports include any items that are available to a findings report, such as finding information, code snippets, AppScan® Source trace, and remediation content, as well as a vulnerability matrix. Before you start designing new reports, it is recommended that you become familiar with the report creation process by modifying an existing report template in the Report Editor.
    - Report Layout tab
      The Report Layout Tab consists of Palette and Layout sections - and sections that allow you to specify a header or footer that appears on each page.
    - Categories tab
      Using the Categories tab, you can add categories that contain findings based on bundles, properties, or selected findings that you choose. The categories can then be used when adding certain items to the Layout. For example, when you add a Vulnerability Breakdown to the Layout, a table with a breakdown of the number of vulnerabilities in all categories (by severity and classification) is added to the layout. The Categories tab consists of a pane with a tree of categories and a pane in which to edit the attributes of the selected category. Each category contains the findings in the assessment that satisfy certain requirements that you define.
    - Preview tab
      You can preview AppScan® Source for Analysis reports as you edit your templates. From the Preview pane, click Preview to see the report for the open assessment.
  - Generating custom reports
    The procedures in this section's topics describe how to design and generate a report from an existing custom report. Alternatively, you can create a new report. To edit an existing report, open the report and follow the design, modification, and preview procedures.

Preview tab

You can preview AppScan® Source for Analysis reports as you edit your templates. From the Preview pane, click Preview to see the report for the open assessment.