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Reports
This section describes how to generate reports from the scan results.
Template-based reports
The Template Based tab of the Create Report dialog box enables you to create reports in Microsoft® Word DOC and DOCX formats, with exactly the data you want, and the document formatting you define.
Creating a custom report template
You can use field codes for defining your own custom reports to generate in MS Word.
Introduction to "merge fields"

Reports
This section describes how to generate reports from the scan results.
- Report overview
- Security reports
  The Security report provides information about security issues discovered, and you can choose from a variety of templates depending on the type of content you need.
- Industry Standard and Compliance reports
  Industry Standards reports let you know if your application complies with standards of a selected industry committee; Regulatory Compliance reports let you know if your application complies with specific regulations or legal standards.
- Delta Analysis reports
  The Delta Analysis report compares two sets of scan results and shows the difference in URLs and/or security issues that were discovered in them.
- Template-based reports
  The Template Based tab of the Create Report dialog box enables you to create reports in Microsoft® Word DOC and DOCX formats, with exactly the data you want, and the document formatting you define.
  - Creating a custom report template
    You can use field codes for defining your own custom reports to generate in MS Word.
    - Introduction to "merge fields"
    - Custom template tutorial
      This section describes how to make a simple custom template.
    - Tag hierarchy
    - Repeaters and fields
    - Field filters
  - Importing a custom template

Introduction to "merge fields"

AppScan® Merge fields fall into two categories:

Repeaters (or loops): These consist of a Start and an End tag. They do not produce any data themselves, but they "loop through" any plain fields placed between the Start and End tags, and draw the relevant data for these groups.
Example: <<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterStart>> <<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterEnd>>
This repeater loops through all IssueTypes in the scan results.
Plain fields: These consist of a single field, and they produce the actual data. (Plain fields do not necessarily have to be placed within a repeater, but they cannot have other plain fields as "children".)
Example: <<AS:IssueTypeName>>
This field represents the names of all issues found in the scan.

When you insert a plain field between the Start and End tags of an appropriate loop, a report can be created. Using the two examples above, we can create a report of all the IssueTypes found by the scan:


<<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterStart>>
 <<AS:IssueTypeName>>
<<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterEnd>>

To better understand how this works in practice, see the Custom template tutorial following.

Note: A complete list of valid merge fields can be opened by clicking Tools > Report > Template Based > View Field Reference.