How does the generate report based on selected items work?

Hi Gene,

Basically, you just need to select your use cases in the main list view using multi-select techniques (Ctrl+click to select individual items, or Shift+click to select a range).  Then run the report with that option selected.  Where you might run into problems is when the main loop of the report doesn't match the type of selected items you give to the report.  For example, the Project Specification report loops through all the packages.  If you tell that report to run against selected use cases, it will look for packages in the selected items, and not finding any, will generate an empty report.

Not sure if this is the problem you are running into.  If not, feel free to send us your custom report and we can take a look to see what the problem might be (note that these forums are public, so please open a support ticket if you want to keep the report private).

Is it possible to save the selected items for future use? I have a report I run regularly with the same 100 test cases. Instead of individually selecting them every time, it would be useful to have a method to save the chosen ones or tag them in some way and then create the report with selected items based on the tag. The way this database was constructed, it is not possible to put them all in a separate package.

Regarding saving the selected items for future use, yes, starting in CaseComplete Professional version 13 you can flag items. You would then be able to sort the list by the flag column so all flagged items are grouped together, then multi-select those to use as input to the report. For test scenarios you would do this in a filter tab that shows test scenarios. More information about flags.