Creating custom reports

In the Report Editor, you create report templates used to generate custom reports.

An AppScan® Source Findings Report or AppScan Source report may not provide the exact data that you need; you may require that your report contains more or less information. The AppScan Source for Analysis Report Editor allows you to create custom reports.

Typically, you create a custom report when you must:

• Produce a report that maps to and reports on a unique security policy. You first create a custom report, and then apply the report to a specific assessment.
• Define and produce a report to highlight unique findings and characteristics.
• Modify or add to an existing report.

When you save the report template to <data_dir>\reports (where <data_dir> is the location of your AppScan Source program data, as described in Installation and user data file locations), the report is available for assessments of any application. When saved to the directory of a particular application, the report is available for scans of that application or any of its projects.

Before you begin creating or editing an AppScan Source report, familiarize yourself with the report types and the elements that comprise each report. When you create a custom report, you can map report elements in any order. Report elements include finding information, code snippets, traces, and remediation content, as well as text and graphical elements.