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

Tag hierarchy

When creating reports using AppScan® tags you may want to place one tag "within" another. For example, you may want a separate section for each Issue Type, and within each section a list of Issues, and for each issue a list of Variants. To do this you place the start and end tags for the "child" within the start and end tags for the "parent", as shown in the figure following.

The following repeater (loop) hierarchies are allowed:

Issue Type > Issue > Variant
Remediation Type > Remediation
Vulnerable URL > Issue Type > Issue > Variant
Remediation > Issue Type > Issue > Variant

Repeaters should be used either alone, or in one of these hierarchies. Using the repeaters in hierarchies other than these may result in an error when the report is created.

See also:

Repeaters and fields