The Impact Analysis Report provides a way to analyze the change impact to service objects due to updates to its related parts. Using this report, you can review the items in an Information Structure or Publication Structure that have been impacted by a part change and evaluate the changes that need to be made to each piece of content. You can generate this report for a specific part to understand the potential impact to service objects in case of a part change.

For example, if a part is associated with a group or section, the report displays the group as impacted. If the part is associated to a specific document, then the report displays that document as the only impacted object.

You can generate an impact analysis report at a later date after a part change. For example, a cosmetic change has been made to a part that impacts objects in a service structure. An illustrator, sure of an impact in a service object, can generate this report a week later to see the impacted service objects.

You can generate this report from the Structure tab of a part structure or the service structure browser page. The impacted service objects include XML, graphics, root of service structure, or groups or sections.

You can generate an impact analysis report for an entire service structure or a specific object in the structure. Use one of the following ways to generate an impact analysis report:

The Service Content Impact dialog box opens. It displays the following information: