Report Packages in Enterprise Architect

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What is the difference between the stereotype "master document" and "report package" in Enterprise Architect? I will be generating a document from multiple model documents and I want to organize them better to mimic the structure of the resulting document. I thought creating "report packages" would do this for me, but whenever I go to generate a document from the "master document" it does not go into the "report packages" and run the model documents contained.

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Which version of EA are you using? – Mart10
@MartinGrégoire 13, but I'm still wondering what additional functionality a report package has over the deprecated master document. – Miftis
I have updated my answer following Geert's Comment, what's weird is that report packages provide less functionality. I have my thoughts on why that is, but this is not the place for this – Mart10

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Master Documents are deprecated as of Version 12.1. Source
The main difference with Report Packages being that Report Packages do not have the RTFTemplate TaggedValue.
Otherwise they function the same.

I suggest on using Report Packages as Master Documents are being deprecated.

To produce virtual documents, create a report package and place your model documents in them Assign a template to each of your model documents(in the taggedvalues)
The order in which your Model documents generate is the order in which they appear in the Project Browser

Once your report package is complete you can right-click it to generate documentation, you don't need to change the template(Model Report) to generate it

Virtual documents documentation(EA13): http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/enterprise_architect_user_guide/13.0/model_publishing/virtualdocuments.html