# Chapter 41. The Project Report Plugin

The Project report plugin adds some tasks to your project which generate reports containing useful information about your build. Those tasks generate exactly the same content as the command line reports triggered by `gradle tasks`, `gradle dependencies` and `gradle properties` (see Section 11.6, “Obtaining information about your build”). In contrast to the command line reports, the report plugin generates the reports into a file. There is also an aggregating task that depends on all report tasks added by the plugin.

We plan to add much more to the existing reports and create additional ones in future releases of Gradle.

## 41.1. Usage

To use the Project report plugin, include in your build script:

    apply plugin: 'project-report'

## 41.2. Tasks

The project report plugin defines the following tasks:

Table 41.1. Project report plugin - tasks

Task name | Depends on | Type | Description
`dependencyReport` | - | `DependencyReportTask` | Generates the project dependency report.
`htmlDependencyReport` | - | `HtmlDependencyReportTask` | Generates an HTML dependency and dependency insight report for the project or a set of projects.
`propertyReport` | - | `PropertyReportTask` | Generates the project property report.
`taskReport` | - | `TaskReportTask` | Generates the project task report.
`projectReport` | `dependencyReport`, `propertyReport`, `taskReport`, `htmlDependencyReport` | `Task` | Generates all project reports.

## 41.3. Project layout

The project report plugin does not require any particular project layout.

## 41.4. Dependency management

The project report plugin does not define any dependency configurations.

## 41.5. Convention properties

The project report defines the following convention properties:

Table 41.2. Project report plugin - convention properties

Property name | Type | Default value | Description
`reportsDirName` | `String` | `reports` | The name of the directory to generate reports into, relative to the build directory.
`reportsDir` | `File` (read-only) | ``buildDir`/`reportsDirName`` | The directory to generate reports into.
`projects` | `Set<Project>` | `A one element set with the project the plugin was applied to.` | The projects to generate the reports for.
`projectReportDirName` | `String` | `project` | The name of the directory to generate the project report into, relative to the reports directory.
`projectReportDir` | `File` (read-only) | ``reportsDir`/`projectReportDirName`` | The directory to generate the project report into.

These convention properties are provided by a convention object of type `ProjectReportsPluginConvention`.