Quick Report

Quick Report writes a finished document from the analysis pages you already have open. Each Data Viewer page becomes one section of the report, every chart on that page is rendered into the document, and the result is saved as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF or HTML.

It is the fastest route from a screen full of results to something you can hand over, and it needs no preparation beyond having the analyses on screen.

Before you start

• At least one Data Viewer page must be open and contain charts. Quick Report draws its sections from those pages; with none open the toolbar Report button stays greyed out.
• Bring each page into the state you want to deliver. Axis ranges, units, dB reference, colour maps, cursors and the footer line are all captured as they appear, so adjust them before you generate.
• Optional: set Settings → Files & Folders → Reports & exports folder so the Save dialog opens in the right place.

Step by step

1. Click the Report button in the main toolbar, or use Start Menu → Report → Quick Report.
2. Pick a Template, or leave it on (No template — manual sections) to use the page titles as they are.
3. Type a Title and an Author. Both appear on the cover page.
4. Tick the pages you want in the Sections list, and reorder them with Move Up / Move Down.
5. Choose a Format.
6. Click Generate, confirm the file name and folder, and wait for the confirmation message showing where the file was written.

Dialog options

How sections are built

One ticked page produces one section. Inside it, every chart cell of that page is rendered into the report with the same footer text shown under the chart in the application, in the layout order of the page. A page holding a colour map with inline sections is exported as a unit, so the map and its section plots stay together rather than being scattered across the document.

Without a template, the section heading is the page title. With a template, the heading follows the template's title pattern and the template's narrative text is inserted under the heading — see Report Templates for the pattern syntax and the available data variables.

Tips and common pitfalls

• The Report button is greyed out. No Data Viewer page is open. Run or open an analysis first — Quick Report reports on results, not on raw files. For files that have not been analysed yet, use Batch Report.
• Move Up / Move Down appears to do nothing. They act on the entry that currently has keyboard focus. Click the tick box of the entry you want to move first, then press the button.
• Nothing happens on Generate. At least one section must be ticked; a message appears if the list is empty.
• A chart is missing from the report. Empty cells produce nothing. Confirm the page really draws the curve on screen before generating.
• Characters that Windows forbids in file names are replaced with an underscore in the suggested name, so a title such as Run-up 1000/min is offered as Run-up 1000_min.
• Reports with many colour maps take a moment to render; the dialog stays disabled with a wait cursor until the file has been written. A message box confirms the full output path when it is done.
• Generating the same pages twice in different formats is perfectly normal — for example PDF for the archive and PowerPoint for the review meeting.

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