Reporting

Tdyn includes a tool to comfortably create basic reports of the analysis. The reporting tool can be accessed through the menu option Utilities>Create Report. The Create report window (see Figure 117) creates an HTML file with a name problemname.html in the model directory, where problemname is the name of the model. The report can also be saved in a different directory by using the Export option.

In order to create a basic report, follow these steps:

1.      Insert the title of the report in the Title field (see Figure 117)

2.      Insert a description of the problem in the editor that can be opened by pressing Description button. The description will appear in the report below the title.

3.      Create a new report of the analysis by pressing Create.

4.      Inserts current view of the model at the end of the report by pressing Insert button in the insert current view frame. If necessary, fill the Caption field (see Figure 117). When inserting an image in the report with button Insert, caption is the text that appears just below the image describing it.

5.      Edit a text to be included in the report, by pressing Edit text. Inserts the text at the end of the report by pressing Insert button in the insert text frame.

6.      Repeat steps 4 and 5 as many times as necessary. Note that you can also insert preprocessing images, since Create report window is also available in the preprocessing mode.

   

Figure 117. Create report Menu and window.

Report Example

As an example, we will create a simple report including the results from this example. To do it, insert the text Advect Example in the Title field and press the Create button.

Then insert a global view of the model with the caption text General view of the model. Press the Edit text to open the text editor and insert this text: Transport of species is produced in this case by the advection in a fluid that is moving with a constant velocity given by the vector (1.0,1.0,0.0) m/s. Then press Insert button in the insert text frame to insert the text.

Finally you can view the resulting report by pressing View button (see Figure 118).

Figure 118. Created Example Report.