TestStand Report Customization

I'm using TestStand 3.5 and LabVIEW8. In a related exercise, I found that the file StationGlobals.ini contains a number of configurable options. I used the TestStand sequence editor to update the Station Globals (I added some custom items). I was able to use the Sequence Context control in LabVIEW (from the TestStand palette) combined with the TestStand Get Property Value.vi, to read some of these custom properties.
I'd like to do similar things for reports. I see the Report Options in TestStand's sequence editor. What I'm wondering is if there is a similar .ini file and if there is a control in LabVIEW (i.e. TestStand Pallete) to access the various report options, thus allowing some report customization. Any examples would be most appreciated. Thanks.

There is TestStandModelReportOptions.ini that has the station defaults and definitions. Report options are local variables in the process model. For the Sequential Model, that's in the execution entry points Test UUTs and Single Pass and there is a sequence in each called Get Report Options that reads the ini file and updates the local variable. The report options is a container that is passed to TestReport Callback so you can read and modify the options in the report generation sequence itself or if you want to access them from a test sequence in either a function call or VI, you can reference RunState.Root.Locals.ReportOptions.(whatever).

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Here is a Developer Zone article that should help get your starting with understanding how report generation works: Report Generation Explained .
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If you are using an HTML report, please see the following knowledge base article for information about how to customize your header information: Modifying HTML Report Headers to Include Custom Information in TestStand .
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Find attached an example using the MultipleNumericLimitTest step type.
All it does is use the array found in Locals call Digital as the DataSource for the Limits. You can check this by selecting the step and doing a right mouse click - select Edit Limits. Then select the Data source Tab. I have add 16 Measurements, one for each of the array elements.
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Sequence_File1.seq ‏26 KB

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Raj - Thanks for the response and that solution does work. The problem is that the graphs that I am including are more elaborate than what TestStand is doing by default. Some of the graphs will have three traces on them to show spectral masks test with lower and upper limits. These graphs will also be used in reports and I would like them to show up larger, kind of like when you have a graph in Labview and you can use its reference to save it to an HTML report.
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Hello, J.Venkatesh!
In the future, we'd really appreciate it if you'd create new forum threads for new questions - this allows us to better manage the forums and gives our users the ability to search for questions by forum thread/topic!
That being said, the solution provided by Matt P. in 2004 still applies to you. Even though you're using a TestStand XML report and a LabVIEW Array instead of a LabVIEW table, you can still embed HTML tags into the XML report. Simply index into and parse your LabVIEW array into strings, include the appropriate HTML table tags and then pass this HTML string back to TestStand. This string can then be placed into the Step.Result.ReportText field of any step and will be formatted into a table, as you desire.
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Hello,
You should have a look a these documents:
http://digital.ni.com/manuals.nsf/websearch/2B14FB1CD4FF25CA862577AE00554FC7
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